The Glass Menagerie: Internal War
.... footsteps” (7). No matter how much he tries to be better than his father is he ends up walking out just like him.
Amanda is the one that tries to control Tom and burden him with all the responsibilities. She is constantly nagging him about what he does and how he does it. She tells him to “eat food leisurely, son, and really enjoy it” (1.8-9) when he eats his dinner. She confiscates books by Mr. Lawrence from his room because she “won’t allow such filth brought into [her] house” (3.16). Tom’s smoking habit gives Amanda one more reason to gripe at Tom while he is at home. The expectation of Tom is to work and pay the bills .....
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Of Mice And Men: Life, Dreams And Friendship Of George And Lenny
.... No mess at all, and when the end of the month come I could take my fifty bucks and go into town and get whatever I want.” George feels the responsibility to his Aunt Clara. Also while talking to other ranchers George reflects on a time when he and Lennie were working together for the first time. George told Lennie to jump into the lake, he did and nearly drowned. George jumped in and saved him. Lennie was so grateful that he had forgotten that George was the one who told him to jump in. George knows how feeble minded and kind Lennie is and that he needs supervision. Probably if Lennie didn’t need as much supervision thay wouldn .....
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The Swimmer: Themes Of Loss And Social Status
.... to seem rude but he did not have the time to stay. He swam across the pool, spoke with them for a few moments and then moved on to the next pool.
Men and women were gathered together drinking at the Bunker’s house for a small poolside party at Merrill’s next stop. Once again, the hostess Enid Bunker, is happy to see Merrill drop by unexpectedly and leads him straight to the bar for a drink where “a smiling bartender he had seen at a hundred parties gave him a gin and tonic.” (Cheever 285). Anxious not to get stuck in any conversation that would delay his voyage, Merrill heads for the pool, dives in, and swims to the end. Merr .....
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The Catbird Seat: Mr. Martin
.... she quoted, “If you weren’t such a drab, ordinary little man, I’d think you planned it all.”
The most vivid quality Mr. Martin depicts within the story is his psychological attributes. Mr. Martin had a head for dates when reviewing past events, which would suggest that he was quite organized. Another trait that may suggest that he was organized is how he followed a daily routine. The author follows many of his tasks with “as always” or “as usual”, to show the reader how organized Mr. Martin was. “He got there, as he always did, at eight o’clock. He finished his dinner and the financial page of the Sun at a quarter to nine .....
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“Minds Eye At Work”
.... The author to be a disheartened, lonely woman, who had changed from a flourishing singer to a desolate housewife, portrayed Minnie. Clues found throughout the house pointed every finger at Minnie, but it was never stated directly in the story. The reasoning for the lack of a frank conclusion is that by the end of the story the reader has determined the outcome.
“Taking Care” by Joy Williams is certainly a story that the writer leaves the ending open for all interpretations. Throughout the story, the writer creates a setting of sadness and despair. References to his ill wife, the dead rabbit, and the daughter abandoning her .....
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Forrest Gump
.... sixteen, a guy stopped him on his way home from “nut school” and asked him why he had not seen him around before. The next week, he was taken out of that school and placed in a public high school so he could play football. He was six foot six and weighed 245 pounds. Forrest led his team to a state championship and made the All State Football team. In addition, Forrest always says, “I got to pee.” whenever he is in front of an audience such as at the All State banquet and in front of the President when he accepts his Congressional Medal of Honor. During his last year of high school, he was drafted into the Army. He was tem .....
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In The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn And The Poem Cafe: Natural Laws Over Man Laws
.... morals people had. Huck lived with the Miss Watson, he did not live with his parents because his father was an alcoholic and we do not know where his mother is. His father was in and out of town. Nobody really knew where he was and if he was alive or not. Huck has an imagination, yet he is very level headed. He knows what is right and wrong but he is also very impressionable. What people say influence him a lot. An example of this is when he knew that Tom’s plan for attacking the Sunday school picnic was wrong but he still went along with it, to be accepted. Tom is Huck’s best friend. He is hard to influence and is always .....
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The Great Gatsby: Doubleness
.... was a handsome, charming man, but one who seemed more interested in the family name than in hard work.
The McQuillan and the Fitzgerald in Scott vied for control throughout his childhood. He was a precocious child, full of energy and imagination, but he liked to take short cuts, substituting flights of fantasy for hard work. On his seventh birthday in 1903 he told a number of the older guests that he was the owner of a yacht (perhaps the seeds of Gatsby's admiration for Dan Cody's yacht in the novel). As an adolescent he loved to play theatrical games--pretending to be drunk on a streetcar or telephoning an artificial limb comp .....
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The Catcher In The Rye: Holden Was A Twisted Individual
.... about things like this and get depressed. Most young adults think about it and become sad and move on. Holden has trouble letting go of things
Holden has such a twisted mind that he thinks his teacher Mr. Antolini is gay and a pass at him. This happened when Mr. Antolini try to make Holden feel better about his life and then Mr. Antolini touch him and Holden mistook this as a sign of homosexuality. Mr. Antolini was only trying to be kind. The reason for Holden being so irrational is that he had too much liquor.
Holden was a young man who had a twisted view on life. Holden viewpoints make him an odd person to most average .....
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Fallen Angels: Richie Perry
.... VC popping up and him not being ready to fire. By him wiping his hand on his fatigues shows how incredibly apprehensive and nervous he was. After one of Richie’s fellow platoon members got killed, the entire company was in mourning. Richie was going over to one of the men and saw him crying. When he saw this he decided not to talk to him and turned around and walked away. The reason for this was because Richie didn’t want to insult his friend by seeing him cry. This is an example showing how respectful Richie is.
Another way Myers shows Richie’s character is through his thoughts. On the plain, on his way over to Vietnam, .....
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Wuthering Heights: Negativity In Domesticity
.... many years, but the domestic norms forced her to marry Edgar Linton because he was an acceptable suitor. Although she loved Heathcliff, he still remained an unattainable husband because he did not live up to the domestic standards of what a husband should be. He lacked a family background, wealth, and an ideal appearance that led Catherine to realize that “it would degrade [her] to marry Heathcliff” (Bronte 80). She was aware of the domestic norms, but it upset her because her love always remained true to Heathcliff, regardless of what he lacked.
It seemed that everything Heathcliff lacked, Edgar Linton had by the plenty .....
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A&P And The Bridge Comes To Yellow Sky: Don’t Believe Everything You See
.... and are not allowed to come in again unless they are appropriately dressed. The cashier automatically assumes that the girl, queeny, is going to react in a powerful way, but instead she blushes and looks very embarrassed about the situation. This shocks the cashier, because what he had thought about her appearance from the outside was very deceiving from her true appearance on the inside. She was not the powerful, self-confident woman he thought she was.
In the story “The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky,” appearances are also very deceiving. The town sheriff leaves his town for the first time ever to go and get married. On the c .....
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