What does the café represent for the two of them? • The older waiter is reluctant because he is obviously living with the guilt or shame of either committing something wrong or going through something bad/wrong when he was younger. The refrain expresses that the waiter does not believe in God and is not deeply religious. The older waiter understands the need for the café because he and the old man are both lonely people, so he empathizes with him. The café represents them both.
The narrator showed little appreciation for his wife and had no friends. Likewise, in “A Small, Good Thing” the baker lived in an isolated world. He was self-centered and thought only about himself. He was very grumpy and mean. The bakery was his place of desolation because he did not like the interaction with people.
Lennie does not know his own strength, reacts to trouble when he is scared Idioms- “old lady” (p.53), “throw a litter” (p.58), “punk” (p.62), “cut off his wind” (p.63) Allusions- Luger, phonograph, fence picket, Golden Gloves Chapter 4- 66. Crooks was alone, living by himself and able to leave his personal possessions lying around 67. Loneliness- people kept their distance from Crooks because he was black 68. Loneliness- Lennie also quite alone in the world- only friend is George and tries to make friends with Crooks 69. Lennie- a genuinely nice person, has nice smile that tempted Crooks to let him in 69.
And the middle age waiter, who is the most detailed of the three, has a darker understanding of both of the other two characters. Hemmingway cleverly uses a combination of characters, tone, style, irony, and symbolism to portray his theme of the despair and dissatisfaction we feel from the realization that life has no meaning. Hemmingway uses three unnamed characters as his first element to illustrate the idea of despair. The first of which is an old man. He does not talk, only drinks at the café until he’s drunk, then leaves without paying.
Candy has to deal with prejudice because he is old and he only has one hand. In the novel people would think that if someone cripple then he or she is useless. Carlson is a good example because he tells Candy to put down his dog because he is old and useless, this relates to Candy because he is also old and useless because he only has one hand. All the characters in “Of Mice and Men” struggle through the harsh realities of loneliness, isolation, prejudice, lack of friendship and the inability to build a secure financial for their future . By having someone to speak to and having a dream they never gave up and were able to get through the cruel circumstances that they faced during the great
After being kicked out of his school, Holden lacks direction, feeling lost and unhappy. While sitting in the lobby of his hotel, Holden begins to feel depressed so instead of staying in the hotel and trying to figure out what it is that makes him feel this way, he gets in a “cab and [tells] the driver to take [him] down to Ernie's” (81). By trying to find a happier place whenever his moral is down causes him to be dis-satisfied with most situations. He is unhappy at the hotel and thus leave only to become even more unhappy at Ernie’s. Since Holden can’t seem to find a place that makes him truly content, he seeks guidance from his cab driver, Horwitz, by asking if he knows “where the ducks go during the wintertime” (81).
Drinking moderately with friends, having dinner, he made sure however to never become the out of control alchie, as no one likes the annoying, obnoxious drunk. Over time he drank more and more by himself, becoming secluded and dependent. Withdrawing from his friends based on the realizations of his dependency, he became paranoid his neighbors would know the secret when they heard the clanking of the bottles in the trash bags as he carried them to the recycling bin. Alcohol seemed to mask, cover the feeling he had lingering inside, his unhappiness and uneasiness with himself, others and life in general. His life as he stated had just “stalled”, he was not married, did not have kids, had no legal issues and was
Even when Osborne is killed, the relationship between the two is still remembered as Raleigh misses his celebration meal and does not feel in the mood for eating. This is shown when Raleigh is arguing with Stanhope and says ‘Good God! Don’t you understand? How canI sit down and eat that – when – (his voice is nearly breaking) – when Osborne’s – lying – out there -.’ The stage directions give the audience the intense feeling Sheriff was trying to create of sorrow and anger. I believe Raleighs tone really shows how much Osborne meant to him in the few days he had known him.
Rather spend; he is greedy, not even spending money for electricity at his workplace but rather working with candles during the night. What Dickens presents and commentates on is even though the upper class has it all, they rather seem to be stingy and greedy, not wanting to share their wealth, not wanting to give for the better. Not wanting to do so only creates a bad reputation for the upper class. On the other hand, Tiny Tim, and his family have close to nothing at all, only to be more giving and wanting than the upper class fellows. Dickens demonstrations here that Tiny Tim is the most vulnerable of all the lower class yet he is one of the most giving and happy members of the lower class, which puts shame on Scrooge and his fellow upper class men.
I didn’t realize it until I saw the movie version of the play how big of an idiot he is. His character was meant to seem as if anyone could be a night watchman. The title in itself is ironic because Dogberry is just a drunken man who sleeps on his job. Nothing he says makes sense and he doesn’t even do his job correctly. You can tell that nobody takes them seriously, especially when Leonato shows no sign of gratefulness that he has captured two men by simply saying “go drink some wine” (Shakespeare 46) As we look into the theories of comedy for the play, it is clear that an option is Freud’s theory.