He instead spent his time trying to bum money off other people in the village, well aware he would not be able to repay them. Okonkwo lives his whole life with the fear of becoming his father’s equal, so as a young man, he began building his status in the community by becoming a very strong and very great warrior. He is very hard working and doesn’t show signs of weakness to those around him. Okonkwo worked hard to gain his social status and is looked at as one of the leaders of his village. Unoka’s personality and way of living can be related to feminism, a trait that Okonkwo also shows narrow-mindedness towards.
This suggests that he thought death was better than life at one point. All this ends up fueling Frank’s decisions later on in the future because he grows up wanting to earn money for his family so he could provide everything his father
For example, when a male give someone promise, he should try the best to keep his word and maintain a good credit. Let me bring up another example, man should also be responsible to their family. Personally, I think a man should have a job and earn money. It is not a must to be a breadwinner, but at least man should do some contribution to his family. Another major factor that I think a man should have is tenacious.
Although he may not understand what happened in his past, he feels he is chained to it and that his life is already set for him. Throughout the story The Misfit behaves in ways that show he doesn’t want to live the life he has, but he feels obligated to fill in the gaps that his past has created. The Misfit is very similar to the father in a short called “The Boat”. The father works extremely hard on a boat in the harbor to support his family. He has a son that helps him, daughters that help around the house and a very old-fashioned wife that disapproves of many things that make him happy.
Newman was a man who refused to accept failure, and demanded the appearance of great confidence in his family. Thus, it was this chance meeting with his uncle that inspired Miller to create Loman and the Loman household characters as they are. Wealth, hard work, job security and family union are some of the concepts that involves the well-known term, the American Dream. Few people think this dream is something that is automatically granted. Many others however, as in the story Death of a Salesman, view it as something that has to be achieved in order to be successful.
Through a dangerous circumstance, Tom Benecke risks his life trying to fill his empty pockets; however, he learns what he should have been filling his pockets with all along. Tom Benecke is a tall, lean, dark-haired man who is more concerned about success at work than the truly important things in his life such as his wife. This character was interesting to me because of the lessons he learns about life and himself throughout the story. I do not like Tom's selfishness and his obsession with work, but in the end of the story I came to admire the choices he makes to change himself. A friend of mine reminds me of Tom because she always puts other things before her family.
The chain can and will be passed on, passing the legacy and pride down, so all may know the story of Brother Tarps accomplishments. Not only is it the “linking” of men, of a brotherhood, but a link to the past. It is the symbol of struggle, and of perseverance, because without that, Brother Tarp would have become nothing, leading to what could have been sad lives for the people who later met him, people that had come to admire him because of his struggles and trials he endured, people whom needed him to make an impact on so they could better themselves and their own lives. One man fitting this mold could in fact very well be the narrator. The narrator spent his life trying to please his superiors and in the end he had lost his identity, and during the riot, the narrator gets trapped in a hole where he decides to stay in isolation and search for his own
No, I do not feel that George is honest when he says that he would be better off without Lennie. He is a loyal friend and takes responsibility for Lennie's actions. I think he said that out of frustration for the life he is currently living. George has big dreams, owning a farm for example, and he is impatient to see them come true. He truly loves Lennie as a father would and would probably be lost without him in his life.
The character of Biff develops and grows immensely by searching his past and examining relationships with himself and others to find his true self. Although he had a poor view of himself, he felt in the end that he had done something very special when he realized who he really was. Miller puts Biff in a position to look at many of his most important relationships throughout the performance. The two most important relationships are Biff’s relationship with himself and his relationship with his father. Realizing his father is not as perfect as he believes him to be at such a formidable stage in his development deeply affects his view of himself.
20Oct11 Money and Relationships "Often, silence is a shield for the shame, guilt and anxiety people feel about their own ways with money(47)." Olivia Mellan, author of Men, Women and Money, explains how money can be an emotional barrier that drives couples apart. When two people become a couple, whether they just live together or get married, they form a new correlation with their money. One person will earn more, inevitably given the upper hand on financial matters. Others will enter into the relationship with debts but are ashamed to mention it.