I believe everybody needs that one person in their life that they share a romantic intimacy with, the old man lost his and who knows if that was the reason he attempted suicide. But just because the old man was lonely and old doesn’t justify what the young waiter was saying. “A Haunted House” by Virginia Woolf was also confusing and it
He also tends to go unnoticed, as it said at the beginning. “We’re common and boring, and you walk right on by us...” But it wasn’t all negative because people he met along the way did pity him, which helped him get from point a to point b. In “The Yellow Wallpaper,” Jane is put on a “rest cure” treatment by her husband after she gets depressed after giving birth. Because she is a woman, she is obviously just making herself nervous and needs to sleep and not strain herself and everything will fix itself. Her husband, John, even goes so far as to say that she should “not give way to fancy in the least” because it would be too tiring for her.
By doing so, Hemingway builds the characters, and uses irony to establish the story. The main character is the old man, who is illustrated by the waiters as “ a little drunk, and while he was a good client they knew that if he became too drunk he would leave without paying” (Hemingway 143). Hemingway acknowledges the old man from the conversation of the two waiters; the deaf old man once had a wife and possibly a family, but now is alone and in the care of his niece, who saved him from a suicide attempt. The older of the two waiters seems to know quite a lot, for he understands the old man. He too appreciates the quality of good light but it is also necessary that the place be clean and pleasant.
He thinks of her as “part of the great loneliness being carried up the driving current” (366), meaning that she has always been a solitary individual one with wild. Despite the fact that Lipsha hardly knew her and only recently found out he was her son, he still sees her as part of nature. He even remarks about how he is glad June had given him up, as her other son “suffered more than Lipsha Morrissey did” (367), signifying her substandard
The young waiter is in a hurry to go home to his wife and is repulsed by the old and meaningless life of the old man. The older waiter identifies with this old man in that he also feels the despair of nothingness in his own life. The fact that the café is well lit is a powerful symbol in the story. Darkness can be a symbol of fear, loneliness, despair, and emptiness, while the light brings comfort and companionship. The light in the café is man-made or artificial and can be turned off; giving us the sense that it can only be a temporary and incomplete relief from the emptiness of the dark.
At first he is presented as a strange character because he rarely speaks and always walks around with a scowl on his face. Eventually, when Zero becomes friends with Stanley, the reader learns that Zero is silent because he does not like answering questions and most likely because he is wary of people like Mr. Pendanski, who always mock him. Zero has suffered so much hardship in his life that he eventually cannot stand Camp Green Lake anymore and he runs away. He has a generous spirit, exemplified by the fact that he shares his last jar of "sploosh" with Stanley after he has run away. As Stanley gains self-confidence, Zero begins to talk more and scowl less.
It states “John is away all day, and even some nights when his cases are serious… I am glad my case is not serious”. Throughout the story she refers to him as dear. When it mentions “John laughs at me… but one expects that from a marriage,” that shows that John can also be the narrator’s husband. At the end of the story, when the narrator is has her mental breakdown, John ends up fainting after seeing how far gone the narrator has gone. This also makes it seem like John is the narrator’s husband because he is so
Despite its significance as a once-in-a-million meeting, he feels as though he cannot say anything, since; “The people in Farquarson’s Living room seem united in their tactic claim that there had been no past, no war—That there was no danger or trouble in the world.” (pg 76) This incident may have triggered Francis unconscious resistance against the narrow and irrelevant suburban society. In fact, Francis Weed’s name is a symbol of what his true self is to Shady Hills; an ugly troublesome “weed” to the regular people, and that he will remain unhappy by staying in Shady Hills. Francis Weed’s “brush with death” at the stories beginning causes him to have the epiphany to start enjoying life, and he realizes that he is unhappy with following suburban
Your social circle keeps getting smaller with years. And the clammy fingers of death play a fearsome tune on your spine. Failing health, along with a decreased level of activity or social life can make old age frightening. Visualize, my dear friends, an old man sitting next to a solitary window in his room…looking outside, he is pondering….. God never planned it this way; I’ll never believe God expected better of us and more He expected faith, trust, love, and caring Laughter filling the air; many faces to adore But loneliness and solitude are the reality today Busy, busy lives all hurrying to and fro And I sit here lonely in my rocking chair For that knock that never comes to my door Take time to talk to people older than yourself, and the older, the better. When was the last time you sat down with someone two or more generations before yours and had a really good
“This grew; I gave commands; then all smiles stopped together.” This quote creates a sense of loneliness to the reader seeing as the speaker is saying that “all smiles stopped” implies that the person who smiled is no longer alive but now dead. Being alone in a household after someone has died makes you lonely. Even though the speaker doesn’t say this the reader can tell this is what he is feeling because of the fact that he is now looking for a new wife to give him company. We can see this by the quote: “Though his fair daughter’s self, as I avowed”. When lonely you look for company; searching for a new wife/partner is the same as searching for company to fill in the loneliness.