He let go of a girl he used to like, got in a fight with his roommate, and got kicked out of yet another school. Either this or the fact that Holden can’t really connect with anybody would make him feel like this. He feels although he’s living amongst “phony” people and can’t really talk to anyone. He feels very depressed while at Pency because of his inability to connect with anyone there, or because he’s being kicked out and will miss it. Holden decides to stay at a hotel instead where he can relax and not have to deal with anyone at Percy anymore.
The world was always puzzling, but after the war people didn’t even bother to find any significance in life. After the war, people resided to sex and drunkenness for the fulfillment of their hopelessness. The characters in Ernest Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises struggle with these problems. Hemingway tries to portray how the lives of the Lost Generation were simply disintegrating into the dark abyss. Through the characters of The Sun Also Rises, Hemingway tries to depict the aimless lives of people and how they became “lost”.
To move forth to the second point, we also come to the idea that Gatsby couldn’t achieve his dream, for he was struggling with the concept of the dream, and we realize this by seeing him trying to love a memory that ceased to exist. As we can be led in, we see in the end of chapter 6 that Gatsby throws a party, but he notices Daisy didn’t like it. As F. Scott Fitzgerald states, “’Can’t repeat the past?’ he cried incredulously ‘why of course you can!’” (116) Nick tells Gatsby (in summarization, this is not how he said it specifically) not to feel bad about the past, because you can’t repeat it. Gatsby, in reply, states the quote previously noted. The significance of this quote is that it displays us the feelings Gatsby has for his memories.
Henry admits he didn’t want to fall in love with her, but ince they <br>rarely argue. eath. He notices because of his love he has become gentle. <br>When he deserts and returns to Catherine he finds comfort, order, and courage. He says, <br>foreshadowing the end of their love, “If people bring so much courage to this world the <br>world has to kill them to break them, so of course it kills them.â€.
Though the story of ‘A farewell to arms’ is primarily centred around the life of Lieutenant Henry and his personal experience and point of view during the war, we are also presented with an insight into the experiences and perspectives of his fellow soldiers during the war. This perspective showing that it is a common scenario of men to be involved in these dangerous games of love, seduction and courtship. In contrast to this example, that it is a common thing among men to be involved in these dangerous games; the priest a friend of Lieutenant Henry presents a difference to not create a generalization of men. As he isn’t involved in the
He says, It took me quite a while to get to sleep- I wasn’t even tired- but finally I did. (104) Holden had a quarrel with Maurice that night about a prostitute and how Holden didn’t pay her enough money. Holden feels sorry for the woman because when she got there he didn’t feel like having sex with her, especially because before she showed up he wasn’t even sure he wanted to give up his virginity at all. Holden is indecisive about all the things he should have his mind made up on, which partly explains why he has such a problem sleeping. If Holden could simply clear his mind for once, he would be able to get a good
He would skip work, and instead was drunk all the time. He gave up everything, and just sat home. From Walters behavior, mama had felt so hurt that her son was going through this. One day she gave him the check to test him of to what he would do with the money. She told him that a certain amount is for him, and the other certain amount is for Beneathas education.
He couldn’t take being confined in a house full of rules, guidelines, and schedules that he had never seen before. Huck wanted to be free once more. Suddenly he is kidnapped by his father, and his restriction worsens. He’s thrown into isolation. “Every little while he locked me in and went down to the store… got drunk and had a good time.
This narrow view of Gatsby’s carries over to his first encounter with Daisy. Because of his time apart from her, his expectations had grown to an unobtainable amount. Fitzgerald created a dream-oriented character in how he obsessed over every detail of their meeting. This reality could not meet Gatsby’s expectations leading to a small but evident change in Gatsby. “He had been full of the idea so long, dreamed it through to the end…Now in the reaction he was running down like an overwound clock” (Fitzgerald 92).
So that was out.” (Pg.59) He avoided all contact with his parents. Holden becomes so lonely that he tries to interact with anyone within his reach. He even asks a cab driver if he would “care to stop on the way” and join him for a cocktail (pg.60) Holden has alienated himself for such a prolonged amount of time that it has driven him into somewhat of a state of depersonalization. Instead of getting the support from the people close to him, he uses strangers to socialize with because he thinks they wont judge him as they are unknowing of his troubles. Holden has tried setting up rules for himself like “Last year I made a rule that I was going to quit horsing around with girls… I broke it though, the same week I made it” (pg.63) Holden cant maintain even his own made up rules.