The more I got to know the real Corwin Weik, the more I realized that he built up walls and portrayed a certain person because that’s what he was used to, just like me. But he let those walls down for me and finally showed me his true self. That’s when I found out that he’s really a sensitive, thoughtful, well spoken, talented, intelligent person. And that’s how he became my best friend. Over the next couple of months we grew closer and I continued to learn more about him.
Kara Leibowitz Mrs. Koharchik English 1 Honors 4 March, 2010 "The inexorable facts closed in on him like prison-warders handcuffing a convict. There was no way out - none. He was a prisoner for life, and now his one ray of light was to be extinguished. "(Wharton 116-117) When a reader compares the two works, Ethan Frome and The Age of Innocence, contrasts between the two are easily spotted, but as the story progressed, the characters from two separate worlds began to have a lot of similarities. When Edith Wharton was writing these pieces she created two male characters, both already committed to a woman, who fell deeply in love with another.
When I can’t stand on my legs, perhaps I shall have a chance” (740). This quote demonstrates his dedication to his work as he claims he will have to be literally unable to move before he will take a break. Later in the story, as he goes about his rounds, he is described as a “mere hired assistant” and that he is a “slave to the country-side” (742). It is revealed that his job wears him out, because it is “nothing but work, drudgery, constant hastening from dwelling to dwelling” and he doesn’t like the town where he lives and works. The narrator states, “He grumbled, he said he hated the hellish hole.” Furthermore, he feels superior to the working class people he serves, thinking of them as “rough, inarticulate, powerfully emotional men and women” (743).
His “I say” stems from many sleepless nights and many busy days of doing what he loves to do. He says, quite clearly, that it is absolutely possible to be both a writer and a physician, and that the two do balance each other out. The fatigue of a doctors work and the dialectics/ struggle of an authors do not phase an individual, what “they” say means nothing because what “they” say quickly materialized into what “they” had been trying to say. Their words, at the very core, is what is to be appreciated. Williams makes a good point in saying that so many people tend to take what society says as law.
Throughout the film, it shows the inventor’s daily routine of life – going to work, putting together the Happy product and then going home and inventing his own product ‘Bliss’. The repetitive lifestyle he lives is contrasted to the completion of his product. It gives birth to a colourful world that is viewed by most people. His product is a success but the inventor soon realises he himself is somewhat of a failure. The use of repetition demonstrates the harsh nature of life for everyone.
Sam Student Krissy O’Grady English 11B 5 Nov 2013 Improve Yourself Nick The narrator in the book, The Great Gatsby, is named Nick Carraway who can use a little more improvement in his life. He lots to others to add interest into his life and he likes people with money have everything. Nick has a neighbor called Jay Gatsby and he is one of those people that parties all night and has more than enough money to throw these parties. Nick looks up to this man and that is where he needs his first correction. Nick needs to have more self-esteem and to forget about money and power.
However as he works with the patients, he develops a new perspective and insight into certain matters and himself. When Nick and Lucy denounce him for doing a play about love, by declaring that ‘only mad people in this day and age would do a work about love and infidelity’, Lewis is able to realise that love and friendship is more important than politics. He learns about the importance of friendship, clearly evident, that he attends the moratorium, helping the patients prepare for their performance with an additional rehearsal. Lewis also finds strength later in the play, which he was devoid of to begin with . At the start, he is overwhelmed by the patients such as Cherry, Doug and Roy by their 'crazy' behaviour.
Colin Rousset Professor Hatley English 102-003 22 January 2013 Bub’s Change Throughout the Story In Raymond Carver’s short story, “Cathedral”, the narrator is very content with his life of going to work every day, coming home to his wife, lighting one up, and then going to sleep to do it all over again the next day. He seems as if he is just fine with his mediocre job and life because he does not show any ambition to move up and do better than he already is. Although he is so content with life, he is also very close-minded when it comes to new people and new experiences. We see this when his wife informs him that Robert, her blind friend Seattle, will be coming to spend the night with them. Although he says that he “wasn’t enthusiastic about [Robert’s] visit” (28), his opinion of Robert greatly changes throughout the story.
Cather uses symbols of color in her story to build the character Paul in her short story, “Paul's Case.” When explaining Paul’s feelings toward where he lives, “he approached it tonight with the nerveless sense of defeat, the hopeless feeling of sinking back forever into ugliness and commonness that he had always had when he came home” (168). Vainness is another feature that portrayed to make the audience feel as if he were one’s own son and deserved a beating; “Paul entered the faculty room suave and smiling” (164), shows a boy often having no respect for his elders. Cather portrays Paul’s character as a daydreamer who lives in a fantasy world and cannot come to terms with reality. He wanted to live the life of the rich and famous, “he reflected upon the mysterious dishes that were brought into the dining-room, the green bottles in buckets of ice, as he had seen them in the supper party pictures of the Sunday supplement”
From the brief physical description of Gabriel, as a tall plump man, and his reminiscing introduced later in the story, it may be assumed that his younger days have long passed. Now, all of his dreams and lusts and desires and love have been put onto his wife, which in turn crumble before his eyes, when he learns of his wife’s past love and her still very real attachment to the man. Gabriel is a victim of his age, and mundane day to day activities of his life, and without even the pleasant memories of his past life, he’s left with nothing more to do than sulk in his misery as he waits for his days to end. The impression that Gabriel isn’t interested, or rather, tired of the norm of his life first comes from his confrontation with Miss Ivors, when she pressures him to accompany her and friends up North. Gabriel refuses repeatedly, insisting that he’d prefer to go to France and Belgium “partly for a change (154)”, and when asked why, responds sharply that he is “sick of his own country.