Peter shows how he hates work, so the key to his happiness is just not going. Although he Peter was all for his own happiness, Milton began to think in a similar further into the film. This caused the two characters to butt heads. Milton told Peter he would not turn down his radio volume, basically just because it made him happy. A line from Self Reliance by Emerson tells that “their rage is decorous and prudent, for they are timid, as being vulnerable themselves.” Milton’s lack of timidity helped him gain his personal happiness therefore exemplifying transcendentalism.
He does not wish for clothes, girls, or alcohol, but is still envious of Boy's enjoyment in life. He considers himself a selfish, despicable person. Despite his life seeming strange and dull, he sees it as useful and puts everything he has into his teaching. Boy, formerly in good fortune from his upbringing, contrasts with Dunstan in wealth later on in life. He becomes quite good at stock investments and lives life luxuriously, buying a car and flaunting material objects around.
This is the cognitive component of Peter’s attitude. Peter truly believes this statement to be factual and he wakes up each day believing that it will be even worst than the previous day. He does not display much hope of breaking this negative pattern. Peter displays his feelings or the affective component of his attitude when he talks with his co-workers about his job. He is very depressed about his situation and feels no sense of job satisfaction from the work that he does.
Neither understands having though, passion, feeling, or emotion in life. The Myth of Sisyphus helps explain some of the meaning of some of the events taking place in The Stranger. In The Stranger the main character Meursault takes life for granted in a way of not enjoying it. He seems more satisfied with the usual as if no excitement lives in his life. The death of his mother doesn’t even bother him so show sadness.
Christopher’s difficulty understanding metaphors, his passion on certain topics, and his computer-like ability with numbers, strongly suggest that Christopher has a mild form of autism. This condition has made him extremely gifted in math and science but severely underequipped socially, leading Christopher to frequent misunderstandings of other people, especially his father. As a result, he very much dislikes social interaction and avoids it when possible. Although Christopher does not mention autism by name anywhere in the novel, we see that he recognizes the ways he differs from most people and feels aware of these differences. He says, although most people enjoy chatting, he hates it because he finds it pointless.
Walter seems to be unsatisfied with his seemingly boring life where the most exciting task of his day is getting overshoes. This overwhelming boredom is why one would assume he is so imaginative. Walter retreats into his mind for entertainment instead of facing his unsatisfactory life. Walter Mitty is almost afraid to do exciting things and would rather be alone in his fantasy than in the real world, as he seems to be startled when “sucked” back into reality. In addition, his wife is not in any of his fantasies.
Ironically, actually Irwin also is not that smart. He knows the technique, but he is never good enough for anything. He smiles when he looks at his students, may be because he never has their prodigious brain. Once again, there is a life that is being hidden by one of the character of the story. But, that’s not the only thing that is being hidden by Irwin.
An example of this would be, “ I usually Lone it anyway”. Which shows his feelings on how he doesn’t care. Also when the reader imagines Ponyboy you get a lower class hoodlum image but when you read on Ponyboy doesn’t fit the Hoodlum stereotype as you find he is very intelligent as he has a high IQ and makes good grades but doesn’t like to show it as his older brother Darry expects a high grades from him. In addition Ponyboy admires his brother Sodapop as he
It is true life cannot be perfect all the time, but inside I would like to think that we all have a feeling that makes us want to go and erase the past and start over again. In contrast with the movie which I have seen in the class “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” shows that (the casting actor) Mitty was feeling disappointment for his self being a boring person. Later on he found the positiveness and motivation to live life from his girlfriend and his friend (Sean). Life is a mixture of happiness and sadness. Nobody grew-up with a constant emotion.
The people who believed Chris to be a “loopy young man who…lacked even a modicum of common sense” (184) didn’t understand his intention. He wasn’t trying to get himself killed in the Alaska brush, he just wanted to live off the essentials and go back to basics. He was very intelligent which makes it hard to believe he was crazy or just dumb. He was living by the words of Emerson and Thoreau where he could be “emancipated from…a world of abstraction” (22) and live in solitude. He followed “his genius until it misled him”