Unfortunately, he lacked the funds to live the life he not only imagined, but told constant lies about it. "He had autograph pictures of all the members of the stock company which he showed his classmates, telling them the most incredible stories of his familiarity with these people, of his acquaintance with the soloists who came to Carnegie Hall, his suppers with them and the flowers he sent them" (Cather, n.p). Paul went from being a boy who escaped Cordelia Street by visiting Carnegie Hall, to being a runaway thief to New York, to a boy whose dream of an extravagant lifestyle was ruined by an impetuous decision. While it was true that Paul did escape the mundane life of Cordelia Street to the vibrant world of Carnegie Hall and the stock theatre, he did not live the exquisite life he led others to believe. Paul really did have acquaintances of the stock theatre.
He buys an expensive wardrobe and checks himself into the Waldorf Astoria hotel. Paul has a night out on the town with a freshman from Yale that end in a bad note. Paul finds out that his theft has gone public in Pittsburg and his dad has come to look for him. He has one last dinner at the Astoria, wakes up the next morning and takes a cab to a set of railroad tracks where he jumps in front of them and commits suicide. The author uses symbolism, character, and conflict to portray the central idea in the story.
What would you do to protect the ones you love? Would you be willing to give up your beauty, health, or even mental being at the price of a lie? But what if in turn, it ended up hurting them in the worst of ways? Usually, people want to save the ones they love from being upset, even if it means not telling the truth. But throughout life, people are affected from these lies and pay for them in a way that makes us wonder if it was all really worth it.
10. Basically the love of the theater and made him commit the crime because he thought he would be happier in New York city and he would no longer fill out of place but like as if he was ment to be amongst the people of new York city. 11. The embarrassment about everything. 12.
In The Great Gatsby, Jay Gatsby is a man who started out with no money, and after years of hard work finally achieved a fraction of his dream which was to become wealthy. By maintaining his high status, he is blinded by the truth that money can’t buy love or happiness. This leads to the other half of his dream, which is to get the girl of his dreams, Daisy, alongside him. Because of Gatsby’s wealth, he is unable to tell who his true friends are because people only pretend to be his friend so that they will get invited to his huge parties and use his luxurious belongings. “But I can still read the gray names, and they will give you a better impression than my generalities of those who accepted Gatsby’s hospitality and paid him the subtle tribute of knowing nothing whatever about him” (Fitzgerald 61).
It shows how from the day he made this mistake he felts shame for what he did for the rest of his life until he actually decides to go out and do something about it. Since this is one of the most important messages and morals throughout the course of the story, there is doubt that shame is in fact a destructive force since it is one of the authors main goals to get the point across. Shame can always be broken down into a before and after process, and even though some do not take the time to fix what they started there is always a way to do so. It can certainly take control of your life and affect the decisions you make in the future which is what happened in Amir's case. So with that in mind, if you feel shame, do all you can to get rid of it and fix what caused the shame so that you may get back to where you were and live your
Another example through characterization is when Gatsby first attended a party at Daisy’s place, he was still “a penniless young man without a past” (149). Gatsby was faithful to his illusion of who he wanted to be. He characterized himself as a ‘Jay Gatsby’ and changed his past as James Gatz into a person who inherited money from a wealthy family. Even though he was still “penniless”, he still made himself and others believe he was a rich man. Another example through characterization is when he realized he needed to do whatever it took to make it seem like he was in the same social stratum as Daisy and to do so, he had to take things that made him look more affluent: “he took what he could get, ravenously and unscrupulously” (149).
Melinda thought there was something wrong with her, like she was useless. She had a lot of trouble making friends and when she did make a friend her depression drove them away. Melinda's depression even caused her to cut herself and contemplate committing suicide. Melinda's depression could have been avoided if she had learned to overcome her past earlier. Next, if you don't overcome your past, you will never be able to get on with your life.
The great Gatsby: self improvement Nick Caraway has many dilemmas in this story. He moves from New York from the west and moves to west egg, where he meets and becomes good friends with his neighbor Jay Gatsby. Nick is also afraid of staying organized when he moves to west egg, and is over working himself and putting a lot of stress on himself from his work and his life with friends. He also moves to a place of the “new rich” where the rich as snobby and spoiled as ever and no nothing but the high life, and where people use other people to get what they want. He doesn’t like getting to attached to anyone emotionally.
imagine if you are facing the endless suffering and excruciating pain but can do nothing to end it. You are desperate need of terminating your agony but you will not ask your beloved ones to help you, because it would likely to put them into serious troubles that will destroy their lives. It is stunning that when people are facing death, in their darkest and most desperate moment of life, nobody could offer a little help because of the law bans the help. Doctor assisted suicide should be legal because it protects people who do not want to suffer lingering, painful deaths. Some terminally ill patients are allowed to end their lives by refusing medical treatments; in all fairness, those who don't have that option should be allowed to choose death.