Lenehan's personal paralysis is that he lives a pitiful life but doesn't wish to. While Corley goes to meet the woman, Lenehan wanders around and decides to stop when he sees a sign for "Ginger Beer and Ginger Ale" in the window of a refreshment bar and lets his mind wander to thoughts of Corley and the woman and afterwards states, "He would be thirty-one in November. Would he ever get a good job? Would he never have a home of his own?" with this Joyce paints the picture of poverty in Dublin and tells the reader how Lenehan has zero hope for his future.
"Last week he tried to commit suicide", "why? ", "he was in despair", "what about?" ,"nothing" (Hemmingway, 1926). This is saying that the old man may not have been having problems in life, and it would seem that he had nothing to be in despair about, yet he was old and had nothing to look forward to, nothing worth living for. In the story it tells how he has tried to deal with this despair
Before meeting the Das family, Mr. Kapasi is a lonely man living an unfulfilling life, trapped within a loveless marriage; after meeting the Das family, he is the same man. As the paper with his address on it soars away in the wind, all hope of befriending the attractive woman who romanticized his mundane profession was lost; he observes the family together, “knowing that this was the picture of the Das family that he would preserve forever in his mind.” (303). This picture of the family does not include him, and chances are that he will go back to his lonely, unfulfilling, loveless life. Although Mr. Kapasi’s future remains in the dark, a potential hope shines down on the Das family. After Mr. Das reveals that she in an unfaithful wife who loves neither her children, nor her husband, chaos breaks loose as monkeys, symbolic for Mrs. Das’s guilt, attack the very boy who was conceived out of her infidelity; the more Mrs. Das raged, the more the monkeys raged.
From the beginning of the poem he describes this man as a common poor boy just like every young man who no one ever hears about, he leaves his home and goes out into the world scared and surrounded by strangers. Not having the lavish lifestyle of the upper society he struggles to earn and has to live with commoners. While living the common life he finds himself seeking refuge in what the lower part city has to offer. He finds himself going through the motions of life, and after reflecting through the years he feels that he has not gained an upper hand and life just keeps going on. His life has through struggles, and he will still be a fighter that will continue to work and triumph.
Everything in our world is for us to enjoy and appreciate. “But the man in the street finding no worth in himself which corresponds to the force which built a tower or sculptured marble god, feels poor when he looks on these.” We should never look upon any
“The Weary Blues” is about a man singing the blues and how he wished he were dead. “Got the Weary Blues and can’t be satisified-I ain’t happy no mo’ and I wish that I had died.” This man feels all alone, depressed and feels like life is not worth living anymore. Langston had these same feelings and writing his poems was a way of him expressing his feelings. “Too Blue”, another Langston poem about depression and giving up on life. “But I ain’t got neither bullet nor gun- and I’m too blue to look for one.” This poor man is so down in the dumps that he can’t even find the energy to get up and get a gun to take his life.
The main character in Birds, Clouds, Frogs did nothing with his life. He hated his job and went through life with no purpose. He was then given a chance to make a change in his life and possibly contribute a verse, yet didn’t take it, representing a negative example. On the other hand, in O Me! O Life!
The Hunger Artist knows that although he is honest and true to his work, his peers can never truly understand his accomplishment. In representation of Kafka’s personal life, the Hunger Artist himself loses much of his freewill. In his time, professional fasting has lost its icon. Before, any Hunger Artist could manage their own performances but as the profession loses touch with spectators, management is required
The Stranger Essay Albert Camus novels The Stranger and The Myth of Sisyphus are based to define the meaning of existentialism. In The Stranger the main character Meursault is portrayed to show no emotions and judgments towards others. While The Myth of Sisyphus shows who lives his life in a stubbornly and arrogant behavior as if he’s out to get someone in life. In both stories the readers that they have taken life and for granted and come to sort of realize their wrongs at the end of the story. Neither understands having though, passion, feeling, or emotion in life.
The young waiter with a wife waiting at home, begins to taps his foot for the man to leave so he can close the shop for the night. An older waiter contradicts the idea of closing, because the young waiter should be considerate of others desires and despairs. Like the deaf man, the older waiter is one who can’t sleep at night and causes them to be at war with themselves. The young, selfish waiter begins to wipe the table down with a rag, and proclaimed that the café was closed. The old man gets up, makes his way out the door, and down the street unsteadily.