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.
DuWayne Grinnell ENG 263 5/2/13 My Analysis on Bartleby the Scrivener The story is very interesting as the self-characterization of the narrator was significant to the plot. The narrator is a safe man who takes slight risks and attempts to adjust to his surroundings. I had observed that the narrator was deeply concerned about the financial security and comfort of life which were his core priorities. Bartleby was a confused loner who was hired by an old lawyer (the narrator) to work at his business which entailed titles, mortgages and bonds. Bartleby was basically hired for copying the text but eventually he started refusing the work requested by the lawyer.
Morrie is telling Mitch that “It's funny...I felt a little ashamed, because our culture tells us we should be ashamed if we can't wipe our own behind. But then I figured, Forget what the culture says.” (116) Morrie realizes that he needs help and he isn't ashamed of it. Throughout Morrie's life he has been himself. He never cared about what other people thought or what the culture said. He had a very happy life with that.
He also don’t know how to build and use personal power to influences others behavior to achieve his goals. Sometimes he may only care about his own interest but ignore the company’s interest, because he is a very cautious man. For example: when he finds there is a leak after “balance accident”, he just let it pass. He also never talk about business matters with friends to avoids fall into office politics. b) Allen Jones is a branch manager coordinator in Hereford National Bank.
The conversation itself is depressing even mournful where both speakers despairing over past, current and future events. Throughout the text there are no actions taken such eating, drinking or praying to the gods given it a stark, lonely effect given the fact that there is feasting elsewhere in the palace of Nestor. Describing Telemachos as ‘thoughtful’ (203) suggests that he is has to consider his actions and words in front of a king, giving Nestor a grandiose title. Whereas Nestor only described as a ‘horseman’ (210) is far more informal seeing Telemachos as an equal. The two distinct parts of this passage is that Telemachos starts the conversation but only has 8 lines to make his point while Nestor manages 14 lines of response.
This means that the character is the odd one out in this story, being that the older waiter and old man are lonely. This young waiter does say very rude things about the old man, and is very immature. He portrays a passive attitude toward all others. “He should just kill himself” is one example of his narrow mindedness. The young man doesn't understand
Activity #1: Diagnosis John Nash's antisocial behaviour was clear from the very beginning of the movie where we notice him seated alone and not speaking to anyone. As the movie develops he is hardly seen associating himself with people other than his roommate who he relies on and to who he states that "the truth is I don't like people much, and they don't much like me." Abnormal behaviour John displays is where he starts to believe he had been hired for a top-secret government mission, even though he hadn't. These delusions often led him to ramble on about things that no one could understood. Disorganized speech is another symptom of schizophrenia which he displayed frequently.
He says, that as a consequence of the way he was raised he is "inclined to reserve all judgments" about other people (page 5). His saying this makes it seem like we can trust him to give a fair unbiased account of the story that he is telling, but we later learn that he does not reserve all judgments. Nick further makes us feel that he is a non-partisan narrator by the way he tells of his past. We come to see that Nick is very partial in his way of telling the story. This is shown when he admits early in the story that he does not judge Gatsby because Gatsby had an "extraordinary gift for hope, a romantic readiness".
The older waiter, the one who has empathy for the old man, defends him to the younger waiter whom only seems to care about himself and that fact that he never gets home at a decent hour. The younger waiter is stumped by the fact that someone with a large sum of money would try to commit suicide, without taking into account the things that are transpiring in the old man’s life. The older waiter at least takes into account the fact that the old man is alone and without a job or pastime. When I was about eight years old I was beaten by my step-father, he was taken to jail and then bailed out, he was allowed x number of hours of community service and no contact until I am an adult. The next time I saw my mother after the fact she blamed me for everything and told me that because of me her marriage would never be the same.
Despite its significance as a once-in-a-million meeting, he feels as though he cannot say anything, since; “The people in Farquarson’s Living room seem united in their tactic claim that there had been no past, no war—That there was no danger or trouble in the world.” (pg 76) This incident may have triggered Francis unconscious resistance against the narrow and irrelevant suburban society. In fact, Francis Weed’s name is a symbol of what his true self is to Shady Hills; an ugly troublesome “weed” to the regular people, and that he will remain unhappy by staying in Shady Hills. Francis Weed’s “brush with death” at the stories beginning causes him to have the epiphany to start enjoying life, and he realizes that he is unhappy with following suburban