Two conclusions can be immediately drawn; either Arnold is a harmless jester attempting to hit on an attractive girl, or he is a menacing man with much darker motives. He has never met Connie before in his life, yet by calling her ‘baby’, he addresses her as if they are in a close and personal relationship. More disturbing than calling a complete stranger an affectionate name, is the threat that Arnold insinuates. He doesn't elaborate much on this, only saying he is going to “get” Connie. Without further explanation, this lets the reader interpret if his meaning is physical or emotional.
In the beginning of the story he is somewhat immature in the ways he views life. He is a daydreamer, which is shown numerous times in his talk of the three young girls. He is selfish when he quits his job with no regard to how it will affect his parents who may have to support him now or Lengel who has had to take over his job as cashier. Sammy show a sympathetic side by getting upset when Queenie becomes embarrassed, he also shows devotion by sticking to his decisions even after he realizes they were not wrong. By the end of this story Sammy shows how his characteristics have changed from that of a young man with no worries to that of a man by realizing how hard life would be on him and everyone who loves
One might believe that the decision he made was selfish, and basically made for no apparent reason. His description of the three girls, the way that Sammy terminated his employment, and making decisions without thinking about his responsibilities are just a few of the reasons as to why Sammy is an immature, foolish, and impulsive young man. “My stomach kind of fell as I felt how hard the world was going to be to me hereafter” (544) shows that Sammy does realize he made a stupid decision, but that he couldn’t do much since “Once you begin a gesture it’s fatal not to go through with it”
When Gatsby attempts to regain the past by persuading Daisy to tell Tom she doesn't love him, Tom destroys Gatsby's dream. By having the more recent past, Tom reminds Daisy of the good times they have had together and causes her to no longer think of leaving him. He also has knowledge of Gatsby's illegal dealings, something that he knows will upset Daisy, and he knows will strengthen his cause against Gatsby. 'The Great Gatsby' is effectively based on the past, and memories. In the last page of the novel, Nick contemplates human nature, and we learn a little of why Fitzgerald has written the book in this way, and why, in his opinion, we struggle so in life.
To move forth to the second point, we also come to the idea that Gatsby couldn’t achieve his dream, for he was struggling with the concept of the dream, and we realize this by seeing him trying to love a memory that ceased to exist. As we can be led in, we see in the end of chapter 6 that Gatsby throws a party, but he notices Daisy didn’t like it. As F. Scott Fitzgerald states, “’Can’t repeat the past?’ he cried incredulously ‘why of course you can!’” (116) Nick tells Gatsby (in summarization, this is not how he said it specifically) not to feel bad about the past, because you can’t repeat it. Gatsby, in reply, states the quote previously noted. The significance of this quote is that it displays us the feelings Gatsby has for his memories.
We are gradually becoming unable to know right from wrong and Postman believes that we are amusing ourselves to death because we do not even know why and refuse to ask why which Postman sees as a problem in society. However, he believes that this apathetic way of living in a filter bubble can be overcome by schools. To Postman schools are a gateway to conquering decadence however I believe that it is
He is blind because he thinks that he is making the right choice when in reality he is leading himself into chaos. Getting into the middle of the book, Macbeth admits that he is having strange self-delusions. This is most likely his guilty conscience but he is blind to this and ignores it. He explains to lady Macbeth that it is merely just his lack of experience when it comes to crime, “...My strange and self-abuse is the initiate fear that wants hard use. We are yet but young in deed.” (III iv 174-175).
The story has some bad examples, especially if you are a young reader. “Sammy, you don’t want to do this to your Mom and Dad, (A&P, page 298)”. Here is an example of when Sammy quits because he saw the beautiful woman and now he wants to go hang out with them because he is fed up with his store manager. As a young reader, they might get the idea that Sammy did the right thing, while older readers will argue that the story provides teens with bad examples and thus may cause them to think like Sammy when they encounter such situations. A second example I would add is, “But remembering how he made that pretty girl blush makes me so scrunchy inside (A&P, page 298)”.
Gregor spirals into the depths of isolation, loneliness and despair. This story bears resemblance to all of Kafka's work which is in a very unusual setting, but very real and present aspects of the darkness of human and behavior. This is indeed a metaphor of absurdity and dehumanization. What made me feel very sorry for him is actually his attempt to get out of bed because he thinks he cannot lose his job otherwise no one will support the family. Kafka uses five pages to describe Gregor tries so hard to get out of bed and persuades his family and the chief clerk he is alright and he is going to work soon.
Edgar Allan Poe’s writing style in most of his stories is gothic. His writings give a dark and gloomy feeling to the reader. Some of the horrible events that occurred are his parents dying, his foster mother dying, his brother dying, and his wife dying. These events that occurred in Poe’s past life probably caused him to have this type of writing style. He is trying to get the reader to feel as he felt when he went through the hardships in his life.