Betrayal is one trait that appears on many occasions in the novel Great Expectations. One occasion when the characters betray another is shown between Pip and Miss Havisham. Miss Havisham is the wealthy, eccentric old woman who lives in a manor called Satis House near Pip’s village. When Pip receives his expectations, Miss Havisham deceives Pip into believing that she is his benefactor. When Pip finds out that she is not, he is greatly upset that she led him on and that he will never be with her beautiful adopted daughter, Estella.
Risky Powder The relationship between a father and a son is complex. Despite the undeniable bond between them as both men, there comes a time when one grows more distant from the other and both grows apart despite the fact that they are growing more and more alike each other. In the brief and haunting short story by Tobias Wolff entitled “Powder,” Wolff explores this tenuous relationship to tell the story of how a distant relationship between one reckless father and his conscientious son is breached as the son, in retrospect, makes sense of his father’s misunderstood character. The story is told in the perspective of a narrator much older than he was in the actual narrative. He begins with a telling description of his father, setting the
He describes his lower class upbringing in the exposition, his slow but steady progression to middle class in the rising action, and his poorly considered big move to a substancial home putting him in major dept and forcing to become an adjunct professor for extra income in the climax. He concludes saying he finds it difficult to teach denouement, the part of the story where “the characters resume something akin to normal life”(p.72), because he’s not sure if it actually exists. Throughout the read thus far, i’ve found Professor X’s writing sarcastic and even amusing. It gives a playful undertone to his otherwise pessimistic outlook on what he’s writing about. He often references american classic novels, or historical events and puts himself in the event sarcastically blowing off whatever major event is occurring.
It was a dream of rising from the lowest point in our society and to become wealthy and well-known which would make them feel happy. Gatsby has this dream however he is overwhelmed by luxury that comes along with wealth and he does not see that money cannot buy him love and happiness. His dreams get corrupted by the snobbish people that surround him. Gatsby gets everything he wanted, he is rich and famous he even has an entanglement with Daisy – the love of his life and his other dream. However he is still unhappy, not until Daisy leaves Tom.
If, after his betrothed dies, he immediately starts wooing another girl, his reputation as a fine and upstanding gentleman will be ruined, and he will be hard-pressed to find a new wife of appropriate status. Juliet’s family, the Capulets, are influential, upper-class citizens, and so would be highly offended if Paris does not pay his respects to their deceased daughter. He would also lose the respect of Prince Escales, ruler of their city Verona, who refers to Paris as one of his “…brace of kinsmen (5. iii. Ln 295).” Paris may also entertain the pretense of love for Juliet in order to advance himself both economically and politically in society. If he cuts off his ties with Juliet’s family, they would not be eager to support his future exploits.
This is confirmed by Gatsby saying “her voice is full of money,” her obsession with money suggests why she stays in her miserable marriage with Tom Buchanan (115). However, Gatsby’s optimism and naivety lead him to conclude that he can win her over with his new found fortune. Unfortunately, his failure to see the irony in his situation is what ultimately leads him to his demise. The purity of the green light is a direct contradiction of the impure, self centered and materialistic woman Daisy truly is. Gatsby’s eagerness to accumulate wealth to enter Tom and Daisy’s world is also a clear violation of his pure dream; in reality their world is despicable and not the paradise that Gatsby imagines it to be.
This is proof that Daisy is in it for the money and is now leaving Tom Buchanan for Jay Gatsby. Gatsby happened to be her old love that was to poor for her until after the war. Though Daisy’s expensive taste starts to expose itself, an even more unfriendly Daisy Buchanan starts to
But in the end this wealth causes problems amongst the characters. Wealth corrupts, destroys morality, and negatively affects Gatsby, Daisy, Wolfsheim, Wilson, Tom, Myrtle and party goers. Gatsby’s desire to have Daisy affects him negatively. Before the war Gatsby loves Daisy and Daisy loves Gatsby. But Daisy says that “rich girls don’t marry poor boys” this leads for Gatsby to do anything to acquire wealth so that he can have Daisy.
The people he has convinced of reasonable doubt are “goddam geniuses” and “smart bastards” who have been “bulldozed by bunch’a what d’ya call ‘em – intellectuals.” The inference here is not necessarily that the 10th Juror is stupid (though the 9th Juror does say of the 10th that “It suddenly occurs to me that you must be an ignorant man”) and the 8th Juror smart, but that education can create a class division and that those without an education can become suspicious of those that do because intellectualism can be used to manipulate people. The 10th Juror is not convinced by the testimony of “phoney psycho whatever-you-call-it-stuff” (i.e the psychiatrist’s report) but by the instinctive believe in class. The boy must have done it because of his social
Yulia Vassilyevna knows that her employer is mistreating her but she does not complain. In the end the employer gets upset with her because she did not stand up for herself and pays her the eighty rubles that he had owed her. The conflict in the story is character vs. character in which the employer is tricking the governess, Yulia. There is also an