The fall of the House of Usher is about a man, Roderick Usher, who lives with his sister in an old family mansion. Both the brother and sister are both withering away as time passes. Roderick feels the need to talk to his old childhood friend, Poe (who is also the narrator), before he passes. Roderick wrote to the narrator of “a mental disorder which oppressed him” (Poe 150). This gives a first impression of the schizophrenia which was mentioned.
ORDINARY PEOPLE Ordinary people (1980) is a psychodrama indicating a disintegration of an upper-class family, staying at wealthy Chicago suburb, followed by the accidental death of elder teenage son and suicidal attempt by the younger one. Devastated by the loss of their older son, well-to-do suburban couple Calvin and Beth are trying to rebuild their lives after their younger son, Conrad, who attempts suicide after the traumatic incidence of his brother’s death. The movie takes its shape when we find that the mother Beth as cold and withdrawn from Conrad, and at times actively hostile to him and to her husband, too. Conrad, recently back home from three months in the hospital after slitting his wrists, is between uneasy and agonized in his high-school and family world. Calvin remains emotionally open
This interpretation would make sense as it leads to an analepsis of the man and his wife arguing. However, the conversation points more towards the man’s feelings towards his son when he almost pleads him not to think that way, “But you have to”. McCarthy constantly uses techniques to represent his idea of Dystopia: location is vital in indicating the relationship the man and the boy have. Conversations between them tend to be less descriptive, in terms of location and emotion, which suggests loneliness but also togetherness. Sentences are short using simple words and lack of punctuation too creates an emptiness on the page once again highlighting their simple,
Beth shuts out Cal from showing her real emotions on her favorite son’s accidental death, and lack of communication with Conrad brings the Jarrett family into an interpersonally distant family. Cal and Beth’s marriage worsens. Cal suggests that Beth sees a therapist, and that was when she knew she had to leave him. Beth leaves the picture, ending with both Cal and Conrad, with a father-son
The narrator learns about Roderick’s issues with fear and paranoia and his sister Madeline’s catalepsy. I believe that by this point, the narrator is ready to head back home. Instead he remains at the house to try to boost Roderick’s spirits, with no prevail. The narrator’s beliefs about the house itself being unhealthy and depressing are confirmed when Madeline dies. The burial of Madeline in the tombs underneath the Usher house disturbs the narrator but also reveals to him that Roderick and Madeline are twins.
While both “The Yellow Wallpaper”, story and movie explores the mystery behind the ‘wallpaper’ the representation of Charlotte (The Wife) differs in certain aspects. Having to watch the movie and also reading the story has led me to see the many differences in the character. However two main contrasts between them are the bedroom she rested in and her child. In addition, you can compare both characters because they became the women behind the yellow wallpaper. At the beginning of the film the husband and wife grieve about the lost of their child from a house fire and they are having a terrible time accepting the fact the child has deceased.
The valley of ashes emulates this moral decay through the unpleasant events that take place there. Nick recognizes the fragile state of George Wilson after he uncovers the truth of Myrtle’s infidelity, “He had discovered that Myrtle had some sort of life apart from him in another world, and the shock had made him physically sick” (124). George is stricken with “shock” upon apprehending the grave news. Myrtle had taken advantage of her husband’s trusting disposition as she fluttered carelessly into “another world” of wealth and glamor. Morality aside, she “[walks] through her husband as if he were a ghost” (26), completely disregarding his emotions.
His hopes of marriage and building a loving new home were crushed after Lydia’s tragic betrayal, when Romulus’s vulnerability to his inner demons was revealed. Raimond describes his father’s condition as “personal disintegration” by which Romulus’s moral world collapsed in the face of what he saw as an incomprehensible situation. He was simply unable to believe that Lydia could present such dishonesty. During his stay in hospital and throughout his continuing illness at Frogmore, the superstitions and hallucinations of evil spirits ruled his life for a time. This life-altering episode aggravated his mental disorder and left him, “unable to whistle or sing with his former innocence and delight in life”.
He insists on having an innkeeper knight him into the chivalric order. Quixote believes that the inn is a castle. Returning home for clothes and money, Quixote is beaten and left for dead. A commoner rescues Quixote and brings him home. The niece and housekeeper deliberate with two of Quixote's friends, the priest and barber, and they decide to destroy Quixote's library, burning many of the books of chivalry.
Raymond Carver well known famous short story writer currently diseased has become one of the most influential American writer’s after his death in 1988. Raymond Carver’s most famous stories written in every language was “Cathedral”. In the story Cathedral a husband and a wife are in disagreement of his wife’s blind friend coming over to stay the night at their home. Consumed by jealousy and judgment the husband’s sarcasm and drug use were reminders of Carver’s own life growing up. The way Carver relates to his characters comes off as unemotional and distant, concluding that his stories were reminders of his own life experiences.