As shown, Holden is depressed in many ways: he fails in life, he is lonesome, and he still is affected by his brother's death. Holden is a failure because he cannot pass any classes in school, except English, and he cannot do anything right. He is lonely because he simply hates mostly everyone and, therefore, does not have any friends. Holden is depressed by his brother's death because that was his best friend. Holden's depression started with the loss of his best friend/brother and continued on with failure and loneliness throughout the rest of his
This means he is described as fragile and precious because of his injuries, with his punctured lung described as delicate as “parachute silk”. These images show Laura’s tenderness for her husband and how she wants to protect him. Similarly, Scannel also chooses imagery of war for what is really only a minor childhood incident. He refers to the spears of the nettles, calling them a “regiment” and, when he has cut them down and they have grown back again, he refers to them as “tall recruits”. This war and battle imagery used in the poem helps the reader to understand deeper, about the metaphorical meaning of this poem; that it is not just about comforting his son from the pain of the nettles, but also about the future pain of which he knows he will experience in his life.
There is no longer a reason to be angry. The irony of these two stories is in Ordinary People, a death tore the family apart, where in this story, it brought them together. When George dies, Sam completely realizes how much he loves him. He will do anything to keep his father alive, so he finishes the house. Sam’s loss lets him love, and appreciate the rest of his family even more.
In Willam Faulkner’s novel As I Lay Dying the Bundren family has unique and memorable characters, but the most complex of these characters is Darl. An articulate and loving young man, his emotions and sanity are tested by the death of his mother and the plight of his family's burial journey. Unwanted by his mother, Darl showed signs throughout the novel of an ego at odds with itself; lacking a definitive way of identifying himself. He demonstrated this in his narratives by having detailed descriptions of events but rarely did he reveal any emotional attachment to his subjects. His awareness leads him to do some things that make him appear to the rest of his family, who already thought he was strange, as insane.
Each of the Bundrens took the death of Addie in a different way. While Jewel may have seemed to be acting more selfish and irritated than the rest of the family, I believe that it was just his way of expressing his sadness over the death of his mother whom he knew loved him very much. He was also upset that his brother Cash was making her casket right outside of her window so she could see it. “It’s because he stays out there, right under the window, hammering and sawing on that goddamn box. Where she’s got to see him.
They include having many failures, not having any close friends, and the loss of his younger brother Allie. Since his many failures at school, Holden has been in a downward spiral that will eventually lead to his mental break down. Not being able to talk to any close friends makes Holden’s depression much worse. Holden thinks that he should be dead instead of his brother Allie which does not help with his depression. If Holden’s parents had let him go to a school near his apartment he might have been able to establish a few long term relationships.
He is depressed, and in need of someone to talk to and to spend time with. His brother, Allie, was very important to him. When Allie died, Holden was a wreck, and is still affected by it today. He is also mad about his other brother, D.B., for leaving for Hollywood to become a “big time writer.” Holden is severely depressed by prior events in his life, and has no one to turn to for help and advice. In conclusion, the course of events that happened prior to Holden’s attending Pencey had changed who Holden was negatively, and this is apparent in his lack of attempt to become
If he would have used some sort of intellect and compassion in understanding his children’s aching hearts, their emotional collapse could have been prevented. Anse never acted as a stanchion – he by no means showed love or compassion for anyone throughout the book, especially his luckless children. With his inability to take action and foresee situations, Anse’s blatant faults overtly parallel every disaster in the novel. Other characters in As I Lay Dying who were more rational and not part of the Bundren family (Peabody, Samson, Tull) all agreed on Anse’s ruinous and lazy character – “I notice how it takes a lazy man, a man that hates moving, to get set on moving once he does get started off, the same as when he was set on staying still, like it ain’t the moving he hates so much as the starting and the stopping”
He took many photos and felt ‘emotionally spent’ upon leaving the memorial. This is one of the results of his journey- he had learnt more about his grandfather from the register at the memorial and had gotten to feel close to him for once. Throughout his journey, Simon had also met his father’s ‘fuzzy wuzzy angel’ – the man who held him in his arms as he died – Roy. Meeting Roy had given Simon many answers about his father, and allowed him to visit his grave. Visiting his father’s grave was a sentimental experience for Simon.
The purchase of the car by the brothers is the symbolism of the brothers’ relationship through all the ups and downs that they go through. As the relationship between them change so does the condition of the car. Through all the good and the bad the brothers have been through, the car was there the whole time, going through it all with them. It withstood all the traveling they did at the beginning, through the destruction of their relationship, and then the mending of what was left. The story shows how much impact war has on the relationships between family and