She said school is shit and home is shit but she didn’t explain why and Joe never asked. In the novel Joe looked at a photo of Amanda, he had known her all his life. But now it was like he was looking at a total stranger. Joe didn’t really have any secrets but he felt like he didn’t really know his friends at all. These guys never caught up with Amanda to find out to find out what the
Whilst Keller is characterised as reclusive and eccentric, wearing a white linen suit, pince nez, and cloistered above the beer garden at the Swan hotel, he boasts a fine pedigree having Czerny and Liszt as his ‘musical ancestors.’ Goldsworthy characterises Keller’s teaching as eccentric and domineering. In his first encounter with a bemused and outraged Paul, he spends time examining Paul’s fingers, and won’t allow the boy to play, exclaiming, ‘you are not free to play in my home without permission’. When Paul boldly questions Keller’s claim that the ‘little finger is a lazy fellow,’ Keller miraculously, plays ‘an effortless, rippling run of tenths’. Goldsworthy uses sparse, direct dialogue to portray Keller as axiomatic and domineering. Keller’s aphorisms and ‘fragments of folk wisdom,’ such as ‘is water at fifty degrees half boiling?’ (used to castigate Paul for half finishing his Rondo), present a picture of an abrupt, punctilious man with exacting standards; yet Keller can also be viewed as a man broken by the pain of his past, who is more philosophical than ambitious, such as where he explains aphoristically, ‘To search too long for perfection can also
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In the beginning of the book she is excited about her engagement to Gerald although while they are at the dinner table she does question Gerald’s whereabouts last summer when he said he was ‘doing business’. This gives us insight into the fact that Sheila may not be as naive as we think. In the beginning of the play Eric is shown as a bit of a rebellious young man. When we are first introduced to him he is at the dinner table with his family but he has obviously had one too many drinks as he starts saying certain mischievous things and is a bit ‘squiffy’ as Sheila put it. Also even though his father thinks he is such a know-it-all Eric tries to argue with his father over the topic of war, although his efforts are just wasted as Mr Birling just silences him and starts rambling on, but still it shows that Eric isn’t afraid to ask questions and not necessarily believe all the things his father
Nick and Lucy didn’t even go to watch the play “Cosi”. “Going out with Lucy to celebrate the moratorium” (pg. 76) Nick says when Lewis asks “Why don’t you stay to watch it” (pg. 76). it is never clear why Lucy is Lewis’s girlfriend as the play does not show us any affection between the two of them.
In the movie, when he is visited by the ghost of Christmas Future, he runs away from the ghost and shrinks while running into a drain pipe. In both the book and play, this does not happen. In the play, Scrooge is a lot more flirtatious with the maid than in the book and movie. Another difference is that in the play and book, the date that he dies isn’t shown on his gravestone. In the movie, it shows the date of December twenty-fifth on his gravestone.
After Gatsby lost Daisy five years ago to Tom Buchanan, his mission was to bring Daisy back into his life again. He goes to extreme lengths to earn himself a fortune, by bootlegging and additional illegal jobs. He finally gets the house that he desires, or rather the house he believes Daisy will admire, and fills it with objects chosen specifically for the tastes he believes Daisy has. Gatsby’s Gothic mansion is located right on the other side of the bay, across from Daisy and Tom. Gatsby throws lavish parties, swarming with people he barely knows, the kind of people Daisy would want to be seen with, even better, the kind of people Daisy might know.
‘God bless us everyone!’ Dickens is giving the Christmas image which is all about getting together and feasting. Even know the Cratchits were poor, Scrooge saw how happy and thankful the Cratchits are to be together while in contrast Scrooge is very wealthy, yet he is miserable and alone. Ghost of Christmas present told Scrooge if these shadows are unaltered by the future Tiny Tim will die. Scrooge feels guilt and regret about stating that people should just die and decrease the surplus population earlier to the business man. A ghost of Christmas present then took Scrooge to Scrooge’s nephews Christmas dinner and even know Scrooge doesn’t treat his nephew kindly, Scrooge saw how his nephew feels sorry for Scrooge and that Scrooge’s nephew has the decency to raise a tost to Scrooge at the Christmas
Morality aside, she “[walks] through her husband as if he were a ghost” (26), completely disregarding his emotions. Another example of adultery in the novel is Gatsby’s relationship with the married Daisy Buchanan. He finally reunites with his dream girl after five years of separation, however, Tom eventually learns of his wife’s betrayal, “I stared at him[Wilson] then at Tom, who had made a parallel discovery less than an hour before…” (124) He is enraged at the news and sees no justification in Daisy’s actions despite his own unfaithfulness. Tom and Daisy’s disloyalty further projects their lack of respect and
Chapter 7 – Great Gatsby chapter analysis Within this chapter Gatsby, preoccupied by his love for Daisy calls off his parties, which were made primarily to lure Daisy back into his life and after Gatsby has finally reached his goal of luring daisy back into his life, he dismisses all his parties. This is clearly shown within “it was when curiosity about Gatsby was at its highest that the lights in his house failed to go on one Saturday night” the fact that Gatsby’s lights are off signifying that there will be no party causes a lot of suspicion and controversy between people, Fitzgerald does this by cleverly using the word “curiosity”. However the use of past tense in this sentence also accentuates how many people were curious about Gatsby and his mysterious life long before his lights were off. Fitzgerald also writes “his career as Trimalchio was over” Trimalchio is a character in the 1st century AD Roman work of fiction Satyricon by Petronius. Trimalchio is a freedman who through hard work and perseverance has attained power and wealth, Fitzgerald uses this to signify that Gatsby actually is not important among his peer if he’s not throwing a party, or he may mean that the only reason why he is known is due to his parties, the power that Gatsby has attained all comes from his parties.