Compare and contrast the ways in which Miller in Death of a Salesman, Page 104 from ‘And I never got anywhere’ until the end, and Tony Harrison in Bookends, explore what is meant by alienation and ‘success’. In this essay I am going to explore the ways in which the two different writers use theme, character and language to comment on contextual issues. Also I am going to apply analytical skills in comparing authors’ uses of language and form in different genres. Death of a Salesman is a tragedy about people’s family dreams and values in contrast to their own real lives. This play was published in 1949 by a famous and well known author named Arthur Miller.
Edith Whartons novella Ethan Frome portrays the opposite of a man chasing “The American Dream.” The story is set in Starkfield, New England in the early 1900’s. Ethan, the protagonist of the novel was called back to his parent’s farm from college because his father had suffered from a head injury. That event changed the rest of Ethan’s life. The story unfolds as an anonymous narrator discovers the mystery behind the tragic situation. Throughout the novel, Ethan Frome, traditional gender roles are focused upon.
Thierry Charlemagne Professor Fiedler Short Essay #2 19 July 2012 Edith Wharton’s “The Other Two”: A literary analysis. In Edith Wharton’s story “The Other Two” readers explore the life of Mr. Waythorn, an upper-class Wall Street gentleman, as he narrates the intricate dilemma he’s thrust into shortly after he and his new bride Alice Waythorn arrive home. In this predicament, Mr. Waythorn inadvertently encounters the two ill-thought of former husbands of his new wife. These encounters, however, slowly force Mr. Waythorn to swallow a hard and bitter reality. One in which he is the last of three men to be played a fool.
Though Gatsby may be mysterious, Fitzgerald’s style may be disillusioned, the eyes of Doctor T.J. Eckleburg may be god-like and awe-inspiring, and Daisy’s love for Gatsby may seem “possible,” each is a catalyst for the transpiration of illusion in the individual’s attempt in finding reality. One of the more prominent examples of illusion seen as reality in The Great Gatsby is when Jay Gatsby himself, during a party of his own creation, is rumored to be more than what he actually is: a young, naive dreamer. This is shown by
Great Gatsby Treasure Hunt 1) F. Scott Fitzgerald- Major influence on his life and writing . In June 1918 Fitzgerald was assigned to Camp Sheridan, Alabama. He fell in love with Zelda Syre 18 yrs old. His romance intensified and hopes for success for his novel but was rejected by Scribners for the second time. When the war ended he was sent overseas and in 1919 he went to New York to seek fortune to marry.
In Jhumpa Lahiri’s novel, Interpreter of Maladies, we are exposed to a mix of stories and a huge variety of characters. The book shows us the difficulties of Indian immigrants in their daily lives. In the first story, Sexy, we see an Indian man named Dev, who is married, involved in a relationship with a tall, pretty American lady named Miranda. The main obstacle that blocks Dev from succeeding in continuing his relationship with Miranda is his attitude towards the relationship. In the next story, A Temporary Matter, we see a man named Shukamar who tries to patch things up with his wife after their newborn son dies at birth.
Sadly, in 1940 he died from a heart attack at the age of 44. Scott Fitzgerald uses various elements of fiction throughout his novel “The Great Gatsby”. He uses elements such as imagery to convey the freshness and innocence of Nick’s romantic appreciation of New York and of Gatsby’s dream, and then contrasting imagery to convey the disillusionment as events unfold. Fitzgerald also uses elements like oxymorons and paradoxes to achieve a particular effect. With the usage of various elements of fiction, Fitzgerald reveals the hidden meaning in sentences, characters and phrases.
In the novel The Great Gatsby written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, the story starts off slow. We meet a character named Nick, we know very little about him. The facts he chooses to present to us are short. All that was said was that he grew up in a respectable Chicago family and went to Yale. He likes literature and considers himself one of those specialists known as a "well-rounded man," and he works in the bond business in New York City.
Mark Twain would continue to explore this tradition of the black buffoon as scapegoat for white humor long after his experience in the West was over, Samuel Clemens reached the peak of his race prejudice during the Western years, this was until as an adult soon after his arrival in the East in 1867, and locations where prejudice was not as common he entered as a potential member of the eastern establishment, as well as the son-in-law of a man who had been a leading conductor on the New York underground railway before the war and a public man of letters under pressure to re-evaluate some of his more extreme feelings about the Negro. Twain in fact did begin to shift his emotional allegiance (the kind he valued most) to a partly reconstructed
Browning’s poem ‘The Patriot’ is the familiar ‘old story’ of a man whom was once celebrated but has since fallen from grace and is now facing death by hanging. Browning structures his story in six stanzas, each of five lines, which each narrate a separate stage in the narrator’s rise and subsequent dramatic fall. Browning’s use of roman numerals helps to reinforce the linear chronology of the poem and to suggest a causal connection between the narrator’s actions, whilst in power, and his downfall. Browning’s choice of setting in the unspecified past, as suggested by the epigraph ‘an old story’ and the archaic vocabulary choices such as ‘Alack’ and ‘trow’ and an unspecified European city, as suggested by the ‘church-spires’ which ‘flamed’ with the flags of celebration that welcome the patriot in the opening stanza, make this narrative almost universally applicable to the rise and fall of leaders and icons, whether political, religious or cultural in any time or place. Indeed it could be argued that this poem reflects aspects of Browning’s own, often fruitless, pursuit of popular recognition and critical acclaim in his own lifetime.