Curley's wife looks for attention in other people, Candy feels that he is uncared for, and Crooks is treated in a way that he does not deserve. The characters created by John Steinbeck have a feeling of loneliness in their lives to ----------- that each person is affected in different
Willy’s downfall is a result of his reluctance to face his shame, his guilt towards his affair and the way Biff’s life turned out, and the social pressures of success. Willy denies the feeling of shame, affecting him and his family. Willy turns to another woman out of loneliness for Linda, deeply within; his feelings of shame are related to the need of a woman. Shame, inadequacy and inferiority evince the need to “be liked and never want” (Arthur Miller 21). This is apparent within Willy and his sons.
Paul’s hatred for his middle class lifestyle is so strong, that he feels it is necessary to ‘artificially enhance’ his life by lying and stealing. Even though Cordelia street is a respectable neighbourhood, Paul views it as a poor and ugly area, because it lacks the extravagence that represents wealth and to him beauty. In Paul’s world, “the natural nearly always wears the guide of ugliness, that a certain element of artificiality seemed necessary in beauty.” (Paul’s Case, pg. 7). Paul despises his common life so much that he feels he must hid it from his peers through lies.
Crooks, named for his crooked back, is one of the most vulnerable characters on the ranch, mostly due to his race combined with general racist attitudes at the time. He lives by himself because he is the only black man on the ranch, and he has been so beaten down by loneliness and prejudicial treatment of that he is now suspicious of any kindness he receives. Crooks is painfully aware that his skin color is all that keeps him separate in this culture. This outsider status causes him to lament his loneliness, but he also delights in seeing the loneliness of others, perhaps because misery loves company. When Lennie arrives at his room, he turns him away, hoping to prove a point that if he, as a black man, is not allowed in white men’s houses, then whites are not allowed in his, but his desire for company ultimately wins out and he invites Lennie to sit with him.
Prufrock says, “When I am pinned and wriggling on the wall… And how should I presume?” This line is a portrayal of Prufrock’s struggles with life. J. Alfred Prufrock, who is in a depressed state of mind, is talking about how he cannot get up, because he is constantly pinned down. The readers have an opportunity in this particular part of the poem to picture a man being pinned down, trying to get up, but not having the strength to continue. Prufrock also states, “have the strength to force the moment to its crisis? But though I have wept and fasted, wept and prayed… And in short, I was afraid.” This portion of the poem utilizes easy language to allow put together a picture in the readers’ minds.
For ATP, in the first couplet, the speaker is angry at his friend; in the second, at his foe. This difference immediately makes the simple poem less simple. As we continue on reading the couplets are beautifully rhyme, meter and show the importance of the purpose which is tolerance and forgiveness. In TMVTL rhyme is not respect and it too sentimental. The central idea is there but not coherent.
In "The Hunchback in the Park" the writer directly tells us that the character is lonely and doesn't have anyone that loves him because of his appearance and this is shown by saying ' A woman figure without fault Straight as a young elm Straight and tall from his crooked bones That she might stand in the night After the locks and chains'. In the previous sentence the idea of loneliness is emphasized by the conditional tense which suggest the insecurity of the character towards the girl because he doesn't know whether she's going to accept him or not. The absence of punctuation and irregular, inconsistent rhyme in the whole poem could also reflect a lack of stability in the life of the "hunchback". Either of the poems show that the characters are isolated from the society but this isolation is due to different reason, for the first poem the segregation is due to an accident that has caused Alison's head injury whilst in the second poem the loneliness is due to a native reason that cannot be changed. Both poems
The protagonist continually experiences malaise of his general appearance and impotence, revealing his insecure nature through the monologue, questioning to himself, “Do I dare?” and “How should I presume?”. His feelings of inadequacy lead him to retreat into a stream of consciousness, unnerved by silent comments of superficiality. For instance, the lines “With a bald spot in my hair/They will say: “How is hair is growing thin!” emphasise the persona’s priority for acceptance in society. Defeatist attitudes which arose during the Modernist era is also evident through the depiction of inadequacy in Prufrock. The repetition of the refrain “In the room the women come and go/ Talking of Michelangelo” induces feelings of insignificance of the protagonist as he is compared to the great Michelangelo.
In the first stanza the persona is “haunted” by the postcard sent to him. The negative connotation suggests that the persona has encountered an uncomfortable experience and disturbs him, and he in unable to get rid of his past. His culture will always be waiting for him to establish a connection with it. The negative connotation of “haunt” is ironic because something so small and unsubstantial has a great impact on the persona. The postcard becomes a symbol of how distant his identity is from his culture.
His fixation on time throughout the poem symbolizes his fear of getting old. He is experiencing a miserable life, brought upon from his insights of age and his feeling of inadequacy. The poem starts off with Prufrock questioning whether he should attend a social gathering or not, his anxieties toward woman as a single man cause one of his hesitations. However, after examining Prufrock’s argument for avoiding the party, one discovers that his sorrow is not truly due to his deep feeling or coyness towards women. Prufrock’s anxiety lies not with the understanding of a relationship but with the acknowledgment of his aging self and of society’s insight of what a full life coming to its end should need.