Opportunities he was once possessed are now gone along with the best years of his life. It is for this reason that Flick feels the need to dribble an inner tube, not because he wishes to make people laugh, but because he longs to know that his life has not been wasted. He wants to believe that he will not fade away into the backdrop of just another stereotypical kid who had a lot of potential. As a reader one cannot help but feel empathetic towards Flick’s situation because despite the fact that his town sees him as a legend, to rest of the world he is just another gas station employee. Updike is able to communicate such in the final two lines of the fourth stanza, saying “His hands are and fine and nervous on the lug wrench./ It makes no difference to the lug wrench though”.
I don't know why his Levi's always bleached like that, along the seams and at the knees.” (Tallent) Since he has a wife and a young mistress, he has no need to care about his look. Also, Jack is a selfish person who only cares about himself. Usually, cheaters do not look out for others but themselves. He demonstrates it in several ways. “I was sitting beside him scratching at the lock, which didn't seem to want to work, when he thought he saw his wife's Cadillac in the distance, coming toward us.
In the beginning of the story he is somewhat immature in the ways he views life. He is a daydreamer, which is shown numerous times in his talk of the three young girls. He is selfish when he quits his job with no regard to how it will affect his parents who may have to support him now or Lengel who has had to take over his job as cashier. Sammy show a sympathetic side by getting upset when Queenie becomes embarrassed, he also shows devotion by sticking to his decisions even after he realizes they were not wrong. By the end of this story Sammy shows how his characteristics have changed from that of a young man with no worries to that of a man by realizing how hard life would be on him and everyone who loves
Holden wants to unite himself with allie because she is a perfection to him. Holden regrets for what his decision was from the past up until now , and since Allie is dead, whenever Holden gets depressed, he does a penance, telling Allie out loud, "Okay. Go home and get your bike and meet me in front of Bobby's house. Hurry up." Holden tries to contain his feelings for her because she was the only girl that was perfect, it tells the readers that he isn't all that insane as he reveals his feelings.
Detached From Society Chris Chandless was an adventurer. He loved the fact that each day he had the possibility of being exciting, different, or even dangerous. Chris was different in the way he wanted to experience life. He wanted to be alone and took no joy in the various human relationships that he had developed in his travels. Chris showed that he was a loner and did not value these relationships by his disregard for normal society and only took pleasure in challenging himself.
He “ranged freely over music, literature, art, and other subjects,” but could not agree with what was taking place at Coney Island. Critics like him who had visited the island could not deny the fun environment, but felt that when people arrived a Coney Island, they lost their mind and moral values. Not only were they concerned about human character; they were also concerned about the economy as a whole. Coney Island was changing America “from a ‘pain economy,’ where scarcity of resources demanded a struggle for subsistence, to a ‘pleasure economy,’ in which abundance was potentially available to all” (Kasson 90). People would avoid sin to be sure not to be punished by unemployment and bad economic standings, but without this fear, it was unknown what citizens of the United States would start acting like.
In doing so, we see how essential not only it is for Lennie to gain another friend in times of loneliness, but for Crooks as well. Being secluded from companionship like Crooks is, he becomes dependent on Lennie for moments like those to remind him that he is still a human being. Lennie, like George, also doesn’t want to risk losing a friend over something minor. When Lennie wanted some ketchup and he saw that he made George angry by continuously asking for what they don’t have, he immediately apologized and said “I wouldn’t eat no ketchup, George. I’d leave it all for you.
Homer would give Emily rides around town in his buggee so the townspeople believed that they were beginning to become a couple. Then once everyone saw Emily buying men’s toilet sets and bridal things for a man, the townspeople then began to think that they were now married. After a while, the people noticed that Homer was not in town and they thought it was just because he was going to get his home ready for Ms. Emily to move into, but in reality that was not really the case. After a few town meetings and a few complaints, people noticed that there was a foul odor that surrounded Emily’s house and the mayor did not want to say anything to her because he thought it would be wrong and disrespectful to Ms. Emily to tell her that she smelled. So the townspeople took that problem into their own hands and decided to sprinkle lye in her yard in the middle of the night when she was sleeping.
Once is not enough for Mr. Raywift, as he commits this same fallacy in paragraph six. He appears to disregard the “intelligence” of his readers when he introduces irrelevant evidence to support his position. His discussion of traffic problems in the afternoon is a case in point. The heavy traffic on Lincoln Avenue, Marquand Avenue, and West Main Street during the afternoon rush hour has no bearing on his conclusion that overnight parking should be eliminated. This irrelevancy, perhaps, reveals the true reason for this letter to the editor: He is perturbed by the inconvenience of his thirty-five minute drive home in the afternoons.
However, the hunger artist questions the importance of his unconventional art at two separate points. He admits that fasting is easy, although no one believes him. His last words also lend insight to his feelings towards his profession when he ironically tells the overseer