By focusing on Less Than Zero 1985 by Bret Easton Ellis and The Accidental Tourist 1985 by Anne Tyler I will explore the primary family groups with reference to any relevant secondary characters I will examine the different relationships the protagonists Clay and Macon have with their families and discuss whether there is any correlation between their upbringing and their situation at home and how they adapt and communicate in the outside world The parents of both Clay and Macon are separated a
What choice would you make between lust and moral obligation The same decision faces Ethan Frome in Edith Whartons novella Ethan Frome In the novella Ethan must choose between staying in his hometown of Starkfield with his wife Zeena or giving into lust and running away with Zeenas cousin and their housekeeper Mattie Silver Ethan knows his obligation to stay with Zeena but he does not actually love her She has no positive characteristics and brings nothing but restrain and burden to Ethan Ethan
Paralysis and the Dubliners Paralysis is described as the failure to take action or make progress In many stories from the Dubliners a character has an aspiration faces obstacles to reach it then eventually concedes and stops all attempts to reach their ultimate goal leaving them in a paralyzed state This paralysis shown by Joyce through the course of the Dubliners expresses the inability for characters to change their lives and reverse the routines that hamper their desires In Araby and Evelin
In William Faulkners A Rose for Emily Emily becomes a woman with many several untold secrets Emily is portrayed as a woman who kept to herself throughout her life However when she dies not everything dies with her and all her secrets are revealed She poisoned her lover and stored him in a room where she laid beside him supposedly due to the indent in the pillow She had a Negro manservant throughout her whole life that went to the market cooked and gardened for her During the end of her life the
Emilys Isolation Having to deal with someone who is in their own world their own different state of mind rather than the regular thoughts people have is difficult Emily Grierson seems to be a woman who keeps to herself and those who are closest to her such as her father Tobe and at one point Homer Barron once those ones who are close to her vanish she resorts to closing off her life in eventual complete isolation from the outside world until her death Emily being the way she is it makes the tow
Edith Wharton establishes patterns of imagery in her book Ethan Frome She associates the imagery and setting with three main ideas winter death and light When we think of winter we think of Zeena and more importantly Ethan When we think of light we always think of Mattie When we think of death we think of different scenes in the book To help support the three main ideas Wharton uses metaphors similes and other uses of figurative language Winter as the setting sets the tone of the story througho
Lazarus of Bethany is the subject of a miracle recounted in the Bible where Jesus restores Lazarus to life after four days of being dead Plath sees herself as the female Lazarus who has been raised from the dead three times and thus a miracle Like the sense of miracle Plath sees her deaths like Lazaruss for they dont fall into the category of usual deaths Sylvia Plath completed her masterpiece Lady Lazarus in the days before her suicide in 1963 while in a condition of disturbance suffering and