Surviving Success To become an American success a person has to have the perfect life of money luxury family and work in the pre civil war era after the civil war people suddenly found that the people who had the best lives were the people who were the happiest Not everyone looked upon happiness as being successful but for most Americans happiness became more important than money or social standing like with Edna in The Awakening the outcasts in The Outcasts of Poker Flat Huck in The Adventures
Miss Brill In the story Miss Brill the main character Miss Brill is influenced as the story progresses This influence is caused by the society she lives in and it is enough to change her general thought and attitude When the story begins Miss Brill is very happy and excited as she opens a box that contains her fur scarf This is evident because she exclaims how sweet it was to see the sad little eyes snap up at her again from the red eiderdown and how she could have taken it off and laid it on h
AMERICAN FICTION LEVEL 3 Reality invaded by dream Borges How apt a title would this be for an essay on representing America Answer with specific reference to ONE OR MORE texts The subject of our study hinges round a quotation by Jorge Luis Borges which encapsulates in a paradoxical phrase two notions which are essential to grasp the gist of American writing about America This antithesis opposing and uniting the notion of reality and reality brings back to mind themes which have been largely pic