In the preceding month, whilst Tom had come home each night to an empty wine bottle, or a half-filled glass of Whiskey, and looked in on his wife, every time asleep in their bed, the man had also drunk. Not to excess, but just enough to dull the pain of the frozen relationship with Lila, and their failing marriage. He'd have beer and scotch on his breath, and often scratches on his arms, scrapes on his face, or bruises on his knuckles, from where'd he'd taken exception to a comment made by a fellow officer in the Bar all frequented, or gotten himself into a fight because a member of the public had looked at him the wrong way when he'd stumbled to his car. Better them than Lila.
Nevertheless, it is evident that alcohol was involved, and Tom was drunk. It is apparent that many of Tom’s relationships suffer from his uncontrollable, excessive drinking combined with his outrageous fits of
The novel suggests that alcohol can have deadly effects on families, leading to loved ones dying both directly of alcohol but also
Studies show that alcoholism is linked to domestic abuse, mental illness, and deterioration of familial ties; Stephen King displays this linkage through his novel, The Shining. Studies have shown that alcoholism is known to lead to mental illnesses, causing the victim to be both mentally unsound as well as insecure of himself. This mental unsoundness and insecurity lead to a higher likelihood of committing domestic violence, which is also enhanced or triggered by alcohol abuse. King shows that alcoholism is directly influential to emotional instability and how it can lead to domestic violence, ultimately destroying families plagued with alcohol abuse. In addition, King’s story shows how males were the predominantly alcoholic gender throughout
One example of Rex’s unreliability due to alcohol was his failure to take care of his kids even when he had the resources to do so. Rose Mary gave Jeannette money to help pay for the bills and food, while she went to Charleston to renew her teaching certificate. She knew her husband couldn’t be trusted so she gave it to Jeannette. Rex asked Jeannette for the money and he spent it all on alcohol. He proved alcohol was more important than his kids.
In the short story “The Black Cat,” by Edgar Allan Poe he created a mood that was uneasy and slowly inclined to disgust by creating a character that is addicted to alcohol, having a black cat around in the story, and by driving the narrator to cover up a murder. First, the mood of unease can affect the readers on page one when it says “I grew, day by day, more moody, more irritable, more regardless of the feelings of others.” Even though the narrator has not yet committed a crime, he is more at risk to hurt something or someone at some point in the story. Also, on page one the unease and the beginning of disgust can be found when the narrator wrote “...my wife, who at heart was not a little tinctured with superstition, made frequent allusion
No matter which short story by Edgar Allan Poe one analyzes, one common trait among all of them is apparent instantly: all of them are scary, unsettling, and at times downright horrifying. Many stories feature death, which serves as a powerful tool for the motivation of characters and the outcome of their decisions. Another element commonly met in numerous stories by Poe is the supernatural one. It is often implemented subtly to the point that the reader may start to wonder whether the narrator in the story loses his/her mind, or something beyond human that influences the flow of events. If you look at Poe's arguably most famous short stories "The Black Cat" and "The Cask of Amontillado" they appear to be quite different since the main characters
Again, there is alcohol involved. Alcohol is not in itself bad, just the way that people abuse it and use it as a crutch can be detrimental. Stanley’s temper slowly begins to unravel as the night progresses until finally he snaps. Stella just turned the radio on again for the second time that night, and Stanley loses it: “He crosses to the small white radio and snatches it off the table. With a shouted oath, he tosses the instrument out the window” (57).
Many authors who struggle with addiction use their writing as a way to express themselves through various characters. One prime example is F. Scott Fitzgerald, the author of The Great Gatsby, who reportedly “began drinking at a young age and it became such a common force in his life that alcoholics appear as central characters throughout his writing”. This connections with alcohol in Fitzgerald’s writing reflect the traits of an alcoholic author. Fitzgerald wrote a lot about alcohol and he may have used this to satisfy his alcoholic desires: “So drunk out on the gravel drive that Mrs. Ulysses Swett's automobile ran over his right hand” (Page 62).
However, for other people, it dulls the pain of their troubles so they use alcohol as a coping mechanism or a stress reliever. In the case of Emily Meadows, the matriarch of Carson McCullers’ short story “A Domestic Dilemma”, I believe Emily used alcohol to cope with a terrible suspicion she had that was not disclosed in the story but minutely alluded to in a Freudian manner and if Martin had been inclined, he could have gotten her
Alcohol abuse and dependence is among one of the most prevalent issues in the United States today. It is known to help individuals cope with personal issues and to fix his or her’s emotions positively. However, in relationships like marital, family, and friends, the opposing people can be the target source of negative affection, and may tend to leave them from his or her own fear. In the novel Rabbit, Run, John Updike argues that a partner leaves their spouse in a tough situation when it affects them well enough, eventually making the other partner turn to alcohol to mend his or her problems.
When people think of Gothic literature what usually pops into their mind is blood, torture, death without violence in trapment it wouldn’t be a Gothic story. there are a few stories that show these themes The state of being caught in or trapped is entrapment. The Black Cat by Edgar Allan Poe is about a man and his cat and it shows how making bad decisions and bad addictions can change a person. Addiction can change someone into something they don’t recognize and trap them “in this felon’s cell” (3 Poe) where they don’t belong.
In this essay, “Let in Snow”, Sedaris proves that alcohol abuse can have a lasting effect on an entire family. He provided several examples from his own childhood experiences that described the effects alcoholism has on the family. He gained the audience’s trust by sharing his own experiences to prove and argue his point of view. Therefore, Sedaris made an extremely strong case against
Imagine a worm eating inside of an apple. Worm holes are apparently chaotic and they go through a tricky route through the core of the apple. We give this worm the name of alcoholism. By analogy we say that the apple is the family which in more distant times had good and harmonious relationships, constructive communication that exists between family members with love and mutual understanding and uniting them at good and at hard times. But the apple has a guest uninvited, now we deal with an intruder, who almost completely changed the appearance, nature and quality of relationships between family members, especially between husband and
In addition to addictive properties alcohol also may cause violent outbursts in the case of the drunk. The example of violent behavior in “Counterparts” would be when the drunken Farrington returns home and chastises and soon after beats his son (63). In the time of Joyce’s writings it was still legal to “punish” their children, as Farrington did. Even then he was not truly beating him out of punishment but out of aggravations over that day. This includes being chastised at work, being beaten at arm wrestling at the pub, being insulted by the woman at the pub, and in the end coming home to find his wife missing.
