Comparing Foster's Pride And Prejudice

Most mothers tell their children that in the rain they’ll catch a cold or worse their death, but to Mrs. Bennet in Pride and Prejudice its good husband-catching weather. It may not necessarily be raining men but to Mrs. Bennet it very well may be. She knows that it is expected to rain yet tells her daughter not to take the carriage, which is why Jane falls ill and prolongs her stay at the Bingsley’s. In this case, the rain demonstrations Mrs. Bennet’s “gardening skills” to fix Jane up with Mr. Bingsley in attempts to get their relationship to flourish.
Cormac McCarthy delivers an abundant foray of violence in No Country for Old Men. In this, a man who finds millions of dollars in a drug deal gone wrong is pursued by psychopathic hitman and

My own interpretations of the book changed significantly over the course of Foster’s book. Before reading Foster’s book, I saw the basic summary details: vain Adonis-like youth sells his soul to remain forever young. I understood that being unchanged could be seen as a way to cheat death, lose faith in his god, and develop his own god-like complex where he can sin without fear of retribution. I understood the contradictory nature of his setting had the same message as possible themes and conflicts within Dorian. (His constant use of making comparisons to flowers—things that are beautiful in their blossoming but are doomed to wither away.) With all that and others in mind I thought I was doing a decent job at interpreting the book, but looking back I can see how I had only grazed the surface of the story. Right after the chapter on markings, it did have a snippet Dorian Gray, I thought more in-depth about the things Foster said throughout the book. It kept nagging me throughout the day and kept me up at night until I had an epiphany. The Picture of Dorian Gray is Lucifer’s fall from Heaven. To be honest I am not overtly religious so there may be some discrepancies but I think I have the gist of it. Art represents God (abstract, everywhere, expressing emotion), and Basil is an extension of that he creates the world in his choosing and believes that Gray can be redeemed even after looking upon the state of his soul. Whenever, he creates Dorian’s portrait he creates the perfect version of him, an angelic form of him if you will. Henry is also introduced opposite of Basil, he can represent Dorian’s own devil on his shoulder coercing him to sin. When Dorian meets Henry, he realizes that he will never live up to the seemingly better version of himself, so he wishes to be better than it. The wish is granted creating a schism in himself the painting/angelic form that bears