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The Contents of a Dead Man’s Pocket is a story based on the literary element man vs. self, at first, I thought this was a man vs. nature since Tom, the protagonist has a dilemma throughout the story. But it seems that the conflict he had was not when he went outside to retrieve his paper, but in a broader view, he has a conflict with his life, with his decisions, and with his marriage. The story takes place by Tom being busy at work while his wife was getting ready to go out. Tom insists to his wife that he must finish his work in order to get promoted. While Tom was working, some of his papers blow out of the window. Tom hesitating to go, he is deciding if it 's worth the cost to retrieve his work that been really long and hard to do. He measures the ledge for both his legs and his arms, while he was brainstorming, he finds it funny for some reason. As he goes to retrieve his paper, both his physical and mental state has been focus into this moment of his life. As he slowly goes on the ledge, he looks at another direction so he would be moved emotionally by the height of the building. But as he is forced to look down to retrieve his paper, his foot slips slightly. And at that moment, he freezes up against the side of the building, he starts remembering all of his moments when he was “Alive”, when he actually enjoyed his …show more content…

Which is why he starts laughing. Hills like white elephants is a story based on man vs self since the topic of this story would be jig, the girl. She refers to the hills like “white elephants”, she is referring the elephants to her unborn baby. You can also recall the expression,”There’s an elephant in the room” because of something painfully obviously no ones wants to

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The Night His Life Flashed Before His Eyes Have you ever had your life flash before your eyes? That is how it feels when you read the story, “ Contents of the Dead Man’s Pocket” by Jack Finney. In this story the protagonist Tom is in a situation where he realizes his life is flashing before his eyes and how he hadn’t enjoyed it because of his job. Through the use of the Literary elements such as foreshadowing, manipulation of time, and setting we can note that the author uses suspense and tension in the story “Contents of the Dead Man”. To begin with, The literary element foreshadowing is used in this story on multiple occasions.

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Tom thinks about how if he dies, the only thing in his pocket will be a sheet of paper with calculations and observations about a grocery story. He thinks about how to the people that find him, it will mean nothing. He thinks to himself, “Contents of the dead man’s pockets, he thought with a sudden fierce anger, a wasted life.” (p 123) He realizes that he has wasted his life focusing on things that are not important.

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The story of “The Contents of the Dead Man’s Pocket” in my opinion should have a happy ending. My happy ending for the story would go along the lines of him fixing himself after the window incident like cleaning all the glass pieces off of him and cuts. Then to go surprise his wife at the movie theatres and bring her something nice. He would then apologize saying sorry and that he’s going to spend as much time as he can with her. He’ll hug her and stuff, saying I love you and then they’ll both watch the movie together, happy as can be.

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