Decisions In Romeo And Juliet And The Glass Menager

Emotions are a huge influence when it comes to making choices in your life. When you act upon those emotions took quickly it will lead to very consequential conclusions. Failing to consider the consequences of one's action can lead to disaster. Not only that but running away and avoiding your problems because of your emotions also lead to these detrimental outcomes. As well, depressing thoughts can also lead to very undesirable results. This is demonstrated in J.D Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye , Ken Roy’s Romeo and Juliet and Tennessee Williams’s The Glass Menagerie. Making decisions based on emotions leads to negative outcomes. When failing to consider all the consequences to your actions it can lead to negative outcomes. When Romeo

As Juliet attempts to run away from her problems rather than facing them it leads to more complicated results. Rather than owning up to her actions to her parents, Juliet ends up lying and creating a whole illusion to conceal her marriage with Romeo (4.1.23-120). We can see that this only resulted in disaster for everyone. This can also be seen when Laura is running away from her problems. On the first day of business college, Laura let her emotions get the best of her which led to her dropping out of school (Williams 32). We can see how her small decision spiraled into a greater problem. As well, this is also evident when Tom leaves the family. In the end Tom makes the decision to leave his family behind and pursue his dreams, however it just resulted in him not being able to forget about his family (Williams 115). Driven by his emotions, the fight between Tom and his mother ended up resulting in only negative outcomes. Similarity, when Holden is constantly running away from his problems. Even from the very start Holden “...started running down the other side of the hill,towards old spencer's house.” (Saliner 7). As we progress, we can see Holden running away from many other problems he