Stage 1 English Text analysis Sace# 798905X “How does writer Annie Proulux’s use the stylistic features of setting, symbolism and assumed gender roles to explore concepts?” No one has time to listen to the news- with to what seems like a never ending cycle of quiet disappointment Annie Proulux’s “Job history” follows the life of Leeland Lee a high school dropout in Cora, Wyoming attempting to find a stable successful career in a country going through a recession to support his wife and children. Ideas of discontent and human impact are exemplified through stylistic features of setting, symbolism and assumed gender roles.
(John McCormick) Gacy’s homosexual desires and urges to hurt others were becoming more and more apparent to those around him. By 1975, Carole and Gacy had drifted apart. Their sex life had come to a halt and Gacy would have unpredictable and sometimes violent mood swings. Carole had started to find magazines of young men and boys in the house. When asked, Gacy acted like it was a normal thing.
Sexuality between Dick and Perry is explored as well as Perry and Dick’s individual sexualities. The Clutters are the first example of normality seen in ‘In Cold Blood’. They
Final Paper Throughout history, man has often used written word to openly share and communicate thoughts and ideas universally. Gore Vidal’s novel The City and the Pillar is no exception as Vidal explores the struggles of homosexuality in a pre-World War II era. Jim Willard, the main character whose lens we peer through to catch a glimpse of life as a homosexual male in the late 1930s to 1940s, is not described in the novel as a effeminate or flamboyant as was stereotypical for gay characterization at the time. Instead, he is portrayed as a very, for lack of a better term, normal athletic young adult male, which is a key factor in Jim’s confusion throughout his ventures in self-discovery. Above all else though, Jim Willard’s character can
Blame and Pride in Spunk by Zora Neale Hurston The story centers around a love trio between a self-assured man, a feeble husband, and his deceitful wife. The above-mentioned group is unpredictable, also the first to experience blame, from the bar frequenting townsfolk who do nothing but den at the bar and gossip all day. They notice that resident Lena Kanty walks off with “giant of a tan-skinned man”. Spunk, who is not her husband. The men at the store begin talking about the occurrence, and about Spunk.
Fitzgerald derides America’s image of the quintessential family by revealing Tom and Daisy’s marital issues. The ideal was to have a flawless marriage; one that expressed love for not only each other, but their children. Tom and Daisy’s is found to be anything but faultless. Early on, Nick becomes aware that, “Tom’s got some woman in New York” (15). To a reader of that time period, an ideal marriage
In the early stages of the 20th Century, much of the United States began to see the country’s culture and history start to take form and adapt to the rest of the world. A large part of this transformation rooted from themes of dishonesty, immorality, and infidelity that came from the upper class. Known for hosting lavish parties, illegal activity and frequent affairs, many began to see how skewed this morality had come to be. While this had become the norm of the upper class at the time, it is attributed to having shaped part of the nation’s culture and formed what the time period is known for today. In the book, The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald demonstrates how the morals of the upper class are skewed and the overall effect of this immorality to the country through Tom Buchanan’s hypocrisy and affairs as well as through
New York in the mid nineteenth century was a place that allowed individuals to embrace freedom of movement and possibilities that would otherwise be unknown to a more classical setting. However, men and women of the rising culture became the victims of their own creation. The case of Mary J. Rogers also shows how manipulation lied within those who wanted to mold public policy into their own
Thesis: F. Scott Fitzgerald accurately depicts dishonestly and hypocrisy within the upper class in his characterization of the West Eggers within “The Great Gatsby”. In the 1920’s American morality changed drastically as a result of World War I. Many young men and women were forced to leave their comforts zones, and as a result, experienced a freedom they had never experienced. Men experienced women and drinking at a young age, and women finally had a chance to enter the workforce, and as a result the mind-set shifted from family and other orientated to focusing on one the self. Many people became hypocritical, unfaithful, and dishonest, especially in the upper class.
Between World War I and the Great Depression, the 1920’s were unique and special years in American history. The best way to represent that time would be by historian Frederick Lewis Allen providing the historical account of America in the 20’s in Only Yesterday and F. Scott Fitzgerald’s famed novel, The Great Gatsby. Both of them reflect America in the Twenties by showing lifestyles and behaviors of people who lived in that time. We can follow their beliefs, actions, and morality through the works. While Allen was seeking to capture a decade, F. Scott Fitzgerald did a good job by pointing to the main issues during that time.
In her autobiography, I Came a Stranger Hilda Polacheck reveals the conflicting role of women in the late 19th / early 20th century as workers, caregivers, and social activists in a conflicting age of progress, hardship and missed expectations. Coming from a very traditional Jewish family in Poland it seems that Polacheck was destined to be a full time mother and wife never having immersed herself in the American society where women were becoming more and more relevant. The death of her father changes all of this forcing herself, her mother, and her siblings to fight for survival. This fight is not only what transformed Hilda Polacheck into the woman we remember her as today, but into an American . At age thirteen and even much later after her husband’s death forced Polacheck to go to work to keep her family fed and clothed.
In John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men, the era of the Great Depression in the 1930’s is revealed through a simple story of ranch workers who hope to improve their lives. Migrant workers, George and Lennie, have a friendship that is based on trust and protection. The other workers lack the companionship and bond that these two men have. In the novel, the absence and presence of friendship is the motivation for the characters’ actions.
The bush context of masculinity was linked to strength of body and character whereas within the city it was linked to providing for a family. The Doll’s Roo and Barney didn’t even need to speak for people to see their masculinity and gave an impression that men working in the city and living in the suburbs paled into comparison ‘After that, without a word, the regulars’d stand aside to let ‘em through – as if they were a couple of kings.’ (Lawler 10). Nancy gave up her fantasies of these rugged bush men and opted for a life of normalcy by marrying the book store owner, showing that it can be more enticing and masculine for a man to provide a stable home environment. With the ever increasing suburbia the figure of the Outback hero was being displaced as the national archetype and commenced to recede into a figurative as well as literal peripheral outback (Cousins).
Both Spencer and Ostrander within their writings tackle the very sticky issue of God 's place in a college students life and even more challenging his role within higher education. Spencer within his writing “The Good,The Bad and The Ugly” goes about dealing with this challenging issue by breaking down the issue into two questions: What is education? And What is an appropriate attitude toward education? While answering the second question concerning the attitude Spencer talks about two different attitudes one can hold. The first being the philosopher and the second being the drug addict, Spencer even takes the concept of the drug addict and breaks it down even further into two types of addiction, one being the addiction to the
So American men work so hard and often “die at his desk with a bottle of benzedrines in one hand and a packet of tranquilizers in the other.” After overworking, these men will go to the clubs of men sharing one another with stories. The stories they share are always alike, which contain three main characters: “the husband, the wife, and the dirty dog.” The husband is the one representing
