The young man doesn’t see any other reason for someone to kill himself or herself for any other reason besides money. He seems the café just at a place of work, but in contrast to the old man seem the well lighted place, where he “liked to sit late because he was deaf and now at night it was quiet and he felt the difference”. The younger waiter is more impatient and is ready to go home to his “wife waiting in bed.” He cares very little about the old man’s need for a dignified refuge at night. The young man believes that his life has purpose, in the form of his marriage and job. The older waiter can relate to this man, for he has nowhere to go after work as well.
H/W 25/2/13 How does John Betjeman create a sense of identity in “On a portrait of a deaf man” and one other poem John Betjeman creates a sense of identity in various ways. The poem is a tribute to his deceased father and the stark realization he believes in as he is very direct about death. Betjeman often writes about loneliness and death as he was passionate about the English way of life, which he believed to be dying out. The poem creates a fond memory of Betjeman’s father as it recalls many of his inconsequential actions and behavior. Betjeman does not use any euphemisms when talking about death to show that he has accepted it.
He justifies closing the bar an hour early and kicking the deaf Old Man out by seeing himself at home, with his wife ,in bed being a better use of that hour. He doesn’t know, or care enough to inquire as to why the Old Man chooses to come out to this particular café, at this particularly late hour into the night, sit in the one spot where the tree leaves block the glow from the electric light and drink glass after glass of brandy. The Waiter seemingly finds everything about himself as superior to the deaf Old Man, including the fact that he still has the ability to hear. The character Dee, in Everyday Use (Kennedy pp102-109), also finds everything about herself superior to others. I find Dee’s case to be more infuriating the Waiters‘, because she treats her own mother and sister with the same disrespect.
This chaos is what brings the calming feeling because the adults can now just relax and not worry about being judged. It isn’t said that the adults are smiling or laughing, “..adults were spinning in excitable circles, …” (pg 143.) Although, this one line can establish that thought in the imagination on someone just because it brings up the subject of a chaotic, calming place. By using the word excitable, it makes it sound fun and thrilling, which is what the adults want and what Russell wants the reader to take from this scene. It’s meant to create an image of chaotic, thrilling fun, which is what brings on the relaxed, calm feeling.
An example of this is after Osbourne’s death, the men sit around eating chicken, smoking cigars and drinking champagne, apart from Raleigh. “And yet you can sit there and drink champagne and smoke cigars….” “To forget you little fool – to forget! D’you understand? To forget! You think there’s no limit to what a man can bear” This shows that the men have become hardened to lose friends and fellow Officers.
Manolin is Santiago’s closest friends and they care very much about each other. Santiago is one example of how in old age, loneliness, despair, and the sense of nothingness, may be combated through friendship and religion. In Ernest Hemingway’s short story “A Clean Well-Lighted Place”, despair is a common theme. Both the old man, and the old waiter struggle to deal with it, and the old man has tried many different methods to get rid of the feeling. He had a wife, but his wife died; and he tried to commit suicide.
He loves food and enjoys smoking his pipe, and the importance of his pipe is illustrated in the start of Chapter 2, were he nearly goes back from his journey because he has forgotten his pipe at home. Bilbo lived a calm and peaceful life, with a daily routine. As a fellow Baggins, he was well respected in the neighbourhood, because he never adventured or did anything unexpected. Bilbo’s ancestors the Tooks were completely opposite of the Bagginses, they were a clan noted for being adventurous and wild. However, when Gandalf a mysterious wizard and a bunch of dwarves lead by the royal prince Thorin Oakenshield approached him with a quest, something “Took-ish” awakens inside him and he dreamed of great mountains and exploring caves .
He plots to kill the old man even though he loves him just to get rid of the eye. For one week he would sneak into the old man’s room but he doesn’t kill him. The old man was sleeping and his eyes were closed. On the eighth night he woke the old man and seen the eye. He could hear the old man’s heart beating from being scared of what was about to happen to him.
In response to his fears, the lawyer writes this short story to try to understand how his life becomes so unbalanced, out of order and no longer “safe”. Which leads the reader to believe this is an autobiography about the lawyer, not a biography about Bartleby. The lawyer, himself, tells the reader in the beginning of the story that he is committed to having a well balanced, easy life. He does not want any turmoil in his life. He is very happy “in the cool tranquility of a snug retreat [to] do a snug business” (Melville 124).
The Verdict Essay A man mundanely plays a game of pinball on a dreary and cold Boston morning in his favorite pub. The audience can see the doubt and self-pity weighing down on his shoulders as he takes a sip of his beer and then a drag of his cigarette. He pauses to evaluate his life, a theme that continues throughout the film. His somber facial expression during the pause depicts a man having nothing to live for any longer. This opening scene accurately describes the life of Frank Galvin, an attorney with a drinking problem who is haunted by his past, and has resorted to ambulance chasing to make a living.