Analysis Of The First Day By Edward P Jones

Today’s haughty society is full of pride, vain, arrogance and condescension. Weather it be an individual’s beliefs or personalities, it is everywhere and always there. No one cares if they are adverse in the life of another so long as they are at the top of something, therefore scaring identities, damaging relationships and blocking access and opportunity for individuals.

Whether it be immediate, or years later, the encounter between society and vain will forever tarnish and hinder an individual’s identity, image and relationships as depicted in The First Day by Edward P. Jones.

Pride, it is a blessing and a curse, allowing yourself to be proud of yourself is an incredible however, it is taken advantage so often we turn into condescending figures who haunt our thoughts and corrode the image we project onto one another. Hugh Garner displays this ever so boldly through the main characters in his short story The Father. …show more content…
The arrogance is overwhelmingly melodramatic across humanity that we do not know when we have crossed the line, for if we receive what we want, we are oblivious to having crossed the line however, everything that goes up must come down including our arrogance;this is beautifully depicted through the short story The Possibility of Evil by Shirley