Choices and Possibilities in American Literature Writings
The Oxford Dictionary defines choice as “A range of possibilities from which one or more may be chosen” (Oxford). In life, people are forced to make simple or life changing decisions every day. The authors of American Literature stories wrote about just this. From stories of a high class citizen to a man hopping from job to job, the authors told stories of choices that their characters were faced with on their journeys. A prominent and recurring theme in the writings of American Literature authors is portrayed through choices and possibilities.
The Minister’s Black Veil, written by Nathaniel Hawthorne, displays a common theme of choices and possibilities. In this short story, the minister, …show more content…
Written by Willa Cather, an author who “...understood and relished engaging in the artistic struggle between the new and the traditional, the fresh and the timeless, the fleeting and the permanent…”(Flannigan) forced readers to make a choice. The story is about the choices that were made and the impact it had on the characters. Aunt Georgiana had a love for music, but when she fell in love with a man that lived on the frontier of Nebraska, she was forced to choose between leading a life in the city with music and culture, or leaving to marry and create a new life with a small town farmer. She chose to leave her life and start a new one, knowing that the life she would now possess would lack of music. This was a choice that she made not knowing the impact that it would have on herself later in life. Aunt Georgiana gained an opportunity to share her love of music with her nephew, Clark, when she fostered him through his boyhood. For this reason, Clark moved to a city abundant with music to satisfy his soul’s desire, abandoning his precedented life of farming. Aunt Georgiana came to the city in which her nephew lived, and he revived the love of music in her that had withered away in the Nebraskan air. In the end of the story, Aunt Georgiana is faced with the ultimate decision of staying in a city vibrant with culture or going back to the little Nebraska frontier lacking in the element she most loved (Cather). Lives were altered due to several choices made in A Wagner
The Oxford Dictionary defines choice as “A range of possibilities from which one or more may be chosen” (Oxford). In life, people are forced to make simple or life changing decisions every day. The authors of American Literature stories wrote about just this. From stories of a high class citizen to a man hopping from job to job, the authors told stories of choices that their characters were faced with on their journeys. A prominent and recurring theme in the writings of American Literature authors is portrayed through choices and possibilities.
The Minister’s Black Veil, written by Nathaniel Hawthorne, displays a common theme of choices and possibilities. In this short story, the minister, …show more content…
Written by Willa Cather, an author who “...understood and relished engaging in the artistic struggle between the new and the traditional, the fresh and the timeless, the fleeting and the permanent…”(Flannigan) forced readers to make a choice. The story is about the choices that were made and the impact it had on the characters. Aunt Georgiana had a love for music, but when she fell in love with a man that lived on the frontier of Nebraska, she was forced to choose between leading a life in the city with music and culture, or leaving to marry and create a new life with a small town farmer. She chose to leave her life and start a new one, knowing that the life she would now possess would lack of music. This was a choice that she made not knowing the impact that it would have on herself later in life. Aunt Georgiana gained an opportunity to share her love of music with her nephew, Clark, when she fostered him through his boyhood. For this reason, Clark moved to a city abundant with music to satisfy his soul’s desire, abandoning his precedented life of farming. Aunt Georgiana came to the city in which her nephew lived, and he revived the love of music in her that had withered away in the Nebraskan air. In the end of the story, Aunt Georgiana is faced with the ultimate decision of staying in a city vibrant with culture or going back to the little Nebraska frontier lacking in the element she most loved (Cather). Lives were altered due to several choices made in A Wagner