Blood. Sweat. Tears. Those who you love forgo everything they have for you so you may live the life that they never had the opportunity to live. How would you feel if the life your loved ones created for you was a life that you never wanted? This inner turmoil is explored in Alden Nowlan’s Warren Pryor. Warren Pryor ultimately is caught choosing between his own happiness or the happiness of the people he loves, a choice which he makes unselfishly and forever regrets. The major misconception that caused Warren Pryor’s dilemma is that they did not understand what he desired in the first place. All that his parents saw in their point of view was that their son was going to have to “[brutally] toil” in the “stony fields” like they once did.
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This is illustrated in the phrase “every pencil meant a sacrifice.” This quote is describing how Warren’s parents had to make a “sacrifice” just so that their son could have a pencil to write with at school.
Once Warren Pryor graduates from the school, his parents “blush with pride,” showing how elated they are that their was now “saved” from their “thistle-strewn farm.” They “marveled at his milk-white shirt,” exemplifying how they now feel completed that their goal has been met. As far as Warren’s parents are concerned, they have now secured a future for his son that he can look forward to.
Little do they know that instead giving their son a blessing, they have in reality given him a curse. One can infer that Warren Prayer is feeling his “throttled rage” because he wanted to farmer his whole life instead of a banker like his parents wanted him to be. This is alluded to in the juxtaposition, “axe hewn hands upon the paper bills.” His “axe-hewn hands” contrast sharply with the “paper bills” to symbolise how unfit he as a person is to the job is he is now doing. Moreover, Nowlan further stresses this point, saying that Warren’s hands “[ached] with empty strength,” once again illustrating how he is not a good match for his
This is illustrated in the phrase “every pencil meant a sacrifice.” This quote is describing how Warren’s parents had to make a “sacrifice” just so that their son could have a pencil to write with at school.
Once Warren Pryor graduates from the school, his parents “blush with pride,” showing how elated they are that their was now “saved” from their “thistle-strewn farm.” They “marveled at his milk-white shirt,” exemplifying how they now feel completed that their goal has been met. As far as Warren’s parents are concerned, they have now secured a future for his son that he can look forward to.
Little do they know that instead giving their son a blessing, they have in reality given him a curse. One can infer that Warren Prayer is feeling his “throttled rage” because he wanted to farmer his whole life instead of a banker like his parents wanted him to be. This is alluded to in the juxtaposition, “axe hewn hands upon the paper bills.” His “axe-hewn hands” contrast sharply with the “paper bills” to symbolise how unfit he as a person is to the job is he is now doing. Moreover, Nowlan further stresses this point, saying that Warren’s hands “[ached] with empty strength,” once again illustrating how he is not a good match for his