“It’s in my character to feel worse about folding a winner than betting a loser, it seems less of a sin against God or Nature or whatever.” This quote from the short story, Poker Night by John Updike, shows how the main character feels about his situation that he just started going through in the words of poker. Throughout John Updike's stories, he connects the small things to show the intense feelings and thoughts of characters, and to help the readers understand the story, and characters feelings better.
During the story, Updike uses the reminder of pills that the main character just received from his doctor to help him fight cancer. This shows how the smallest things remind him of his big situation and to help us realize how he is frightened of the future. During the short story, it says, “The little paper bags in the pocket rattled when I threw my jacket on the sofa and the sound scraped in my stomach, reminding me.” This quote shows that the faint sound of shaking pills brings to mind that he recently got cancer and the rest of his life is going to dramatically change. Without …show more content…
Once the main character arrives at his friends house for poker night, he walks into the unfinished den to start playing. His friend, Bob, has been working on the den for years, at the moment, the only source of light is a 100-watt bulb hanging from an extension cord with plasterboard and rolls of insulations haphazardly spread throughout the room. As he’s looking around the room, he thinks, “I’ll never see this room finished.” Even though he has been in this room a multitude of times, the circumstances are different now and everything is making him think of his cancer. Even the things that the character has seen many times before, and in the past would only seem natural, everything makes him think of his cancer and how is life will end
During the story, Updike uses the reminder of pills that the main character just received from his doctor to help him fight cancer. This shows how the smallest things remind him of his big situation and to help us realize how he is frightened of the future. During the short story, it says, “The little paper bags in the pocket rattled when I threw my jacket on the sofa and the sound scraped in my stomach, reminding me.” This quote shows that the faint sound of shaking pills brings to mind that he recently got cancer and the rest of his life is going to dramatically change. Without …show more content…
Once the main character arrives at his friends house for poker night, he walks into the unfinished den to start playing. His friend, Bob, has been working on the den for years, at the moment, the only source of light is a 100-watt bulb hanging from an extension cord with plasterboard and rolls of insulations haphazardly spread throughout the room. As he’s looking around the room, he thinks, “I’ll never see this room finished.” Even though he has been in this room a multitude of times, the circumstances are different now and everything is making him think of his cancer. Even the things that the character has seen many times before, and in the past would only seem natural, everything makes him think of his cancer and how is life will end