The Little Things in Life
The Beast in the Jungle by Henry James is about a man named John Marcher who believes that his life is shaped by a special mysterious thing. John calls it the ‘beast’. He spends his days waiting for the ‘beast’, in a house owned by May Bartram, while she lies there ill. Eventually, May figures out what the ‘beast’ is, but John fails to acknowledge it. John finally comes to terms too late when May had already passed. This story shows that it is importance to pay attention to the little things in life, unlike John who ends up missing them and never truly understood the ‘beast’. While the ‘beast’ may have been love, and John thought he knew what it felt like. He missed out of his opportunity to find his life meaning from being too self absorbed and closed-minded. May is the first person to figure out what the ‘beast’ actually is, the idea of love. While love is something that develops over time, it is a life-changing event. She tells John that the affair will change his life. While she had mentioned it before to John …show more content…
This happened when he is visiting her grave. He has this unsteady feeling and is trying to make peace with it. He sees another person and this person has the saddest expression on. He says to himself, “This face, one grey afternoon, when the leaves were thick in the alleys, looked into Marcher’s own, at the cemetery, with an expression like the cut of a blade.” (176The moment he sees the mans face is when he finally realizes that he is not the selfless man that he always thought he was. He sees the man morning his owned love one and John realized he was trying to do the same with May. The love that John had for May. It wasn’t just his love for May but the love that he failed to show her. He realized he was too focused on the happenings the ‘beast’ will provide that he did not see the ‘beast’ was right in front of
The Beast in the Jungle by Henry James is about a man named John Marcher who believes that his life is shaped by a special mysterious thing. John calls it the ‘beast’. He spends his days waiting for the ‘beast’, in a house owned by May Bartram, while she lies there ill. Eventually, May figures out what the ‘beast’ is, but John fails to acknowledge it. John finally comes to terms too late when May had already passed. This story shows that it is importance to pay attention to the little things in life, unlike John who ends up missing them and never truly understood the ‘beast’. While the ‘beast’ may have been love, and John thought he knew what it felt like. He missed out of his opportunity to find his life meaning from being too self absorbed and closed-minded. May is the first person to figure out what the ‘beast’ actually is, the idea of love. While love is something that develops over time, it is a life-changing event. She tells John that the affair will change his life. While she had mentioned it before to John …show more content…
This happened when he is visiting her grave. He has this unsteady feeling and is trying to make peace with it. He sees another person and this person has the saddest expression on. He says to himself, “This face, one grey afternoon, when the leaves were thick in the alleys, looked into Marcher’s own, at the cemetery, with an expression like the cut of a blade.” (176The moment he sees the mans face is when he finally realizes that he is not the selfless man that he always thought he was. He sees the man morning his owned love one and John realized he was trying to do the same with May. The love that John had for May. It wasn’t just his love for May but the love that he failed to show her. He realized he was too focused on the happenings the ‘beast’ will provide that he did not see the ‘beast’ was right in front of