1) Qualities Dr. Heidegger’s four guests each pursue are described by the author Nathaniel Hawthorne. Mr. Medbourne was very active in strength both mentally and physically. Having been a great merchant, he suddenly lost his all by pondering on doubtful things, becoming a slight bit better than a beggar. Colonel Killigrew withered his health and happiness (through his best years) within sinful pleasures which created pains, such as diseases of the joints, along with many other torments of the body and soul. Mr. Gascoigne had been a ruined politician, including a man of evil fame until time had hid the knowledge of present time. He began to become obscure or ambiguous rather than having a bad reputation. Lastly, qualities of Widow Wycherly start as she was quite a beauty in her day, she was in deep
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Heidegger represents when he sat in his throne like chair watching the group dancing and frolicking portrayed the abstract idea that the doctor had high of power watching everyone and everything he ruled come together.
13) When the doctor refuses to dance with the younger guests, it suggests that he is older in age and appearance which limits his actions and abilities. In the short story it proclaims, ““Pray excuse me,” answered the doctor, quietly. “I am old and rheumatic, and my dancing days were over long ago.””
14) The mirror shows the four guests as old rather than young because the mirror displays the perception of how these guests are truly elderly, as the impression of the water gave the illusion of looking young again. The mirror shows the elderly the truth of their appearance of who they truly are without the water.
15) The moral point Hawthorne might be creating by the overturning of the table and the shattering of the vase is to symbolize the realization that receiving what you want may hurt others, meaning, since the four guests turned young they got what they had wanted and became reckless due to their appearance and
Heidegger represents when he sat in his throne like chair watching the group dancing and frolicking portrayed the abstract idea that the doctor had high of power watching everyone and everything he ruled come together.
13) When the doctor refuses to dance with the younger guests, it suggests that he is older in age and appearance which limits his actions and abilities. In the short story it proclaims, ““Pray excuse me,” answered the doctor, quietly. “I am old and rheumatic, and my dancing days were over long ago.””
14) The mirror shows the four guests as old rather than young because the mirror displays the perception of how these guests are truly elderly, as the impression of the water gave the illusion of looking young again. The mirror shows the elderly the truth of their appearance of who they truly are without the water.
15) The moral point Hawthorne might be creating by the overturning of the table and the shattering of the vase is to symbolize the realization that receiving what you want may hurt others, meaning, since the four guests turned young they got what they had wanted and became reckless due to their appearance and