Vanity can be found in various forms, it can be negative or positive depending on the level of vanity. Vanity is rarely the word used to present the obsession. The word overconfident is mainly the word, which people know and use. Being vain has a different effect on each individual, and being a little vain does not hurt. But the issue is when it is too much, which offends some people and makes you look cocky. In this short story Harry Albert and David Lowie get to know each other on a plane, but the vanity can be found throughout the whole story.
Harry Albert, who finds himself sitting beside the holocaust survivor is a round character,“Harry didn’t think it would be polite to ask 32-A (or, no: a person shouldn’t think of a Holocaust survivor …show more content…
He is a flat character, because we don’t get to know any of his thoughts, but that doesn’t make him a minor character. David Lowie is a static character, since he has the same unbothered attitude from the start to the end, “ gave the man a nod, but 32-A did not nod in return.”( page 1, line 8) “A week later, back in Minneapolis, he received a reply, three words. Don’t kid yourself.” (page 4, line 176). Both quotes show the same attitude, and even though the readers think he has created a bond with Harry Albert after the flight, he is still the same. The author shows and tells when it comes to David Lowis, “32-A was a short man, of a certain age, stooped but solid, with hair dyed inky black.”(page 1, line 4). “I was a Schindler Jew,” 32-A said.”(page 1,line 30). The first quote tells since it is information the author has given us, and the second one is showing since we get to know it from the …show more content…
Antagonist do not always have to be characters, it can be the environment, illness or society. In this story his obsession with himself is making him delusional, “Let them envy him. Let them envy his good looks, his luck.”(page 4,line 168). He is actually convinced that people look into his room and envy his life and his looks, which makes him some kind of delusional. David Lowie can be seen as the antagonist if it is not thought about, but the antagonist in this story is the title vanity, since it is the problem Harry Albert is struggling with. The title itself appears later in the story, “ Are you vain, like him?”(page 3, line 150). We get to know that the protagonist is good looking from the start, “Harry Albert, who, by contrast, dressed rather elegantly and could still turn heads for his handsomeness, gave the man a nod.”(page 1,line 7). The way he is described by the author gives us an imagination of how good his self esteem is, from the
Harry Albert, who finds himself sitting beside the holocaust survivor is a round character,“Harry didn’t think it would be polite to ask 32-A (or, no: a person shouldn’t think of a Holocaust survivor …show more content…
He is a flat character, because we don’t get to know any of his thoughts, but that doesn’t make him a minor character. David Lowie is a static character, since he has the same unbothered attitude from the start to the end, “ gave the man a nod, but 32-A did not nod in return.”( page 1, line 8) “A week later, back in Minneapolis, he received a reply, three words. Don’t kid yourself.” (page 4, line 176). Both quotes show the same attitude, and even though the readers think he has created a bond with Harry Albert after the flight, he is still the same. The author shows and tells when it comes to David Lowis, “32-A was a short man, of a certain age, stooped but solid, with hair dyed inky black.”(page 1, line 4). “I was a Schindler Jew,” 32-A said.”(page 1,line 30). The first quote tells since it is information the author has given us, and the second one is showing since we get to know it from the …show more content…
Antagonist do not always have to be characters, it can be the environment, illness or society. In this story his obsession with himself is making him delusional, “Let them envy him. Let them envy his good looks, his luck.”(page 4,line 168). He is actually convinced that people look into his room and envy his life and his looks, which makes him some kind of delusional. David Lowie can be seen as the antagonist if it is not thought about, but the antagonist in this story is the title vanity, since it is the problem Harry Albert is struggling with. The title itself appears later in the story, “ Are you vain, like him?”(page 3, line 150). We get to know that the protagonist is good looking from the start, “Harry Albert, who, by contrast, dressed rather elegantly and could still turn heads for his handsomeness, gave the man a nod.”(page 1,line 7). The way he is described by the author gives us an imagination of how good his self esteem is, from the