1) In the story “Wakefield” by Hawthorne is based on this character name Wakefield “The man under pretence of going a journey took lodgings in the next street to his own house, and there, unheard of by his wife or friends, and without the shadow of self-banishment, dwelt upwards of twenty years”(1). Wakefield does indeed sound like an oddly uninteresting character however Hawthorne makes it clear that Wakefield is a painfully normal guy. Because Hawthorne shows that Wakefield is a normal guy without a social life and nobody seems to care about him considering that he’s right across the street from his own wife, thinking that he’s dead causes him to feel pain. Hawthorne includes details like “Can it be, that nobody caught sight of him”(4) which
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One part where Wakefield shows his smile is when he is saying bye to his wife and in her head, she sees Wakefield “smiling on her and gone in a moment...but long afterwards, when she has been more years a widow than a wife, that smile recurs”(2). This shows that the smile has some sort of correlation with the wife being a widow or that Wakefield might die. This is because in further lines it mentions “She dreams of him in Heaven, still his blessed spirit wears a quiet and crafty smile”(2). This shows that the smile has to do more with the death of Wakefield instead of being a widow. It also could mean that the smile is like a memory of the wife in order to remember him. Wakefield’s smile is very significant to the story because it can foreshadow what might actually happen to wakefield and it’s also significant to the story because it has to relate to the reason why he left his house and stays away from his family and home. At the end of the story Wakefield’s craft smile comes back when he comes back to his house and sees his wife. This is because the smile represents his death but all along it is a “Little joke, that he has ever since been playing off at his wife’s expense”(6). In other words, his smile comes back because he tricks his wife about his death and Wakefield’s death is shown through the smile he makes. The effect of this is that he doesn’t literally die but he dies in the inside and then steps into his
One part where Wakefield shows his smile is when he is saying bye to his wife and in her head, she sees Wakefield “smiling on her and gone in a moment...but long afterwards, when she has been more years a widow than a wife, that smile recurs”(2). This shows that the smile has some sort of correlation with the wife being a widow or that Wakefield might die. This is because in further lines it mentions “She dreams of him in Heaven, still his blessed spirit wears a quiet and crafty smile”(2). This shows that the smile has to do more with the death of Wakefield instead of being a widow. It also could mean that the smile is like a memory of the wife in order to remember him. Wakefield’s smile is very significant to the story because it can foreshadow what might actually happen to wakefield and it’s also significant to the story because it has to relate to the reason why he left his house and stays away from his family and home. At the end of the story Wakefield’s craft smile comes back when he comes back to his house and sees his wife. This is because the smile represents his death but all along it is a “Little joke, that he has ever since been playing off at his wife’s expense”(6). In other words, his smile comes back because he tricks his wife about his death and Wakefield’s death is shown through the smile he makes. The effect of this is that he doesn’t literally die but he dies in the inside and then steps into his