His Last Walk

Author Willa Cather in her short story, “Paul’s Case”, suggests that the main character Paul is unhappy with his lifestyle, and therefor he devotes himself towards living a life of luxury. She supports this by first showing Paul in his disciplinary meeting at school, then Paul goes to the theater, then he returns after the theater to the dullness and darkness of Cordelia Street. Cather’s purpose is to demonstrate that nothing good comes out of hoping for something that you don't have, and be…

Catcher in the Rye and Franny Glass from his short stories, Franny and Zooey are two incidents of when the adolescent illusion cracks. Both these characters suffer from the death of their beloved sibling. Holden is an abnormal, introverted teenager who isolates himself from the rest of the “phony” people in world. After running away from…

of Pencey Prep, tries to follow his heart to make everything perfect. Holden assumes that all children are innocent and perfect without noticing the truth. He tries to protect their innocence by following his heart to do good for all children, but always thinking about this shortly made him depressed and it leads him to be admitted into a mental institution. In “Dead Poets Society” Neil followshis heart to be an actor, and with the help of his english teacher at his all boys preparatory school,…

responsible for everything that happened to everybody we’d had anything to do with, it would be very awkward” .The attitude Birling has which is shown here is very poor and shows how selfish he is towards anyone but himself. He seems not care what his actions do to other people’s lives and what affect he has on them, which shows an attitude of a man that can do what he then wants to get rich. We are shown through the play how the opposing attitude of the Inspector attempts to teach the…

isolation, alienation, innocence, loss and identity. Holden tells his story from a rest home, where he spends his days after getting tuberculosis. A psychoanalyst encourages him to write about the events which led him to getting tuberculosis, and so “The Catcher in the Rye” is born. Holden spends three days just before Christmas roaming around in New York city, drinking and smoking a lot, and with no winter coat. Combined with his intense emotional distress, this is what caused him to get…

to face his own inner demons. However, these demons manifest themselves to Holden as a part of his personality. Throughout the novel, his persistent attachment to his dead brother Allie and his battle between maturity and childhood become Holden’s demons and cause injury to Holden; these demons overpower Holden even until the end. One demon that Holden commonly encounters throughout the novel is the fixation on his dead brother Allie. Although it happened many years prior, the death of his…

a fictional place where Gatsby’s mansion and Nick’s small house is at and Daisy and Tom lives in a mansion in East Egg which is also a fictional place. West Egg has a description called new money. Gatsby tries to be all flashy and impressive with his money, which is very irresponsible and unwise (“Old Money V. New Money”). According to this text, it elaborates that new money is a person who just got the new wealth and uses it carelessly like Jay Gatsby buying a expensive car to show off. On…

finds himself in an institution of some sort. Throughout the novel, his sanity and decision making process is questioned due to his actions and rebellious behavior. Jim, seems to have it together on the outside. His struggle with inner conflict is a result of his wealthy, snobby family. They not only have him to on a persona for the outside world, but also expect him to be a perfect child, despite the hardships of moving within his life. They both seek one strong relationship and are…

Holden tends to have a very childish view of life, he is depressed, confused, irresponsible, weird and violent. In addition, Holden fantasizes about killing people, he is baffled by sex, and he does not think out his…

Throughout the book Holden brings up things related to his implied and traumatizing encounters with sexual abuse and his brothers death; he also elaborates on how much he despises when people talk about him being kicked out of school. As the book goes on it becomes more apparent to the reader how much these things affect Holden throughout his daily life. Holden is a very vague and ill-defined character that has no path in life and proceeds to be the more invisible minority. Throughout the novel…