The Overcoat

a marriage to a not so pretty but good intentioned wife. He is described as weak and skinny, but kind and wise. “Billy was preposterous—six feet and three inches tall, with a chest and shoulders like a box of kitchen matches. He had no helmet, no overcoat, no weapon, and no boots. On his feet were cheap, low-cut civilian shoes which he had bought for his father's funeral. Billy had lost a heel, which made him bob up-and-down-up-and-down. The involuntary dancing, up-and-down, up-and-down, made…

realizing that there was nothing to run away from, and reinventing himself was never the answer. This realization hits him when he is in Pemberton Road for the final time, reading the book his father had given to him on his fourteenth birthday, “The Overcoat” by Nikolai Gogol. As he is beginning to read the book, he sees the note his father had left him saying, “The man who gave you his name, from the man who gave you your name” (Lahiri, 288). Upon reading this quote his father had left him, he…

with thousands of other educated urban upper middle-class Americans. (One wonders about the extent to which Moushumi is to them simply an ethnic accessory to their ready-made yuppie outfits, a Pashmina shawl thrown over their designer name-brand overcoats). There must be more to them than that, and yet this is how they seem to Gogol” (Caesar 115). Caesar’s observation is very interesting to assume some Americans assimilate with other cultures or ethnic groups in order to justify one’s claim to…

and his heroic deeds so if we knew how he lived, we can understand him and his works. One of the people who tried to humanize Jose Rizal and to make the generation understand is Ambeth Ocampo. Ambeth Ocampo has written a book “Rizal without the Overcoat” that he claims to be a stripped down version of who Jose Rizal is. He compared Rizal to other ‘heroes’, he showed who Rizal is on a daily basis and he defended that Rizal, the Filipino hero, is just a normal person just like the rest of us.…

name a thousand times he will remain the same inside and it appears that as long as he tires to be someone else that himself, Gogol will never be happy because Gogol is his fate. At the beginning for he book, there is a quote from Nikolaï Gogol, the overcoat saying “ The reader should realise himself that it could not have happened otherwise, and that to give him any other name was quite out of the question ‘’. I believe that he was born as Gogol, he will always be…

Not surprisingly, Solzhenitsyn depicts the characters in One Day as individuals who, in the midst of external unfreedom, maintain their individuality. "To look at them, the gang was all the same-the same black overcoats and numbers-but underneath they were all different" (One Day 16). The Prisoners are externally stripped of individuality and worth, as they are clothed in black coats, pants, and hats with painted numbers for identification. Each has a different…

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…

The Dubliners Dilemma, a one-man-show devised and performed by Declan Gorman. James Joyce’s “Dubliners” was a long time in finding a publisher. An early potential publisher had been one Grant Richards. He was nervous about publishing because he feared it would open him and his firm, given the scandalous content of some of the stories, to prosecution by the powers that be. However about eight years after initially rejecting it, Grant Richards did agree to publish it in 1914. Adaptations of…

Life during the medieval period was either great or very difficult. This depended on a person's family history and their classification. Ruling, clergy, middle, and peasant were the four main types of classifications during the medieval times. People in the ruling and the clergy class usually had the best of everything, so their lives were great. Life was very difficult for the middle- class people and the peasants. Most of them did not have much at all. Many peasants would go days without…

The rain had been falling down and the plump drops of water dripped onto the pavement bursting open and i just wanted to burst with anger. Just like a raindrop. So put on dress to be elegant like a raindrop when i broke free. I put on boots and a overcoat grabbed an umbrella and left. At first it felt okay to be away but then i started to feel strange. No food only these clothes. I couldn't just become one with the…