Appearance Vs. Reality In The Film The Fitts Family

After several days spent meticulously filtering and interpreting the poorly translated web of psychological theories, Katharine Cook Briggs finally decides to unwind on her recliner. She calls her daughter, Isabel, eager to hear about the newest rendition of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, test form D, but she is unavailable (“A Guide to…”). She turns on the television, interested to hear the latest news updates on the deteriorating geopolitics of the late 1950s. Instead, she receives an unappreciated surprise in the form of the perky, gleeful face of stereotypical housewife June Cleaver on Leave it to Beaver as she thoughtlessly cleans, cooks, and cares for the family, all the while indoctrinating the audience on domestic female roles that Katharine finds both diminutive and regressive. June Cleaver may not have been the news Katharine was anticipating, but it was equally informative. She very well could have been a June-type mother, or worse, her daughter could have been. This comedic television trope of the average housewife reinvigorates Katharine, a constant reminder of her good fortune growing up in an intellectually supportive environment. She turns off the television, opens Psychologische Typen von C.G. Jung, and continues to comb through the pages, endlessly searching for the key to unlock the complexities of personality (“Myers’ and…).

As Henry struggled to find himself he connected more with Sheldon who played Jazz music in the streets. This gave the reader a sense of comfort that after losing Keiko and his father he was able to connect with someone who respected him and supported who Henry was. Mrs. Beatty who was the cafeteria cook asked Henry to help her in the internment camps to serve the people living there. This scenario brought hope to the reader that Mrs. Beatty understood and empathized with what Henry was feeling when Keiko was forced to leave. Each time Henry connected with Keiko at the internment camp it elicited happiness that Henry did not allow the difference in him and Keiko to impact his feelings. It was disappointing to read Keiko never returned from the internment camp. Henry’s decision to move on with Ethyl was shocking and somewhat disappointing. After being married and sharing a son, Ethyl passed away which was another gloomy experience in the book. It was a surprise when Henry chose to look for Keiko’s items that she left behind. Henry’s reflection on his relationship with his son, Marty and the desire to improve it was heartwarming as was the relationship Henry developed with Samantha, Marty’s fiancé. As the story came to an end and Henry was face to face again with Keiko it brought delight to the reader that after all these years and all the heart wrenching experience they were able to reconnect like they had never been apart.

By using repetition, Goodman hammers in the point that Phil “worked himself to death,” dying under piteous conditions. However, one loses that sense of pity when Goodman elaborates on the cold, hard facts of Phil’s death. He was a “perfect type A, a classic workaholic”; he was “fifty-one years old and a vice president”, “one of three who might conceivably … have moved to the top spot”; he had “no extracurricular interests”; he was “20 or 25 pounds” overweight; he had “maybe sixty” people working for him. Each and every figure is dished out sarcastically, mocking Phil for letting facts and figures

Frank morphs his personality into whatever someone wants him to be. To others he has the perfect family; however, he has a secret. When he is with Kenny he is rude to Tub. But when he is with Tub he seems to be himself. His affair with the babysitter is killing this supposed family man. He doesn't want to leave his wife simply because she's been good to him. The obvious reason of love isn't even mentioned in relation to his wife. When Frank tells Tub about true love it's as if he is a fifteen-year-old girl himself. The way he describes it one could easily imagine the same conversation happening in the girls' bathroom of a high school after a first kiss. "`Tub, have you ever been really in love?' `Well-' `I mean really in love.' He squeezed Tub's wrist. `With your whole being.' `I don't know. When you put it like that, I don't know.' `You haven't then. Nothing against you, but you'd know it if you had.' Frank let go of Tub's arm. `This isn't just some bit of fluff I'm talking about'" (Wolff 88). Frank is extremely immature. His views on life and love make it evident that he would make a connection with a fifteen-year-old. He believes that a friend should be

The life of a man in the 1950s consisted of work and travel to work and home. In the film, Wheeler’s neighbors show us the damage that men had to face when having to work all day. It hinders the relationship that men had with their wife and children. Frank and April’s neighbor, Shep, shows us this when he tries to talk with his children. He asks them what they are doing and his kids completely ignore him. He’s not there for most of the day and he does not have the time to bond with his family. Not only is their relationship with their kids damaged but their relationships with their wives. Frank notices that his life no longer has the adrenaline that it once used to. Frank says to April, “I was full of blood, scared, but full of life”. In this scene, Frank explains to April what he felt while he was out at war. He felt the thrill and adrenaline of something real. He looks for things that would

Lennie and George end up employed on a ranch and begin to realize that every man is for himself and that nobody is truly happy. They come to know a character referenced throughout the entire book as “Curley’s wife”. Being the sole female on the ranch, she is often referred to in derogatory terms because of her flirtatious personality (Steinbeck 28). She approaches the other men and “stirs up trouble” (77) which in the end leads to Lennie’s death. Being the wife of an arrogant and egocentric man, Curley’s wife tries to cure her loneliness by finding solace in other men. Knowing her future is bleak, Curley’s wife risks the dangers of the other men’s lives by trying to find someone like her. She lures Lennie into her world, telling him about how lonely she is and the future she could’ve had as an actress (86). Her solitary life drives her to put Lennie in danger and ultimately end her and his life. Curley’s wife and another one of the ranch hands talk about how “maybe people are just afraid of each other” (35). The fear of missing out (FOMO) drives people to make irrational decisions when feeling lonely which happened to both Daisy and Curley’s wife..

Finishing, the messages of the stories, Charlie and Leonard, alike, both faced extreme difficulties in everyday tasks, but that doesn't mean that their lives didn't have meaning. They both had a short time without their diseases. The theme they and all of us learned that good things never last forever. Until we accept those things we cannot live our lives, even if that means living life where we can't walk or reading a book without remembering the last page you read. Charlie and Leonard, alike, both wanted to be, in some sense, normal. Another theme we can take from the overall theme of the book being learning and accepting

F. Scott Fitzgerald presents multiple themes and characters that have an overlaying façade that they portray throughout the novel. Fitzgerald’s main representation of illusion is with James Gatz or Jay Gatsby as he is known in the time covered in the novel. Gatsby can also be considered to be the embodiment of illusion within the novel.

In the “Gilded Six-Bits,” the husband expressed to his wife that he was envious of the “wealthy” new comer in the town. He longed to have the popularity, money, and even his protruding belly. He was enthralled by any detail related to this man’s life. “Everyday Use” has a character, Maggie, which is jealous of her sister because she is beautiful and has the world basically handed to her because of her beauty. Often people will look into others’ lives not knowing the other person’s situation, only knowing what they see and they think that the person has the perfect life. Often that is not the case and sometimes the person’s life whom you are longing for may be secretly longing for your life because theirs isn’t as great as it seems to the people looking in.

Along with the argument of love, towards the end of the book, Morrie was on the borderline of death. He was making life easy for him and enjoying every moment of his last few weeks and months. Morrie thought of everything in a positive way and even turned every negative thought to a positive thought when Mitch questioned him. Morrie set goals for himself like talking on as many talk shows as possible to let people know his life story. Speaking of goals, I believe an important aphorism in this book is about life goals and dreams. In the novel, Morrie states,”If you really want it, then you will make your dream happen”(47). From this quote, I believe this is important because if you don’t set goals for yourself then everything could just go wrong. This relates to me because I try to set goals for my business. My dad always says, if you fail to plan, then you plan to fail. I don't want to fail. Without goals, I would continue on with bad habits and procrastination with most things. Without setting goals would keep me unorganized and messy. This quote proves I need to set goals because then I might start depending on

Analysis: This allusion emphasizes the significant theme of the story as a whole, “it is common for young adults to have bits of romanticism and false hope in their goals or dreams.” John Grady wanted to create a new life for himself, but

His transformation is remarkable with failures at the start and him finding happiness at the end. Later on, after a few unsuccessful attempts to meet someone, he finds a girl he loves and winds up marrying her. At the end, after he marries a girl he finds, he has never been happier. His work productivity has also increased, with him no longer afraid to talk to girls. The main takeaway from this film is that stepping out of your comfort zone is required in order to be more productive and

The combination of the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl is one of the most depressing and loneliest times in History. In the book Of Mice and Men two characters, George and Lennie are workers traveling along looking for work. The story takes place on a new farm where they meet new characters going more in depth on what life is like during these times. In Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck Develops the concept of loneliness through Curley’s wife and her restrictions, Crooks race, and Candy’s inability to work to demonstrate how loneliness has the ability to make someone treat others negatively. Curly’s wife although very different from the guys who worked on the farm, she is just as much the same.

“According to Aristotle, friendships based on utility and pleasure are inferior types of friendship.” (285). This reflects on his thinking that we must have true friends that gain pleasure from doing virtuous things for and with one another. This film goes to show how these ideas from Aristotle, Plato, and Groundhog Day, help to bring to life that happiness can only be accomplished in oneself when they forget about themselves. Groundhog Day uses the eternal return to help Phil Conner’s to relive his day, so that he can hopefully get a change of heart for his moral character and how he treats others around him. From the beginning of this film, we see that Phil doesn’t realize how small his own life and his outlooks are. Due to his lack of understanding on his own life, he is put in the position of living the day over again many times until he knows how much he can grow and make his life expand. The audience also sees his egoistic hedonism when he takes for granted that he is the only one that is aware of the day repeating. Of course, by knowing that he is only focused on wanting what’s pleasurable for him, he tries to do as many pleasurable experiences within the ever-present Groundhog Day. However, Phil notices that this repetition of events he lives, is not all fun and games after a while. He soon grows bored and tired with the life of pleasure he has, and tries to end his life because of

From the immediate and positive consequences of his initial acts of self-empowerment, he begins a personal crusade to regain control and enjoy himself. Unfortunately, he is over-compensating with no thought for the risks. This leads us directly to the perverted, borderline pedophilic, overt sexual flirting with his daughter’s 16 year old best friend Angela, that seems to take place in a series of extremely bad, twisted 1970’s porno films. Allow me to explain why Lester constantly fantasises about Angela as some kind of porn goddess quite literally swimming in rose petals, slow motion film, steamy lighting, and cheesy, cheesy pick up lines that should never see the light of