Babylon Revisited

Conflict In the novel “Something Wicked This Way Comes,” Charles Holloway faces both internal and external conflict. Charles has to deal with committing the sin of lust, as shown through “Holloway’s eyes leaped to the poster… THE MOST BEAUTIFUL WOMAN IN THE WORLD!” (Bradbury 25), “He wanted to go away from here.

The character of Charlie (being the protagonist) is who the readers are directly linked too, as we are taken on a journey with him through his actions, feeling, ideas and perspectives. His journey also includes his maturation/ coming of age as he does not escape from his issues and problems however he faces them head on. “I have no idea where we’re going. The further we move, the keener my apprehension grows. Still, there is something emboldening about being awake when the rest of the world is sleeping. Like I know something they don’t.” The passage has shifted from the description of late-night Corrigan to the thoughts/feeling of Charlie. He has been called to a mysterious place by a peculiar figure called Jasper Jones. As they travel further and further away from Corrigan the more Charlie’s worry and doubt comes to him about where they are travelling, what they might be doing and why did Japer choose him over everyone else? The readers are unaware of why Charlie is following Jasper blindly and so is Charlie. This is a stage in the narrative where Charlie’s progression as a character starts. The mood is created here from the events that are happening and from the readers attachment to the protagonist. The thoughts of the characters are reflected as the feeling from the readers. In some ways we already understand what might happen based on different reading from

Charlie’s friends even take advantage of how nice he is. They always make him the root of their jokes. When Charlie asks a barber shop owner to move his illegally parked car, the owner laughs at him and just throws him the keys to the car and tells him to move it himself. The whole town takes advantage of Charlie though, not only his friends. In the supermarket a woman asks to cut in front of him inline and then ends up having a cart full of groceries. This is Charlies breaking point. He starts tensing up, you can tell something is happening. All of a sudden he starts talking in a different voice, and finds vagaclean in the woman’s cart that cut in front of him. So to take his anger out on her he gets on the store microphone and announces she has vagaclean in her cart. We learn this new personalities name when he is drowning a young girl in the water fountain who disobeyed him earlier. When the girl says she is going to tell her father on him, he announces that he is Hank. After this change in personality he starts going

The more obvious ways he had changed was his intelligence, and the memories that slowly came flooding back to him after the surgery. He had went from an IQ of 70, to an IQ of 185 and counting. It had a tremendous impact on Charlie, for he was like a sponge, absorbing as much knowledge as possible, refusing to stop. He had exceeded the expectations, surpassing the IQ of the doctors that worked at Beekman University, and even the ones that constructed the experiment that changed Charlie’s life. He had managed to learn French, German, Italian, Spanish, Swedish, Russian, Portuguese, Chinese, Hindi, and Japanese in an extremely short period of time. Before the surgery, Charlie wanted to partake in conversations with the college students about politics,

Charlie begins to hang out with Sam and Patrick and is getting in the routine of going to football games and then going out afterwards to celebrate. Afterwhile he catches feelings for Sam and the way he expresses them further deepens our understanding of his depression. Instead of going with the flow and not telling her about the dreams he had about her, he professes his love for her in the form of sharing his dreams and telling her just how he feels. Perhaps, this isn’t all his fault because when Sam tells him that she’s too old for him, he becomes obsessed with his love for her and can’t stop thinking about how perfect she is in his eyes. The only thing this confession has done for him is make his feelings grow and send him in a downward spiral of

‘A deeper understanding of relationships and identity emerges from pursuing the connections between Pride and Prejudice and Letters to Alice on First Reading Jane Austen.’

Charlie shows us the intertwining of time when thinking of his future plans with Honoria, then thinking of the plans he had made with his late wife and never completed in the past. He then comes to the present and realizes that it is most important (Mizner 316).

Next, Foster brilliantly introduces the character of Cecil Vyse, a “medieval'; and high standing Englishman who, while is an acceptable suitor, really only sees Lucy as another pretty possession by his side. Cecil’s most important function ironically enough, is to serve as a “mirror'; for Lucy. For by seeing his snobbish and downright crude mannerisms, Lucy receives a likely image of what she herself could become if she were to marry Cecil for convention and not for passion. Becoming disgusted with Cecil’s behavior, she breaks off her engagement with him, yet still cannot distinguish whether she is doing it because of his crude and snobbish nature or because of her love for George, which she has still yet to admit.

13-14) For her, Charlie was the embodiment of that villain. Though the argument that resulted in the incident was the fault of both parties, Marion is unwilling or unable to consider Helen an equal party to Charlie's excesses. Marion's hatred of Charlie makes it impossible for her to impartially judge his attempts to rebuild his life. When she questions, "How long are you going to stay sober, Charlie?" (p. 12) at dinner the first evening of his return, her behavior is colored by her ill feelings toward her brother-in-law, but her concern for his willingness to stay sober is valid and understandable given Charlie's past behavior and her genuine concern for Honoria's best interests. His continued separation from Honoria is wrenching, but Marion's resistance to relinquishing custody, though partially fuelled by her hatred of Charlie, is also motivated by her fondness for her niece.

They went out to eat at this fancy resturant, Charlie was wondering why the lieutenant wanted to go to a fancy resturant and spend all his money. The lieutenant taught him that money does 't keep you happy. Stating that he was 't happy hisself. So why not enjoy that weekend of fun! Next they went to his brother house. To me he wanted Charlie to go to his brother house with him to

“The door of the world was open again. He made plans, vistas, futures for Honoria and himself” (2211). But soon the happy thoughts are clouded by the memories of his late wife, Helen. His memories would always be around to haunt him, and this became extremely clear when Charlie received a letter from an old friend of his. Lorraine Quarrles, who he ran into when he was with Honoria, was one of the people he spent most of his time with when drunk. During his encounter with her and another friend, Duncan Schaeffer, they were taken aback by his sobriety and tried to offer him a drink on multiple occasions. His refusal and later lack of contact cause the two to seek out Charlie for themselves, and from here on, everything goes downhill. The pair show up to the Peters’ just when Charlie, Marion, and Lincoln are finalizing the plans regarding Honoria’s custody. Charlie is outraged by their sudden appearance, but so is Marion. She changes her mind about giving away her custodial rights; the drunk pair just gave her more proof that Charlie would never change. He vows to come back some day stating “they couldn’t make him pay forever” (2215). All he wants is his child, and his past has kept him from

So Charlie takes Raymond back to LA with him, on the way from Ohio to LA Charlie somehow changes his attitude towards his brother Raymond and in the end he wants to take care of him. At the end Charlie realizes that he can't care for Raymond because of his Autism, but he still cares deeply for Raymond and vows to visit often.

Throughout the novel Charlie’s personality and intelligence level changes a lot. In the beginning Charlie is happy, has friends, he’s retarded, and can’t remember a lot of things. “I fergot his last name because I dont remebir so good.” (Keyes 2),

Charlie and his wife lived in Paris during the twenties, and just as any other night they were out drinking and having fun. They get into a fight witch results in his wife, Helen, kissing another man. Charlie storms home, and an hour later when Helen has stumbled herself home, Charlie locks her out of their apartment and she dies soon after. Charlie has a breakdown and is institutionalized right before he looses all his money in the stock market crash of 1929. As the story opens three years later Charlie is back in Paris, sober, determined to get custody over his daughter, Honoria, who lives with Helens sister, Marion.

Wharton portrays Grace and Alida having certain peculiar comparisons. Mrs. Ansley and Mrs. Slade appear to reach the realization after remaining friends for several years now, they scarcely