Short Story The Lamp At Noon And The Painted Door

The time period, season, location, and surroundings of a character reveal a great deal about them. Kate Chopin's "The Story of An Hour" is an excellent example of how setting affects the reader's perception of the story. There is an enormous amount of symbolism expressed through the element of setting in this short story. So well, in fact, that words are hardly necessary to descriptively tell the story of Mrs. Mallard's hour of freedom. Analyzing the setting for "The Story of An Hour" will give a more complete understanding of the story itself. There are many individual parts that, when explained and pieced together, will both justify Mrs. Mallard's attitude and actions toward her husband's death and provide a visual expression of her

In his story “The Lamp at Noon”, Sinclair Ross writes about the great depression and how it effects a couple and their baby as they live through it. The purpose of the story is to display the importance of decisions and how choosing the right one can effect us heavily. Ross does a great job to convey his message by showing us the severe consequences of some decisions. Everyday each of us are faced with decisions that in time produce an outcome that will affect our futures.

Thinking of the farmhouse window made her have a slight change of heart, and knowing she would be able to have the window again changed her behaviour. While describing the farmhouse window, the thought of the old window coming back gave her have a new outlook on life. It was almost like the window brought back a piece from her old life making her feel more whole again. The window is symbolic because it shows the past of Leah and how she is slowly stepping away from the past. Allowing for a bigger window is symbolic because it resembles Leah’s mind, being more open and seeing things more clearly. The house itself has an overall darkness to it and this is shown through Leah’s character and the description of the kitchen, “In the kitchen a naked bulb hung from a twisted back cord [...] Its hard yellow glare revealed every grease mark on the motley wallpaper, every chip in the rust-coloured sink, it shone unmercifully on Ruth’s tired face and unkempt hair” (Morgan 4). The more light that is brought in can have an effect; this effect shows how the darkness that once overshadowed their family is coming to an end. The light from the window is a symbol showing that there is more light coming their way, showing that Leah’s dark and unpleasant mind is changing along with the window.

When two people are tied together by their vows, it is each of their responsibility to fulfill the happiness of one another, and if one cannot then they should not expect the same in return. Sinclair Ross’s short story, “The Painted Door”, reveals the growing unhappiness of a farmer’s wife, Ann, who feels alone as her husband John leaves home to help his father in the harsh conditions of the storm. Ann seeks comfort and companionship with another man after 7 years of feeling neglected and unhappy with her husband. The responsibility for Ann’s infidelity, lays not only on Anne but John himself.

The poem “The White Porch” by Cathy Song is an illustration of maturity and coming of age. There is an innocent tone to the beginning of the poem with sensual undertones as the writing progress’s. In the poem, a woman is reminiscing about her young womanhood as she sits on her porch awaiting her presumed lover. Song creates the character of the woman to be of a homemaker, describing her duties taking care of laundry, having a cake in the oven and snapping beans in her lap. Through the visualization that Song creates it is assumed that the woman is pregnant, and as she is waiting for her husband she thinks back to the things she herself used to do when she was younger with her own mother. She is reflecting on the way her mother raised her thinking about how she wants to raise her own child. The speaker admits to sneaking in her lover late at night behind her mother’s back, but does not seem to feel remorseful because all her decisions led to where she is in her life now. Cathy Songs poem “The White Porch” portrays the transition of a girl into a woman using symbolism, imagery and simile.

The seven rooms in the house also conveyed stages in life ending with death. These rooms were set up from east to west. This meaning that the sun comes up in the east and goes down in the west, and death comes in the darkness. "In this chamber only, the color of the windows failed to correspond with the decorations. The panes here were scarlet--a deep blood color." The guest's avoided this room because it was a sign of death.

"Although there was evening brightness showing through the windows of the bunkhouse, inside it was dust". This shows that the light tries to get in but never manages to penetrate the darkness. This is important to the themes of the story because workers' hope for a future farm is just like the light while the cruel reality is like the darkness. Their efforts to realize this plan is just like the light trying to penetrate the darkness, but their dream

Carver presents symbolism throughout his story to represent a darker side of the human heart when it is wounded. “Don’t, she said. You’re hurting the baby, she said. I’m not hurting the baby, he said.” The baby represents the relationship of the man and woman. There is not an actual baby that is being hurt, but their relationship together. Once the “issue was decided” towards the end, it represents how the man and woman’s relationship was no more. In addition, snow is brought up in the beginning to start the mood of the relationship. “...The snow was melting into dirty water.” The snow represents the pure white relationship they had in the beginning. Once the snow melted into dirty water, that shows that their relationship is tainted, fading away, and can never be the same. This also leads into the light that is set towards the house. “The kitchen window gave no light.” The window showing both the darkness of the outside and the inside of the house, represents how darkness is taking over the relationship, and how there is no more light to shine on their love for each other. All three of these symbols connect back to how the man and woman have a codependent relationship.

The text is very descriptive and loaded with symbols. The author takes the opportunity to relate elements of setting with symbols with meanings beyond the first reading’s impressions. The house that the characters rent for the summer as well as the surrounding scenery are introduced right from the beginning. It is an isolated house, situated "quite three miles from the village"(947); this location suggests an isolated environment. Because of its "colonial mansion"(946) look, and its age and state of degradation, of the house, a supernatural hypothesis is implied: the place is haunted by ghosts. This description also suggests stability, strength, power and control. It symbolizes the patriarchal oriented society of the author’s time. The image of a haunted house is curiously superimposed with light color elements of setting: a "delicious garden"(947), "velvet meadows"(950), "old-fashioned flowers, and bushes and gnarly trees"(948) suggest bright green. The room has "air and sunshine galore"(947), the garden is "large and shady"(947) and has "deep-shaded arbors"(948). The unclean yellow of the wallpaper is

In a healthy relationship, both parties should be able to openly confide in one another, and understand that the other’s intentions are to benefit the other and yet respectfully compromise on decisions together. With that said, in Sinclair Ross’s short story entitled The Painted Door, the message of how lack of communication can result in dire circumstances is exquisitely envisioned. Moreover, as the seemingly conventional young rural couple’s story gradually progresses, the implications of Ann, the emotionally suppressed wife of John being left alone during an unbearable blizzard fatally brings to end their partnership. Through symbolism and other literary devices, Ross cleverly constructs the themes of isolation and loyalty in this 1939

Sinclair Ross wrote the short story “The Painted Door” in 1939 for Queens Quarterly, a magazine, in Canada. Within the short story Ross emphasized the struggles of experienced by those on the 1930’s Post-Depression Canadian prairie. He does this by describing one day where a farmer named John makes the nineteen-mile march across the snow-covered hills to his father’s home, to make sure he is okay before the blizzard. Meanwhile John’s wife Ann is at home with their young neighbor Steven having dinner and playing cards. As the night wares on the two sleeps with one another and John, who has finally made it home, turns back out to face the blizzard and freezes to death. Through this harsh and realistic short story Ross highlights the importance of loyalty, sacrifice, isolation, and aging.

The short stories “The Lamp at Noon” by Sinclair Ross and “Granite Point” by W. D. Valgardson are similar because of their theme, conflict and mood. Both of the short stories showcase the theme of selfishness and the negative effects it causes. “That may not matter to the others but I won’t have that kind of talk about my wife” is meant to show us the selfishness of Mathew. Blinded by jealousy, Mathew told Kloski to stop coming to his house and meeting with Ellen. Mathew had only been thinking about himself and not about what Ellen had thought. Without accounting the pain it might bring to Ellen, Mathew told Kloski to stop meeting with Ellen because he did not want another man to have a relationship with his wife that is better than his own.In

Undoubtedly, the image showing a moving cart dropping off boxes in front of a door leading to a magical land, represents the theme of losing one’s innocence. During the introduction of the story, the protagonist is innocent in the sense that she believes that the world is a perfect place. As the story proceeds, the protagonist begins to lose her innocence when she concludes that travelling is a rather uncomfortable task. By the last scene in the story, the protagonist relieves herself of all innocence when she arrives at the prairie and witnesses the decrepit state of the homes and residents living in the prairie. As represented by the image of a moving cart transporting boxes to an open door containing a magical land, the

Where the window represents the light of the outside world coming into the dark home, it can also represent how the world may see us from the outside looking, such as the simple old man contemplating by the window. But could also represent the superego, or how we project ourselves into the world, but then as the shadows grow darker near the staircase, the mood of the painting changes. With the stairs representing the parts of our mind, or ego, and contain our memories, desires, and ideals, the parts of our mind in which we communicate within ourselves to see who we truly are. And as the staircase darkens going upwards, so do the thoughts and memories throughout our lives. In the lower right corner, we see what looks like a woman stoking a fire. But I see this as representing the id, or the most primitive part of our psyche, the leftover remnants of when we were simple animals crawling out of the jungles of Africa. Where our primal instincts, sex drive, lust for violence, and impulses. With the woman by the fire standing in the shadows, stoking the flames of our instinctual nature, ever present, but always

The escalating sounds of frenzied footsteps and shrieks had begun to frighten me, as I was walking to my friend’s home. Out of nowhere, my eyes started to burn and a hysterical cough overwhelmed my entire body. I had lost complete awareness of my surroundings. The oxygen fleeing my body with every cough left me in a state of terror. A faded figure wrapped their arm around me and assisted me into the lobby of an apartment building. As I partially regained my consciousness, an overlapping group of voices said,”Iyi misin?”, “Are you okay?” in Turkish. I nodded out of habit, although all I could think about was when my cough was going to cease. Forcing my eyelids fully open, I saw two distinct figures; a man with a torn piece of cloth wrapped around his head, whom I presumed helped get me off the street, and a concerned young woman awaiting outside an apartment door. A mid-aged woman rushed out of the apartment towards me, with her hands full. She leaned over my head and gently poured milk over my face, assuring me that I was going to feel better. I enjoyed the soothing sensation all over my face, though it was brief. Then, the woman begun squeezing lemon juice onto a white cloth, and told me to breathe into it. After a short while, my mind had been freed from captivity of the tear gas, and I came to an inspiring realization. These strangers had helped me without question. At the time, it did not matter to them who I was, where I was from or what beliefs I held. They most likely