The Death Of The Scarlet Roses By F. Scott Fitzgerald

"You are stupid, fat, and ugly. You are an only child. You are un-loved. You are scared of mostly everything in the world."

“None of my pants fit anymore Li, and my shirts are getting too tight, and I just feel so unattractive and-”

In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel, The Beautiful and Damned, the main character of Gloria, Anthony’s wife, and Dot, Anthony’s mistress represents Fitzgerald 's wife, Zelda. The way that Anthony meets Dot, as well as the personalities and the lives of these women are very similar to Zelda Fitzgerald. Gloria is the sophisticated city girl, while Dot is the simplistic country girl sides of his wife. Gloria can be also classified as the wild public version, while Dot is the troubled private version.

“Well, good- that’ll be less work for the both of us,” she grinned. Her heart was still beating fast, but at least it wasn’t pounding in her ears any longer.

After a few months of being confined to the basement, the devil flapped its wings and flew out the chimney, and the Shrouds family never saw it again. People’s animals started to disappear, and they blamed the devil for it. They said that it started to kill and eat the flocks. Some people even said that the Jersey Devil would terrorize little children because it was jealous it could never be a normal child. Ever since then, the devil has been spotted in different places in the New Jersey Pine Barrens, making that same screaming noise.

Walker’s devil is a “great black man” dressed in “Indian garb” and “begrimed with soot” (Irving, p. 3, 4). This holds stark contrast to Stone’s “soft-spoken, dark-dressed stranger,” portrayed as a businessman with a “pocketbook full of papers” (Benet, p. 12, 13). Each appearance is appropriate to how each author treats his devil: Walker’s devil is an arcane, ancient force represented through wild and exotic appearance while Stone’s devil is a rational, negotiable being represented through an incredibly human appearance. As a part of both agreements, each man sells his soul to the devil; the only different thing about Walker’s deal is that the devil holds the stipulation that “the money found through his means should be employed in his service” (Irving, p. 7). Once again, Walker’s devil is a more sinister force in the story. Both depictions hold appropriate to the ultimate end of each

“How do we want to make you look? With that red hair, we can make you quite the temptress, but if you want to play that kind of thing down, we can work that out, too,” he said matter-of-factly.

Furthermore, the author never mentions directly that the devil is present in the story, but he gives out clues so the reader can infer it. For example, he mentions “he was dressed in a rude, half Indian garb, and had a red belt… swathed round his body… his face was begrimed with soot, as if he had been accustomed to toil among fires and forges.” Irving also mentions he has cloven feet and calls him

In Stephen King’s short story the Devil’s intention was to shatter Gary’s life; while it left Gary with a mortified experience. Gary could have lived his life in absolute fear, expect he took his parents to church and lived a faithful profiling life. Regardless of a Gary following the rules his parents provided him with the Devil

The key characteristic that Gary uses to deduce that the Devil was not a regular human is that his “eyes were completely orange”(829). The eyes refer to the common concept of hell being a fiery, hot landscape; furthermore, they incorporate a sense of unease in both the protagonist and readers because of the abnormality.

Among many twentieth-century writers who have attempted to write about murder and mystery, William Faulkner’s ability to create an uncomfortable mood is incomparable to any other. "When Miss Emily Grierson died, our whole town went to her funeral." In the introduction of A Rose for Emily, the pages are immediately infested with the theme of death, which brings the reader to question why this story has such a depressing tone upon separating the front cover from its pages. Making the solemn mood such an integral part of this piece not only provokes thought within the reader, but also gives a sense of security. It is clearly spelt out that the author is trying to make the audience feel a certain way. This specificity so early on in the piece makes his writing more believable and settling into the discomforting tone. A Rose for Emily is a poetic collage of psyche solutes meant to provoke life-altering observations and internal search.

“Your shorts are above your fingertips, and the straps on your shirt are much too thin. I’m going to have to ask you to call your parents to pick you up, so you can go home and change into something more school appropriate”

said “I need to get your head size for something, that's all." "Well, Okay, "

“My brothers…that fatal hunt is up, and harrying our streets today. See him there, that angel of the pestilence, comely as lucifer, shining like Evil’s very self! He is hovering above your roofs with his great spear in his right hand, poised to strike, while his

the king of all evil: Satan (Spenser 914). As his “red and black” body descends upon his foe, “blazing