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Throughout the novel, Charlie takes dangerous risks to help his family. Charlie started working for Squizzy Taylor after his father died. This was a risk considering that Charlie would be working for a criminal, Charlie continues working for Squizzy, until in Chapter 18, Charlie quits working for Squizzy due to him not caring that one of his runners, Norman got bashed up by Jimmy Barrow together with his gang after the liquor run. “...My days running for Squizzy Taylor were over, Now I was running for me.” (pg 170). For the events working for Squizzy Taylor, Charlie could’ve ended up in

During this time of year Hollings father has shown his competitive side and is again arrogant about his business. Because the school is choosing an architect Mr.H gets cocky when Holling is asking where to take Meryl Lee Kowalski. “If Hoodhood and associates gets the Junior High school contract - and we intend to - then Kowalski and Associates may very be no more.”(138). He laughed again. And Mr.H continues with his selfish personality. When Mr.Kowalski presents Mr.Hoodhood concept he gets all red, but as soon the kalowski business withdrew their bid Hollings dad is arrogant again. “They were going to win hands down, what chumps.” “They are

Before Charlie had the operation preformed on him, he had friends at the bakery he worked at. They were not really his friends because

paced. This trait is important to Sergei’s character because it shows that Sergei’s character is

One of the themes that Silvey portrays in the book is 'morality vs ethics'. To begin with, it is shown that Charlie is a good person and has a clear mindset of what 'morality vs ethics' means to him, but this all changes when he gets to know the towns ‘bad boy.’ He learns that the community would address Jasper as a thief due to the fact that he steals which he admitted to Charlie but states he steals for survival and would have starved if he didn’t. When being asked by Jasper to assist him disposing of the body of deceased schoolmate Laura Wishart, he had to keep it from everyone in the town to help protect Jasper as the town would just denounce him without providing Jasper with a trial. This lead to Charlie really questioning if they were doing the right thing. He soon learns that before Laura died Jasper and she was good friends and Jasper would protect her at nothing. He kept all Laura's secrets which proved that Jasper is very trustful. Charlie also admitted

This discrepancy between the two characters is emphasized through Duddy Kravitz’ rigorous climb to social and financial influence. It can be observed, that both Willy Loman and Duddy Kravitz share an inner drive to acquire monetary wealth. Although this drive is instilled within them by the society they respectively live in, they experience diverging degrees of superficial success due to their ability, or lack there of, to adapt to the ruthless and competitive nature of a capitalistic society. It becomes evident that due to his

Charlie grabbed the gun quickly and now the mob is very suspicious of Charlie. “You were so quick to kill Charlie, and so quick to tell us who we had to look out for. Well maybe you had to kill. Maybe Pete there was trying to tell us something.” (Serling pg. 13) This quote shows that because of Charlie and his first instinct being to kill and tear the shotgun out of Don’s hands does not put him in a great light and it gives even more reason for the people to be suspicious of Charlie and his actions. It shows that no one trusts anyone anymore on Maple Street and they are all in a panic now because they just killed a man.

     After leaving Poland to venture out into the New World of America, the Smolinsky family endured impoverished lifestyles and countless hardships. For example, After an incident between Reb and the landlady (which made Reb revered), boarders began to occupy the Smolinsky family’s

While the Smolinsky family is not literally “hanging on Bessie’s neck for her wages”, this displays to the reader how desperation affected them. The metaphor acts as a bridge between the reader and the event, therefore allowing them to feel the same worry that Sara harbors through the shared experience of “hanging” without support. It is important for the audience to relate to the characters, yet this cannot happen if the author’s portrayal gives little humanity to their characters. Hence, when Yezierska writes that financial help according to Sara and her family is a “stab into our burning shame”, it shows that despite any prior notions of poverty being an “ornament”, they still have human wants and needs. Moreover, it shows that her characters are not emotionless apathetic beings that live only on their faith; they too endure deviations from what is expected of them. At any rate, repeated similes have an analogous consequence on the reader's thoughts. Multiple comparisons within a small section of text compound the anxiety, bombarding the same heavy emotions that Sara feels onto the reader in a way that they can sympathize with her, and in turn, Yezierska herself. Altogether, these literary moves go further than simply entertaining the audience, but informing them about what the world was truly

In Chinatown, we see someone who is comfortable in his place; the character of Los Angeles gumshoe J.J Jake Gittes. Jake seems, on the surface, to be doing pretty well. Whatever happened in Chinatown (a word soon to be associated with crime and corruption), it doesn’t seem to consume him. His business is good, he’s making good money, he’s not a broken down alcoholic or basket case; Jake exhibits some of the common traits of a hard-boiled private investigator who specializes in adultery cases. However, unlike the traditional private eye, Jake can be disarmingly human. We know that he is a very passionate detective, and he is not only in this game for money when he says, “Listen, pal. I make an honest living. People only come to me when they're

Both Miller and Lorraine created a theme of achieving goals, Willy Loman just wanted to earn the respect of the people around him while Walter Younger wanted to get rich quick and support his family. American politician Reubin Askew once said, “We must stop talking

The topic of this paper is gangsters in organized crime can either work alone or work with other gangsters. When people commit crimes with other criminals, their personal ties to each other become strong when there is especially trust or there could be no trust, however, those ties can become strong at some point.

Willy believes that wealth is the key to your happiness, and the extent of your wealth is exposed by the amount of materialistic items one has. Miller explains Willy’s thoughts in Timebends, “The publicity apparatus tells Willy that if he works hard like Edison, that if he perseveres like Goodrich, that, if he is “well-liked” like Dave Singleman, then he will rise like Charley and become rich and powerful.” Willy’s thought process is foolish, and his belief that failure cannot be tolerated in his family causes him to lie about his success. This is evident when Biff says “We never told the truth for ten minutes in this house! [130]” The American Dream is to blame for imprinting wealth is all you need to be happy, into Willy’s mind.

    Anton Chekhov uses The Cherry Orchard, to openly present the decline of an aristocratic Russian family as a microcosm of the rapid decline of the old Russia at the end of the nineteenth century--but also provides an ominous foreshadowing of the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution in the disparate ideals of his characters, Trofimov and Lopakhin, however unintentionally. The Gayev family and their plight is intended as a symbolic microcosm of the fall of the aristocracy in society at large. Though the merchant Lopakhin is presented as the character who holds values of the new, post-aristocratic age, the student Trofimov espouses the political sentiments that will ultimately replace both the

More than that, he wanted to become that man that he admired who died “the death of a salesman” in his “green velvet slippers” whose funeral garnered many loving friends and family (Miller 81). Audiences can relate as they too have had an idol in their head that they have aspired to become. Seeing the aspirations of Willy warrants pity in the audience when they see what a failure Willy Loman becomes. Failure is what consumes Willy. He understands that that is his life. But in his deep deluded mind twisted with broken memories and false hopes he can never truly accept it. He never has that point of discovery that a tragic hero does. Willy Loman never realizes the doom waiting for him at the end of his downward spiral. Even his attempts at suicide, and finally his one successful one, were misguided and were attempts to become something greater. No one shows up at the funeral besides his family. He is not great like a tragic hero. Willy Loman is a nobody, he is only a tragic hero to himself, just like everyone in the audience. Everyone sings the song of their own tragedy . That is the American tragedy. Everyone is the American tragic hero with their own tragedy. Arthur Miller captures the Average man with the average family and average dreams, living an average life with no gain in the end.