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This Old House Paper

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“This Old House” by David Sedaris, is a story of a younger adult misunderstood by his own family and most of society who simply just, “longed for a home where history was respected.” After taking a trip to visit an old friend in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, he decides to stay in the city longer by finding work and a place to live. He finds work as a dishwasher in a restaurant hoping to eventually advance from his current position. After finding work, he then unexpectedly meets his future landlord who also has the same appreciation for the past. After moving in to his new home, a friendship blossoms between the main character and his landlord, even with other tenants’ opinions and ways of lives that have other opinions on how life …show more content…

The antagonist of the story would be the landlord, Rosemary and the other tenants of the home. This is because her portrayed way of life attracted the narrator to Rosemary’s house, which in return almost solely based his decision on living there. Later in the story Rosemary changed into another person that the main character almost could not recognize. With her change in appearance from vintage clothing to more updated clothing, as well as her almost disregard for her so much loved antiques when the main character first moved into the house. The other tenants, mainly the character Chaz, would constantly ridicule the main character and seem as if their lives were more how life should be lived. In the entire story being told, there are no exact dates or times stated by the main character as to when the story being told took place, but from reading through the entire story, it could be concluded by readers that the story is from a more modern period of time. With the way the main character refers to the out of date clothing styles he chooses to wear and descriptions of the past from the depression era and how the other characters, such as the main character’s father and the tenant Chaz always ridiculed the way he dressed or his opinions on how life should be lived. Even though there is no exact time frame for the story, the reader does know where a majority of the story took place. The main

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