Who Is Jeremy Slick: Necessary Or Harmful?

* This is a will contest case involving a codicil to the Last Will and Testament of Wheelock A. Bisson, M.D., deceased.

The speaker’s genuine sincerity towards his student is exemplified by his sorrow over his loss. In a Shakespearean manner, he regrets not being able to “nudge you [Jane] from this sleep,” or in other words, he has realized he can never have Jane back. To further illustrate the speaker’s loss, at the moment the speaker states that “you [Jane] are not here,” he changes the mood by the inclusion of words such as “spiney,” “maimed,” and “damp.” He also exposes that he is alone in a cemetery, presumably at her grave. Even the inscriptions on the tombstones cannot alleviate the speaker’s pain; consequently, his grief over the loss of his student demonstrates the speaker’s sincerity towards his student.

The place that takes the main character Jonathan to decide to write the letter is Jack forced to do because of his family expectation, and it affects Jonathan to do in the same way by his father. His aunt Frances says his father has much faith in him wants him to be the family writer. Therefore, he and his aunt are going to cover his elderly grandmother that his father has died while they do not shock his grandmother and kill her by this news. Also, Jonathan does not want his grandma feels disappointed about his father unsuccessful in financial and wants her to feel proud of Jack’s her son. For example, Jonathan says “my grandmother was bragging to her cronies about her son’s new life in the dry air of the desert” (Doctorow 3). It is evidence to show that Jack’s mother is very caring about his son's new life in Arizona. Although Jonathan knows that does not look good behavior to lie, he is unwilling to write the letter for

Moreover, Phil’s youngest son said about his father, “My father and I only board here.”. This further conveys the amount of time Phil spent at the office rather than at home; his own family didn’t even consider him in permanent residence at his own home. Other than anecdotes, Goodman additionally uses varying syntax to illustrate her annoyance at Phil’s choice of lifestyle. When describing Phil’s daily routine, her sentences are short, definitive, showing her distaste for Phil. “To Phil, it was work. He always ate egg salad sandwiches at his desk….On Saturdays, Phil wore a sports jacket to the office instead of a suit, because it was the weekend.” Goodman contrastingly uses lengthy, detailed sentences and phrases when describing Phil’s family, to convey her pity for them and show that Phil should have been spending more time at home rather than at work. “The youngest is twenty, a boy, a high school graduate who has spent the last couple of years, like a lot of his friends, doing enough odd jobs to stay in grass and food. He was the one who tried to grab at his father, and tried to mean enough to him to keep the man at home.” Although Goodman describes Phil’s family with sympathy and care, she does use sarcasm as a means to criticize the obituary’s description of the family. “She would be ‘well taken care of’.’”, Goodman quotes from the obituary, in reference to Phil’s wife, and she says “His ‘dearly beloved’ eldest of the ‘dearly beloved’

Charlie is a car salesman whose business is going down hill. Charlie and his girlfriend are on their way to Palm Springs when Charlie gets a call from his friend and co-worker. He tells him that his fathers lawyer has been trying to reach him, because his father was dead and the funeral was the next day. Charlie who never had a good relationship with his father decided to go out there to pay his respects and to go get his share of his fathers estate. When the lawyer read the will, Charlie finds out all he received was his fathers 1949 Buick and his prized rose bushes. The lawyer says the rest of the estate is going to a beneficiary. Charlie is mad at what his father did. He tries to find out who get everything else, because it is worth about three million dollars. Charlie finds out the name and location of the beneficiary, but does not know anything else. So Charlie goes to Wallbrook institution to find out who this guy is. While he is inside a man comes up to

Known as an exceptional, kind, good man, Bernie went above and beyond specifically to the older widows in town who required his services. Ms. Margerie Nugent, was a wealthy, better known as unpleasant, mean or callous to the town residents. Bernie befriended this unfriendly widow, eventually she appoints power of attorney to Bernie and he starts spending how he wants. Bernie felt trapped, smothered, and the sole source of entertainment for the widow. Bernie had enough and snapped when he shot Ms. Nugent. Bernies defense was that he wanted to preserve her body to give her a proper funeral. Nugent's stockbroker uses Tiede's missed payments to call and request the help of her long lost family. Which is when the house in searched and they discover her body in the freezer. Only then after nine long months Bernie confesses to the murder, while claiming her emotional abuse as a mitigating circumstance.

He looked at me as if he wished I wasn’t there.” Why is that? What is making poor Gerald so embarrassed? After reading a sentence full of suspense like; “I should tell you here what I found out later at the funeral” we readers start to ask inquisitive questions such as- whose funeral? And what is it that the narrator knows that we don’t? What’s written in the card of the flowers?

Diction and syntax play more prominent roles in the formation of the piece, but the satirical references add interest and further advance Goodman’s conveyal of her feelings. The Onion, a humorous newspaper, uses satire to make fun of society humorously and ironically. Goodman uses this same technique to mock the harshness of the workforce and poke fun at Phil’s “perfect Type A” life. This straightforward article makes fun of fake obituaries and the typical businessman’s lifestyle. Goodman makes it very apparent that Phil lived the life of a typical businessman. She cleverly mocks his relationship with his family, calling them “dearly beloved,” likely taking that form his obituary, then continuing to explain the distance between himself and his family members. His “dearly beloved” children either say “had nothing to say” to him or asked others for clues on their father’s life. Goodman includes another line of satire in the seventh paragraph. A colleague of Phil gave his regards to Phil’s wife, Helen, saying “I know how much you will miss him.” She answered, “I already have.” Phil was likely “dead” to the family long before his actual death from coronary thrombosis. What did he have to live for besides his uber-important job and the family he barely knew? Maybe the “egg salad sandwiches at his desk” and “monthly game of golf helped him survive his workaholic lifestyle a little longer than seemed

Throughout this journal, I predict that Clara’s cousin Johnnie Mae has the most responsibility in Clara’s death. One can see that it is Johnnies fault for a few reasons. The first reason is he was told to keep a goo eye on Clara at all times because her parents did not want her to get hurt or lost. Clara’s parents were strict with Clara going with the older kids because she thought something might happen one of these times. Clara’s mom might of seen this coming but never actually thought it would happen to her and her family losing a family member.

The author points to the fact that Phil died “finally and precisely, at 3:00 a.m. Sunday morning” (Goodman 1) caused by “coronary thrombosis” (Goodman 1). By using precise terminology that is not seen on a daily basis, Goodman is able to compose Phil’s death as if it was told by a report and not as a person would, furthering his lack of noteworthiness by subjecting him to what seems to be a paper. Furthermore, Goodman shows Phil’s lack of notability by introducing the eldest son’s research before the funeral. The son is said to have “went around the neighborhood researching his father, asking the neighbors what he was like” (Goodman 1). This clearly shows Phil has little remarkability, the fact that his own family member cannot recall who his father was and resorts to going around the neighbourhood asking for his parent’s history is a clear testimony to this characteristic.

Like F. Scott Fitzgerald’s famous character, Jay Gatsby (a working-class man), Miller’s common man, Willy, has a funeral that few people attend. Willy’s wife Linda first asks, “Why didn’t anybody come?” And, she then inquires, “But where are all the people he [Willy] knew?” (137). Evidently, Miller’s description of Willy’s funeral suggests that no one cares when the common man dies.

The man’s quivering death throes have all but ceased before Slick finishes his monologuing, now cold and slack against the mobster’s vice-like grip. What a shame-- all that time spent devising clever ways to insult one’s mother, and not one person had the decency to stay alive long enough to be subjected to them. Regardless, a triumphant, toothy grin works its way across his blood spattered features. Nip ‘em in the bud before they get too comfortable. Teach ‘em not to move in on our turf.

From this conversation there is an overall sense of disparity to keep the death hidden and the conversation is awkward between the two. Since the wife is the only one who knows that he has died and

side choose not to tell Jonathan’s grandmother about his father’s passing, but he does not reveal

During the visit of Mr. Woodifield it becomes clear that the boss is in the acceptance stage, more or less, or has even moved on beyond that. As Mr. Woodifiled talks about his daughters' visit to the grave of his son, which is close to the boss's son's grave , the boss gets reminded of his son and his death. He doesn't show a real emotional reaction and it seems like he already has accepted his son's death. It seems like he doesn't want to talk about it anymore, in the end it becomes obvious that he hasn't yet accepted his son's death requests absolute silence and non-disturbance from his secretary, so he can think/grief about his loss, which already can be seen as the stage of depression.