The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit

I’ve had the air kicked out of me playing backyard football with the neighborhood kids, but it wasn’t at all comparable to standing in front of a mirror getting ready to get married in a much too expensive Brooks Brothers Silver Regent Fit Flannel Windowpane 1818 Suit decorated with a lime green bow tie, because at least in my backyard the oxygen came back into my lungs. Rays of light beam through the multi colored leaf shaped windows, creating patterns in the deadly air. The dressing room is library

The brisk chill air blow by while i stood waiting for the bus. My family can only have two cars because of the low amount of gas for everyone’s cars. That's why I ride the bus, have no other way to get home from school. “Hey Jess!” I hear my name being called. It’s Alex, her short hair wavy hair is being blown all over the place. “Hey Alex.” I reply, “do you want to work on Mr. Johnson’s homework together? My parents won't home till late tonight and I don't want to be alone for that long.” “Yeah

Doctor T.J. Eckleburg’ are first introduced in chapter two, and the literal presentation of this symbol is that it is a billboard of an oculist (eye doctor), and its purpose is to serve as an advertisement to this doctor's business, “But above the gray land and the spasms of bleak dust which drift endlessly over it, you perceive, after a moment, the eyes of Doctor T.J Eckleburg”. (Fitzgerald 23) In chapter eight, Mr. Wilson is talking to his neighbor, Michaelis, about the events that occurred right

Organization Man, the List of Ten traits could be a serious liability for an ambitious young man in business. If you graduated from business school in, say, 1960, the vast majority of career opportunities were in large corporations, where you’d be expected to take orders from others, follow rigid procedures, and check your impulsivity -- behaviors that are difficult for entrepreneurial people. And if you couldn’t learn to subsume yourself to the group, becoming just another man in a “gray flannel suit,” chances

On the contrary to phonies, there are of course winners to this game of life. However, the winners aren’t alway really “winners” especially through Holden’s eyes. On that note, there are many characters in the novel that I would consider we as readers would believe them to be the “winners”. The first character is Stradlater. Stradlater, Holden’s roommate, is the sort of boy that schools like Pencey are made for: good looking, athletic, well-rounded, and above all else, absolutely “normal” (10 Pinsker)

conclude their man's work. Just as their environment surrounds all persons, fences surround animals and men surround women. As she looks out to these men, we look at Elisa. Although she is doing the "feminine" work of gardening, she is dressed like a man. She wore a black hat low on her forehead to cover her hair, thick leather gloves covered her hands, and clodhopper shoes covering her small woman's feet. A "big corduroy apron" covered the dress making "her figure look blocked and heavy" (396). Unconsciously

part of the world around us. They can convey messages, expressing that which words do not. Gentle blue tones can calm a person and bright yellows can lift the spirits. If an artist is trying to express sorrow or death he often uses blacks blues, and grays basically he uses dreary colors. Without one word, a driver approaching a red traffic light knows to stop. Colors are representative of many things. In his novel The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald uses color symbolism throughout as a major device

having a powerful body. Nick is afraid of getting attacked by Tom because he is really muscly. 4. Who is Jordan Baker? What does Nick find appealing about her? Jordan Baker is Daisy's friend Nick meets in West Egg. He likes her for her slender body and gray eyes. Nick likes Jordan's voice too. 5. What is Gatsby doing when Nick first sees him? Gatsby is looking out at the water. When nick is about to call out to him, Gatsby stretches out his arms towards the water. Nick is shocked and puzzled by Gatsby's

America was forever impacted by major political, social, and economic shifts in the 1900 's. After the global-scale World Wars in 1914-1918 and 1939-1945, an interesting period for America developed: the Golden Age of Capitalism (started in the late 1940 's/early 1950 's), marked by economic growth that allowed the expansion of the middle class, consumerism based off of credit, and an anti-communist atmosphere. Some of the most unique and pivotal points of change of social norms in American history

Water Imagery in Seize the Day Saul Bellow's Seize the Day is one of the most profoundly sad novels to be written since Tender is the Night. On this day of reckoning, during the seven hours or so that comprise the action of the novel, all the troubles that constitute the present condition of Wilhelm Adler descend upon him and crush him, leaving him penniless, alone, and in such profound misery that one can hardly imagine his going on. He is, as he says, at the end of his rope. This has been one