Comparison and Contrast Essay Analyzing literature can be achieved in many different ways and it should help the read gather a better understanding of the piece. The pieces of literature that I want to examine further are “The Swimmer” and “Prisoner on Hell Planet”. Both of these short stories contain similar and not so similar elements of literature. After reading these stories I gathered that it would be best to compare and contrast the following elements of literature; writing style‚ mood‚ and
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best described as happiness and living in the lap of luxury‚ but the “American Dream” is fictitious. Winter Dreams and The Swimmer both have characters‚ who try to achieve their own perception of the American Dream‚ but in the end‚ fail. The “American Dream” comes with a great cost. F. Scott Fitzgerald depicts that in his short story Winter Dreams. The Swimmer by John Cheever depicts the “American Dream” as something already achieve but then‚ it is lost. The “American Dream” is not just one exact
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In The Swimmer and in Young Goodman Brown both Nathaniel Hawthorne and John Cheever wrote romantic literature dealing with the issues and value of common natural man in society. They both show symbolisms in colors through imagery and through everyday items‚ but overall their themes and motifs are completely different. In The Swimmer the main character Neddy Merril swims around pools down the river of Lucinda which “..was a pale shade of green.” (p20)The pale shade of green represents nature and
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Problems of the Past Usually‚ when one’s past problems are pushed away and neglected‚ they grow in size until they are too much to handle. The two short stories The Swimmer by John Cheever and A Rose for Emily by William Faulkner portrays how a reluctance to accept or let go of one’s past can lead to many problems and difficulties. This is emphasized through the development and actions of the characters‚ Neddy and Emily‚ the aspects of southern life and American suburbia‚ and the irony and structure
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The glass menagerie Tennessee Williams uses several techniques to express social criticism in his play ‚The Glass Menagerie’. The genre of epic drama gives an appropriate foundation for the author to apply other and different techniques‚ which will be demonstrated with some examples in the following sections. They will be discussed in an order of how they could appear to the reader or spectator.In an epic drama the spectator is supposed to be an observer and not to identify him- or herself with
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Vail Between Past and Present In life we will face difficult decisions and the way we handle them will determine how the rest of our life will play out. In comparing and contrasting Death of a Salesman written by Arthur Miller and The Swimmer written by John Cheever‚ I will examine the differences and similarities between the main characters Willy Loman and Neddy Merrill. Two tragic characters that have arrived to the same place in life‚ a place where the vail between past and present seems to have
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The urbanization of the United States of America has progressed throughout the entire history. Since 19th century the country has been transformed from a predominantly rural nation into an urbanized one. However the attitude of Americans towards the city and urban life has been changing over the years. Main social issues of 20th century have been changing from combating poverty and racism in 1930s - 1940s through predominance of wealth and status and the emptiness of suburbia in 1950s - 1970s‚ culminating
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In James Joyce’s “Araby” and Flannery O’Conner’s “A Good Man Is Hard To Find” both authors direct the reader’s attention to a key moment of insight or discovery by building the readers expectations throughout the story and then surprising the reader with an ending where the main character contradicts the readers built expectations‚ thus highlighting the epiphany. Joyce directs the reader through the uses of setting and narration while O’Conner heavily uses dialogue. In Araby‚ the opening scene
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Ralph Ellison’s “Invisible Man”‚ captured the essence of the African American struggle with equality during the time and their rightful place in American society. “The Swimmer” by John Cheever depicts the suburbia lifestyle of an upper middle class society and the typical misrepresented archetypal “Leave it to Beaver” American household that was popular during the late 40’s to 1950’s. Allen Ginsberg‚ a founding member of the postwar
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of Country by Susan Cheever In this assignment‚ I am going to analyze and comment on the American writer‚ Susan Cheever’s (1943) essay‚ My Little Bit of Country from the anthology Central Park published in 2012‚ where parts of my assignment will focus on the use of contrasts and the themes explored in the essay. Susan Cheever’s essay is based on her own memories of Central Park in New York City‚ which is her ‘little bit of country’. In My Little Bit of Country‚ Susan Cheever contrasts the life in
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