Home : A&P and Other Stories : Study Guide : Character List A&P and Other Stories Characters by John Updike Character List Freddy "Ace" Anderson The protagonist of "Ace in the Hole." Ace is a profoundly depressed husband and father who reminisces frequently about his time as a high-school basketball star. Evey Ace Anderson ’s pragmatic wife. She is Roman Catholic and alternates rapidly between friendly sarcasm and vindictiveness. Ace ’s mother Ace ’s mother watches her granddaughter
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Mercy Among the Children and Unforgiven The film Unforgiven tells the tale of a former killer who embarks on a journey in order to kill two criminals and later confronts a law driven sheriff who controls a town with brute force. Towards the end of the film the protagonist confronts the main villain and kills him. Before dying the man complains that he did not deserve to die the way he did and in response the protagonist replies that “Deserves got nothing to do with it”. This line has left a legacy
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Summary of Ideology‚ Genre‚ Auteur By Robin Wood In Robin Wood’s essay: Ideology‚ Genre‚ Auteur‚ Wood revisits Hitchcock’s films and analyses the different characteristics in the films. Wood focuses mostly on Shadow of a Doubt and It’s a Wonderful Life in which he compares and describes the different values of Hollywood cinema. One of Wood’s major points to hear two opposing views. Wood stresses that a critics job should be to look at a piece as a whole rather than at the particular aspects of one
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In the movie “Mean Creek” we are faced with many characters with their own set of morals and personalities. However‚ like all movies there must be a villain who does evil deliberately and is the principle bad character in the film. It is without a doubt that Marty is the real villain in Mean Creek. This is shown through his costume‚ various camera angles and props that flood the film. Marty is shown throughout the film as villainous due to many factors‚ but one element Estes uses to communicate
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The videogame industry has grown substantially since its conception. It has grown from a fun little project that students did for research or just to do something different to a multi-billion-dollar industry. This growth has led to more jobs and publicity not all of which is good. Sexism and racism are two of the largest problems that people accuse the videogame industry of having. While at the inception of videogames these accusations rang true‚ in current time they have become a point of heated
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The Quantitative Qualities of Vile Villainous Villains What makes a good Villain? This year as we have read multiple stories and books‚ analyzing the qualities and acts of villains in these stories nearly all of them have been misogynist. Therefore one might conclude that Villains‚ especially good ones‚ need to be misogynist. That is incorrect‚ and I will tell you why‚ focusing on the Villains; Iago from Othello‚ Count Fosco from The Woman in White‚ and Jean Brodie from The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
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Every story needs a bad guy. Who else will create conflict? Or even give the people someone to despise.The villain is one of the most crucial people in literature‚ movies‚ and history. The villain is the person who constructs the storyline and brings about the hero. Therefore‚ if I had to choose between the role of a villain and the hero‚ I would make the unlikely selection of portraying the villain. The villain is able to teach a countless number of life lessons to the audience. For example‚ a villain
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Similarities can be attained through Macbeth and yet Relate to A Tell Tale Heart Circling the idea of stories relating much to another story is clearly demonstrated in the transfer of character comparisons in Macbeth by William Shakespeare with “A Tell Tale Heart” by Edgar Allen Poe is very evident. In the two stories‚ both of the main characters are not that different then each other; they are both built upon the same characteristics and lead forward by their thriving ambitions. Firstly‚ in
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There comes a time in every young man’s life for him to break a barrier of reality to go from invincibility to mortality. They have to take that leap forward gradually‚ but as they do they will make mistakes along the way and have to learn from the bad ones. The short story “Greasy Lake” by T. Coraghessan Boyle is about three young men who have to break that barrier of reality in one horrible night by making mistake after mistake‚ only they have to learn from their mistakes quickly or they wont get
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Cinematography and the Concept of Ownership in Il Posto Il Posto (Ermanno Olmi‚ 1961)‚ on the whole‚ makes a statement against an immerging consumer and corporate culture and its dehumanizing effects. The main character‚ Domenico (Sandro Panseri)‚ is a young man looking for employment in lieu of education or some other form of self-enrichment. During his quest he becomes infatuated with a fellow applicant‚ Antonietta (Loredana Detto). After the initial phase of their application process‚ they wander
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