Edie plays a very strong character in “On The Waterfront”. She’s brave and influential. She’s also religious church going girl who would always stick to her morals. I also believe that Edie’s character believes in everything without thinking too deeply. Even though she doesn’t know what she’s getting into, finding who killed her brother is her motive. She's influenced Terry to always do the right thing and look for justice. This influences made Terry realize at the end that he’s not a “bum’. Even though she’s an outsider, and doesn’t know the environment, she still gets justice. At the end when Terry was getting beaten up by that Johnny Friendly she gets afraid of losing Terry and she chose him over justice at the end, which also shows her …show more content…
Another reason why I believe they like each other is because Edie chose Terry over her education because when her father tells her to leaves, she refuses giving Terry as a reason to stay. #3 I believe that alcohol plays and important role in the movie. It represents as an object that can calm you down, and will also help you went you’re upset. When Terry takes Edie on their first date, Edie gets upset and terry offers her a drink. I believe that it is an object used to make you feel better when you are upset. In another scene when Johnny gets killed and Terry’s thinking about the situation, Johnny Friendly offers him a drink. Which is also an example of alcohol calming you down when you are stressing out. Then at the end when Charlie dies and Terry goes to the bar looking for that Johnny to kill him, the bartender offers him a beer. And after having a sip of beer he calms …show more content…
At that time difficult decision to make and I was too very to decide. They are both great and respected schools. But most of my friends were going to Northeastern. As much as I wanted to go where my friends did, I didn’t. After comparing many facts like, the price of education, and the travel distance, I chose UMass Amherst. Even though I still feel bad for not being close to my friends, I have the benefit to get the same education at a much cheaper school. And I also feel that my decision was right because it is much closer to my home and I can go home whenever I want. #6 I believe that Edie’s action and personality speak the ideas expressed by Gandhi. She’s brave, religious, and sticks to her morals which is also an image of Gandhi. She also is very kind hearted who’s looking for justice but at the same time she does not want anyone to get in danger in her journey. Gandhi was also very ambitious who was looking for justice for his country but in finding that justice he did not want to put someone else’s life in danger. Edie also shows some personality of being a naïve because she’s not familiar with the environment but is still voluntarily going in a loop of danger without thinking. She doesn't think about the consequences because stubborn who wants the truth. Similarly, all Gandhi wanted for India was justice. He would get in trouble all the time without realizing
The characters Ed and Emily are both disturbed people who cannot bear to lose the person they love. In conclusion to losing their loved ones they decide upon murder, although Ed does not kill his ex Terri he does threaten to do so. Emily murders her lover to keep him from ever leaving her side. Ed threatens to kill his ex in order to scare her into staying, but when that does not work he kills himself, not being able to live without her. Both characters show signs of possibly having mental illness or just simply being unstable. One example of this is in “A Rose For Emily”, in paragraphs 26-28 it talk about how Emily would not let the town’s people bury her father. It says, “She told them that her father was not dead” (406). Emily was clearly not capable of dealing with the death of her father, she did not want to let him go. Another example of how the characters display being unstable is in, “What We Talk About When We Talk About Love”. In this short story is says, “Terri said the man she lived with before Mel loved her so much he tried to kill her. Then Terri said, ‘He beat me up one night. He dragged me around the living room by my ankles. He kept saying, ‘I love you, I love you, you bitch’” (411) The characters from both of the short stories showed signs of how they were incapable of dealing with
... This line implies that the drinking will never end and that no one can stop him from drinking no matter what you do. This poem is a poem that has beautiful imagery that consistently connects the reader to what’s going on in the actual poem like these lines from “Country Western Singer”, “And the blood I taste, the blood I swallow / Is as far away from wine / as 5:10 is for the one who dies at 5:09” (37-40). These lines have to do with the final push of the alcoholic and the fact that they lost the battle against alcoholism and did in fact pass away.
Throughout the whole film, Malloy displayed himself as a bum. He rarely works, and he is a has-been boxer. Others occasionally criticize him about his boxing career; explaining to him that he was no good. Because a lot of the criticism got to Terry’s head, he was unable to associate with others. This proves so with the relationship he has with Edie Doyle. He is barely able to hold the relationship with Edie, even though she is the one whom Terry loves so much. Up to this point, Malloy does not display himself as a hero, or even close to being one.
drunk and asks the waiter to complement the singer. This is a show of his
“If only ya’ had listen’d” George whispered as tears swelled in his eyes. Slim looked away and shouted at an elderly man who worked at the bar and was cleaning down tables. “Two whiskey’s please.”
... alcohol to try and bury the remorse he has for the innocent people butcher murdered. ‘…And as for McPherson I’m in charge around here, and I’ll decide who does what. If I wanted that drunken bugger out I’d bring him, but I don’t so…’(Pg. 99) Butcher also thought of McPherson as a weak link to the police force and did not give him the respect he deserved.
In the play, Ruined, Lynn Nottage the playwright shows how alcohol is important to the people of the Congo and how alcohol changes oneself. The play is based in the war-torn Democratic Republic of Congo in a bar/brothel that is owned by Mama Nadie. People come in the bar for sexual service and for a drink. The people of this area come to the bar to let go of their regrets because of the war or there hard work. One important man comes to the bar and changes from alcohol. His name is Christian a salesman to Mama and an uncle to one of Mama's workers. Throughout Ruined Christian a once respecful sober man changes because of his new desire for alcohol instead of Fanta.
To illustrate, in The Great Gatsby, alcohol is a social lubricant. For instance Nick Caraway says he has only drank twice. The second time was when Tom invited him to a party at his apartment in New York City, where he has his affairs with his mistress myrtle. Nick drinks to mute out the chatter and gossiping about Gatsby and describes everyone as superficial and fake. He describes the whole afternoon as “[having] a dim, hazy cast over it” (Fitzgerald 32).Although when The Great Gatsby takes place, the Eighteenth A...
Another way these characters avoid living their life is by drinking continuously, in a way to make the time pass by faster and forget. ?Haven?t you had enough? She loses count after 10 cocktails,? (pg.11) proving to the audience her own self denial, and how she wastes every day. Unfortunately, there are many, who in society today, do the same thing to get out of a situation they?re trying to hide or a difficult time they?re going through. This relates back to their affair which they?re obviously hiding and trying to get through this time in their life.
When Oliver died Malachy commemorated his son by drinking stout, with his friends. Pa Keating, Frank’s uncle, was an opportunistic drinker and among one of Malachy’s friends who celebrated poor Oliver’s young life with stout. Surprisingly, Pat Sheehan, another uncle of Frank who had been dropped on his head, could still comprehend a yearning for alcohol. Having brought alcohol to a sort of “memorial” to Oliver, Pat became possessive of his stout. “Uncle Pat sat on the floor with his arms around his bottles and he kept saying, They’re mine, they’re mine, for fear they’d be taken away” (McCourt 83). Angela grief stricken over the loss of her son, Oliver, resorts to pills. Her mother encourages Malachy to go to the pub and have a few drinks. When Angela protests, knowing very well the level of Malachy’s addiction, her mother claims, “He doesn’t have the pills to ease him, God help us, and a bottle of stout will be some comfort” (McCourt 83). This sort of pressure from society is commonly practiced throughout the memoir. With a great deal of illness and deaths throughout the story there are plenty of reasons to find “small comfort” with the stout....
Edie is critical throughout many parts of the story. When Alice Kelling comes to town, Edie is fast to show disapproval. She is especially disapproving of her looks saying “her bust looked to me rather low and bumpy” (208 par. 14). Alice is Chris’s fiancé and even if Edie does not admit it, she has feeling towards Chris. Edie may have some jealousy towards Alice and may be insulting her because of it. Regardless of the reason, Edie is showing how critical she is. That is not the only time Edie is critical of Alice’s looks. Edie also says there is “nothing in the least pretty or even young-looking about her” (208 par. 14). This is another time when Edie is disapproving about Alice’s looks. Edie finds it necessary to be critical of Alice because she feels like Alice is getting in the way of her and Chris’s romance. Although Edie just met Chris, she feels a connection towards him. One evening, Edie stays up and watches Chris come home with Alice. After seeing them walk of separately without saying a word, Edie “got back in bed and imagined about me coming home with him, not like that” (210 par. 1). This is when the reader sees how Edie truly feels about Chris. Edie does not outwardly express her love for Chris, but she does have many internal thoughts that show her love for him. Her internal love for Chris is one reason for her criticism towards Alice. Edie is very critical in the story, especially towards
“ Stay Strong, Stand up, Have a voice”- Shawn Johnson. This quote epitomizes this story perfectly. There are characters that demonstrate this lead in literature. In the short story, “The Truth About Sharks” Beth, is introduced as the dynamic character. Beth from The Truth About Sharks by Joan Bauer, wakes up and is in a very lazy, tired and cranky mood. She doesn’t want to do anything her mom asks/wants her to. So, instead she went shopping for new pants. Beth goes to Michelle Gail’s and meets Hannah the sales person. She starts trying things on, Beth leaves her stuff in the changing room and walks over to the sales rack by the elevator and gets falsely accused for stealing the pants she had on. Madge P. Groton took her to her office and calls for backup and Beth is later greeted by Officer Brenneman who takes her to the police station. On their way there Beth asks for a chance to prove herself with a witness she has back at the store. Her witness Hannah who luckily remembers her and defends Beth because she was very polite to her in the morning. Beth stands up for herself and goes back to the store demanding an apology, which she later gets and a really pricey gift card given by the manager on behalf of the problem caused in his store. A study through Beth when you stand up for yourself you get something good out of it.
Alcohol is a symbol for the millionaires sadness throughout the movie. When he arrives home after his suicide attempt, the first thing he does is go to the alcohol cabinet and offers the tramp a drink. Throughout the whole movie, more than less, the millionaire is drunk. He blacks out and often doesn 't remember the tramp. Him drinking shows that he isn’t happy with his life. Everything that follows after his suicide attempt proves why he drinks and isn’t happy.
Johnny is performing and calls June out to sing a song with him, that she had previously recorded with her ex-husband, Times a Wasting. June was already apprehensive about singing the song, she felt it was not appropriate, but they continued anyways. While performing she sees the women from the store that told her getting a divorce was an abomination, she starts looking uncomfortable and Johnny kisses her on the check. She then runs off the stage into the dressing room, followed by Cash. She looked her door, but he bust in anyways, she tells him, “to leave.” He then goes into his room and sits on the couch, beside the fishing pole, you can tell he is very frustrated, because he felt the kiss was innocent. He then begins to destroy his dressing room throwing everything he gets his hands on. He then reaches into his pocket and takes his narcotics.
The alcohol makes him “forget” all the miserable things he has done. He is drowning in his sorrow, and refuses to drench alone. He finds comfort in alcohol. The lyrics makes it clear that he has done some unforgivable things in his past, and in order to get out of that misery, he drinks. He says, “One or two could free my mind, this is how it ends, I feel the chemicals burn in my bloodstream”, which makes it clear that he wants to live without knowing what he did. His past is killing him, and this new addiction is the only way to forget it. His audiences are those people that have done some regretful stuff, which is bringing them down. “Blood Stream” entered the UK single chart at number 81, and rose to number