Reputation In If I Quench Thee, And Slipper Satin

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Reputation is something that is immensely valued among humans. People care so much about their reputation that they will go to unimaginable lengths to keep it intact. This is shown in the short stories If I quench thee, and Slipper Satin also in the film Easy A and the short film Day Trip. the characters in these texts all gain a bad reputation for the decisions they make or the people they associate with. These characters in one way or another try to regain their reputation or decide to just live with it. However as humans we usually try to regain a good reputation because we care more about what people think about us rather than actually becoming good people. In the short story If I quench thee, Arthur Stern, an obvious man of wealth who reluctantly went to visit his daughter, Monica. He is shocked and displeased when a black man comes to …show more content…

When he arrives at his destination he chooses to enter a pub where it goes silent as the men who are in there realise he is a gang member. Presumably they go silent because of the reputation of gang members and that they tend to be violent people. Another example of gang members having this reputation is shown at the beginning of the video when he enters a dairy and the store owner immediately goes behind the counter and closes the access way to behind the counter. I believe the reason he does this is because he is wearing a patch and gangs are often associated with robberies and violence, therefore the store owner is frightened that he may harm him. I think this is an unfair assumption because he may not like the reputation he has because it is not based off of people's knowledge of him its based of their knowledge of the gang. This is similar to ‘If I quench thee’, ‘Slipper Satin’, and ‘Easy A’, as the gang member does not intend to have that reputation but has it anyway because of the way information spreads around

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