The Dame Who Stole My Heart And My Life

Men in this world don’t understand how women can build you up and then leave you with nothing. A man can be almost possessed by a woman. She can make him do anything. That is why I am here in this cell. I am awaiting my death because of her. How could I have known she had changed. It just shows the ruthlessness of a woman.

My name is Dean and I was a detective for 22 years on the force. It was July 19^th and I was going to meet an old friend from high school. Billy, my old friend, was my best friend in high school but he grew up in a rough home. He has been in and out of jail since high school. So I was going to go out to eat with him right after he got out of jail. He picked a restaurant in our old neighborhood. I met him there and we had a great time, talking about all the old times playing football together. We were leaving when I spotted her. It was Diane, my neighbor growing up. I parted ways with Billy and went over to talk to her. She was beautiful. She had Long black hair, hazel eyes, and she was wearing a long black dress. We sat down and had a few drinks and caught up. I always had a thing for her growing up. The radio was on and there was an announcement about a man who escaped from the insane asylum named Randy freeman. When she heard the announcement she freaked out and ran out of the restaurant. I ran out to see what was wrong and she was gone.

Startled from the whole evening out I went home and tried to sleep it off. I went to bed around midnight and around 3 there was a banging on my door. I rushed to the door and there she was soaking wet blood all over her hands. She wrapped her arms around me and cried. I was so confused.

She said “I have no where else to go, he’s after me.” I asked who “he” was and she said “my ex boyfriend Randy.” “You mean the guy who escaped from the insane asylum?” I said. She looked at me with fear and said yes. I knew I had to do something so I tried to call 911 when I realized that the phone was dead.

I tried to relax and think things through. I locked the door up and let Diane lay down and try to catch her breath. She was so tired she fell asleep. I looked at her, she was so peaceful asleep. She needed my help. Around four and the morning there was another bang on my door and Diane woke up and started to freak out. I grabbed my gun and ran to the door. I turned to see where she was and she was running down the fire escape. I ran after her screaming for her to stop but she didn’t I chased her all the way to her house.

I found her crying in her room. The room was torn apart. It looked like there was a struggle earlier. She kissed me and told me to protect her. I said “I will never let anything harm you”. I tried her phone and it was dead too. I was now just realizing how real this really was.

Around six in the morning we heard the door open. It was him. “honey I’m home, are you awake.” She started to clutch me tightly saying softly in my ear “it’s him don’t let him kill me.” We were hiding behind the bed when he walked in. I took out my gun and cocked it. I saw the orange jump suit and I fired. I ran over to see if he was dead and he was. I looked back to see her face and she was gone.

I looked all around and I couldn’t find her. I went to the people next door to use there phone. I called the station and they were there in 5 minutes. They came up to see me with the body and asked why did I kill him. I said “It is the escaped man from the insane asylum and he was going to kill my friend Diane.” The officer walks up to the body looks at it and said “This isn’t the man who escaped he works at the plant down the street.” My heart dropped. I said “It can’t be!” She told me it was her ex boyfriend attacking her. One of the cops who knew the man said “I know this man he would never attack anyone. Wait who are you talking about she?” “Diane the girl I was protecting.” The man said “Diane is this man’s wife!” I was in shock. I had to find her I needed her to tell me what was going on.

They took me in and questioned me and I told them the same story I am telling you know. Even though I was a detective they seemed spectacle about my story. Then good news at least I thought. They found Diane at work. She came in and looked like nothing ever happened to her. She was dressed up and looked like she had came to work. She kept yelling what happened to my husband. Then it hit me she faked the whole thing.

They Questioned her and she said she left for work early and got there around 6:30. I killed her husband at 6. I then realized I killed an innocent man. She set me up. I had no clue what to do.

I was arrested later that day. I was in shock and didn’t know what to do. A dame double crossed me! What could I do even my friend’s in the department didn’t believe me.

I was put on trial at the end of the month. I sat in court and told my story again but no one believed me. The worst part was listening to the girl of my dreams, my neighbor growing up, Diane lying to put me away in jail forever or worse death.

After 5 long days of trial the jury had finally reached a verdict. I knew what was coming but hearing those words killed me inside. We the Jury find the defendant guilty of all charges. The judge sentenced me to death by the rope.

I have been sitting in this cell awaiting my death.

I am writing this story so maybe someone out there will here my story and believe me.

“Hey Dean you have a visitor” said the guard.

He takes me to the room and there she is.

I was speechless. I wanted to know why. I needed to know. She started out telling me everything “I sat at the bar knowing you were there, knowing you wouldn’t overlook a woman in a black dress. Billy and I planned the whole thing. He picked the restaurant he called in a phony call to the radio station saying the man escaped from the asylum, he cut the phone lines, he banged on the door, and he gave me the clothes and a ride to work early.” “Why me” I asked. I found out that my husband was cheating on me I visited Billy and asked if he would do it for me. He said he was done with jail but he could make a plan for me to do it. He then got involved and I told him I didn’t want it on my conscience. Then he got a call from you so I said why not him. I knew my husband wore a orange suit to work so why not say he was an mental escaped patient. I knew you liked me and you would do anything for me and I took advantage of you. Any more questions”. I was shocked. I asked “but why me?” Her response was “You were the only one who amounted to anything in our neighborhood and I have despised you ever since we were kids. I hate you and I will never tell anyone the truth.” She walked out and went away. There was nothing I could do I was to die but really I had already died inside.

 

“A Long Day’s Journey into Night” WTF?

On our next stop on the tour guide through hell we will take a look at A Long Day’s Journey into Night by Eugene O’Neil. The play shows one day in Eugene’s, plays Edmund’s in the play, life and experiences with his screwed up family.The play shows the day he was told he has consumption. Mary ,the mother, has been trying to get over a morphine addiction but can’t seem to leave the drug behind her. James Tyrone, the father, was a great actor at one point in his life and is a very cheap man. Edmund’s older brother ,Jamie, is a loser in every way. His father has paid for him all his life and all he has done is got himself kicked out of college, lose his jobs, and end up as a drunk his whole life.

The biggest thing about this family is everyone has an excuse for everything. They are all depressed mainly because of their mother Mary. If it wasn’t for her addiction they wouldn’t fight as much. The perspectivism is themselves telling their minds to drink or take drugs to make their life better so really it’s their addictions that are the perspectivism in this play.

TYRONE. I’m not going to argue with you. I asked you to turn out that light in the hall.
EDMUND. I heard you, and as far as I’m concerned it stays on.
TYRONE. No one of your damned insolence! Are you going to obey me or not?
EDMUND. Not! If you want to be a crazy miser put it out yourself.
TYRONE. [with threatening anger] Listen to me! I’ve put up with a lot from you because from the mad things you’ve done at times I’ve thought you weren’t quite right in your head. I’ve excused you and never lifted my hand to you. But there’s a straw that breaks the camel’s back. You’ll obey me and put out that light or, big as you are, I’ll give you a thrashing that’ll teach you —! [Suddenly he remembers Edmund's illness and instantly becomes guilty and shamefaced] Forgive me, lad. I forgot — You shouldn’t goad me into losing my temper.
EDMUND. [ashamed himself now] Forget it, Papa. I apologize, too. I had no right being nasty about
nothing. I am a bit soused, I guess. I’ll put out the damned light. [He starts to get up]

They are all ashamed of their flaws and take it out on each other. All of them know that Mary is back on the needle but none are strong enough themselves to do something about it. She is almost a lost cause know in her life. The fog is a metaphor for Mary being on drugs away from reality. The reason she hates the foghorn is it represents the rest of the family calling to her to come back to reality where she doesn’t feel comfortable, where she is off drugs.

It wasn’t the fog I minded, Cathleen. I really love fog. It hides you from the world and the world from you. You feel that everything has changed, and nothing is what it seemed to be. No one can find or touch you any more. Its the foghorn I hate. It won’t let you alone. It keeps reminding you, and warning you, and calling you back.

Mary is losing her mind and everyone knows it she blames her morphine addiction on her hands, rheumatism she calls it, she is really gone and all they do know is sit there and drink there sorrows away because they let her get that bad.

I haven’t touched a piano in so many years. I couldn’t play with such crippled fingers, even if I wanted to. For a time after my marriage I tried to keep up my music. But it was hopeless. One-night stands, cheap hotels, dirty trains, leaving children, never having a home – [She stares at her hands with fascinated disgust.] See, Cathleen, how ugly they are! So maimed and crippled! You would think they’d been through some horrible accident! [She gives a strange little laugh.] So they have, come to think of it. [She suddenly thrusts her hands behind her back.] I won’t look at them. They’re worse than the foghorn for reminding me – [Then with defiant self-assurance.] But even they can’t touch me now. [She brings her hands from behind her back and deliberately stares at them -- calmly.] They’re far away. I see them, but the pain has gone.—Mary

It kills the pain. You go back until at last you are beyond its reach. Only the past when you were happy is real.—Mary Tyrone

This plays leaves you with many questions unanswered. What happens to the mother and to Edmund. Where does the family end up and why doesn’t anyone have the courage to stop May from doing the needle. But without a strong soul in the family this family will never live happy ever again.

None of us can help the things life has done to us . They’re done before you realize it, and once they’re done they make you do other things until at last everything comes between you and what you’d like to be, and you’ve lost your e self forever.— Mary Tyrone

 

 

 

The Glass Menagerie

The Glass Menagerie shows many attributes of modernism, such as perspectivism and an open ending. Tom Wingfield is having a flash back to the mistakes he has made in his life. He is a silent character telling the story through the flash back. Tom is a man who lives with his mother and sister and is the sole provider for the family. His mother, Amanda, is an annoying loud mouthed woman who’s only objective in life is to get a “gentleman caller” for her daughter. The daughter, Laura, is a shy quite girl who feels her flaws hold her back from society. She was scared to make friends even in high school.Laura was scared to make a mistake in life period. That was her only real flaw. Tom loves his sister very much and through it all loves his mom too but he just can’t seem to take Amanda anymore:

“On those occasions they call me – Ell Diablo! Oh, I could tell you things to make you sleepless! My enemies plan to dynamite this place. They’re going to blow us all sky-high some night! I’ll be glad, very happy, and so will you! You’ll go up, up on a broomstick, over Blue Mountain with seventeen gentlemen callers!” Tom says this to Amanda in a fit of rage.
“Every time you come in yelling that God damn ‘Rise and Shine!’ ‘Rise and Shine!’ I say to myself, ‘How lucky dead people are!’” (Tom, Scene Three)

“You think of yourself as having the only problems, as being the only one who is disappointed. But just look around you and you will see lots of people as disappointed as you are.”

Tom shows that Laura lives in an imaginary world where she really lives inside her head because she never fit in throughout her life. She would keep glass ornaments that were her prized possessions in her life which symbolized her fantasy world. But her mother pushed her back into the real world with her obsession to get her a gentleman caller. Her mother is trying to recreate her younger years through her daughter. Amanda always talks about her callers and how wonderful they were. Now that she sees Laura has no one and is getting older she pushes her to look and has Tom look too. It has become Amanda’s fetish in life:

“She lives in a world of her own-a world of-little glass ornaments.” Tom

“All of my gentlemen callers were sons of planters and of course I assumed that I would be married to one and raise my family on a large piece of land with plenty of servants. But man proposes-and woman accepts the proposal!-To vary that old, old saying a little bit-I married no planter! I married am man who worked for the telephone company!” (Amanda, Scene Six)

Tom looks at how he used to just get away from the house for a while and go to the movies. He used the movies as his escape from the world. It gave him peace for a while so that he wouldn’t go crazy. His mother didn’t like him going there because he would stay out late and go to work on a few hours of sleep. But without the movies he would not have had his sanity. The only bad thing about the movies was it gave him the idea to run away and make it big just like the movies he watched:

Yes, movies! Look at them- All of those glamorous people-having adventures-hogging it all, gobbling the whole thing up! You know what happens? People go to the movies instead of moving! Hollywood characters are supposed to have all the adventures for everybody in America, while everybody in America sits in a dark room and watches them have them! Yes, until there’s a war. That’s when adventure becomes available to the masses! Everyone’s dish, not only Gable’s! Then the people in the dark room come out of the dark room to have some adventures themselves-Goody, goody!-It’s our turn now, to go to the south Sea Island-to make a safari-to be exotic, far-off!-But I’m not patient. I don’t want to wait till then. I’m tired of the movies and I am about to move!” (Tom, Scene Six)

Tom regrets giving his mother what she asked for a gentleman caller. Tom brings his friend Jim over to meet his sister Laura, who has had a crush on him since high school, and have dinner with them. Tom brings him in and Laura gets sick because she sees her dream man in her house for her. Later after diner Jim and Laura talk in the dark because Tom didn’t pay the electric bill to buy a ticket out of town. They start talking about high school and life and are laughing and having fun. Once Laura feels comfortable with him he shows him her Glass unicorn, her most prized possession, and let’s him hold it. He puts it down and later when they were dancing they broke off the horn. This shows how the whole great evening is coming an end as he mentions he is getting married. Tom breaks his sisters heart and shatters his mothers dream by doing this:

I descended the steps of this fire escape for a last time and followed, from then on, in my father’s footsteps, attempting to find in motion what was lost in space. . . . I would have stopped, but I was pursued by something. . . . I pass the lighted window of a shop where perfume is sold. The window is filled with pieces of colored glass, tiny transparent bottles in delicate colors, like bits of a shattered rainbow. Then all at once my sister touches my shoulder. I turn around and look into her eyes. Oh, Laura, Laura, I tried to leave you behind me, but I am more faithful than I intended to be!

Through the whole memory in the end Tom can’t take back what he did because he is to afraid of going back and beging for forgiveness. He doesn’t know whats better to leave them forever or to go back. His venture has been nothing like he thought it be and through it all he can’t blow out the candle light he left them in so he can forget them:

I reach for a cigarette, I cross the street, I run into the movies or a bar, I buy a drink, I speak to the nearest stranger—anything that can blow your candles out! —for nowadays the world is lit by lightning! Blow out your candles Laura—and so goodbye… (Tom, Scene Seven)

A lot of questions are left unanswered in this play. What ever happened to his mother and sister? Where did he go? Where did his father go? What did his mother and sister do without him providing for them? Forever these questions will be asked but only the characters themselves will ever know.

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Desire Under the Elms

Desire Under the Elms brings out a great deal of modernism, such as perspectivism and an open ending. Eben is hearing a silent character throughout entire play,his mother. Eben believes his mother was worked to death by her husband, Eben’s step father. His step father only wanted his mother’s farm and didn’t really need his mother. Eben believes the only way to ease his mothers spirit is to own the farm for his own and to some how get revenge for his mothers death. When Cabot gets home after randomly going away one day he has a new wife. Cabot’s new wife Abbie ,who Eben deep down has affection toward, believes that the house is now her’s because it was sort of deal in her mind, marry Cabot get the farm and full ownership when he dies. Cabot says it’s all her’s too when they got there:

ABBIE–(with lust for the word) Hum! (her eyes gloating on the house without seeming to see the two stiff figures at the gate) It’s purty–purty! I can’t b’lieve it’s r’ally mine.CABOT–(sharply) Yewr’n? Mine! (He stares at her penetratingly. She stares back. He adds relentingly) Our’n–mebbe! It was lonesome too long. I was growin’ old in the spring. A hum’s got t’ hev a woman.

Eben hates Cabat and wants him gone. Now that they are married Abbie wants a son.
CABOT–(excitedly clutching both of her hands in his) It’d be the blessin’ o’ God, Abbie–the blessin’ o’ God A’mighty on me–in my old age–in my lonesomeness! They hain’t nothin’ I wouldn’t do fur ye then, Abbie. Ye’d hev on’y t’ ask it–anythin’ ye’d a mind t’!

ABBIE–(interrupting) Would ye will the farm t’ me then–t’ me an’ it?

CABOT–(vehemently) I’d do anythin’ ye axed, I tell ye! I swar it! May I be everlastin’ damned t’ hell if I wouldn’t! (He sinks to his knees pulling her down with him. He trembles all over with the fervor of his hopes.) Pray t’ the Lordagen, Abbie. It’s the Sabbath! I’ll jine ye! Two prayers air better nor one. “An’ God hearkened unto Rachel”! An’ God hearkened unto Abbie! Pray, Abbie! Pray fur him to hearken! (He bows his head, mumbling. She pretends to do likewise but gives him a side glance of scorn and triumph.)

Knowing that she will never get a son from the distgusting man Cabot, Abbie needs a way to get one and Eben is her ticket to pleasing her new husband without going to bed with the old bat. She really wants the farm and a male child will make it her’s. Eben is not easily persuaded until he thinks of his mother. Knowing that he can put his mothers soul to rest makes it so much easier to do the dirty deed with Abbie. Also the sweet revenge he will feel for himself against that disgusting man Cabot.

EBEN–(to the presence he feels in the room) Maw! Maw! What d’ye want? What air ye tellin’ me?
ABBIE–She’s tellin’ ye t’ love me. She knows I love ye an’ I’ll be good t’ ye. Can’t ye feel it? Don’t ye know? She’s tellin’ ye t’ love me, Eben!
EBEN–(his face suddenly lighting up with a fierce, triumphant grin) I see it! I sees why. It’s her vengeance on him–so’s she kin rest quiet in her grave!

Abbie is really not in love with Eben. The whole time she acts over lust and greed. Eben on the other hand is acting only because he believes he needs to please the persectivism of his mothers soul. He doesn’t really know what love is and is not sure if he really loves Abbie. He only acted upon the the thought he would bring piece to his mothers soul. He is also like any other man and acts when the temptation is put in front of his face. At that moment he really thinks he loves her, but really it is the sexual desire of an unintelligent man. Once things turn on him and he realises Abbie did what she did because she wants the farm for herself. Eben feels betrayed and cheated. He has done nothing to help his mother only make it worst. Abbie tells him she loves him and the truth about the whole thing. Eben out of pure broken heartedness says he will leave and he doesn’t want her anymore.Abbie, to prove she loves him and to make him not leave, kills the child. Abbie’s mind was not stable at all at this point Maybe it’s a little ghostly revenge from the mother of Eben who pushed her to kill for all the pain she put her son through.

ABBIE–(hysterically) I done it, Eben! I told ye I’d do it! I’ve proved I love ye–better’n everythin’–so’s ye can’t never doubt me no more!

EBEN–(dully) Whatever ye done, it hain’t no good now.

ABBIE–(wildly) Don’t ye say that! Kiss me, Eben, won’t ye? I need ye t’ kiss me arter what I done! I need ye t’ say ye love me!

The whole thing comes to an open ending when Eben goes to the sheriff Cabot finds out about the whole thing and Abbie is going to jail. Eben comes back and begs for forgiveness and says he loves her she forgives him and the sheriff shows up and takes them both away because Eben doesn’t want her to go away alone because he feels responsible for it so he admits to helping.

SHERIFF–(embarrassedly) Waal–we’d best start.

ABBIE–Wait, (turns to Eben) I love ye, Eben.

EBEN–I love ye, Abbie. (They kiss. The three men grin and shuffle embarrassedly. Eben takes Abbie’s hand. They go out the door in rear, the men following, and come from the house, walking hand in hand to the gate. Eben stops there and points to the sunrise sky.) Sun’s a-rizin’.Purty, hain’t it?

ABBIE–Ay-eh. (They both stand for a moment looking up raptly in attitudes strangely aloof and devout.)

SHERIFF–(looking around at the farm enviously–to his companion) It’s a jim-dandy farm, no denyin’. Wished I owned it!

This ending leaves you hanging with so many questions. By this point in the story I think they finally meant it when they said I love you to each other. Why the hell not they are both going to jail because Abbies insane and Eben is plain old stupid for going to jail with her. But what happens to the the two love birds? Do they ever get out? Do they ever see each other again? What happens to the farm? What happens to the other two boys? Do they make it and strike gold? When will the old bat Cabot die? This is really why Billy Joel had it right saying “Only the good die young”. We will never know.

Street Car Named Desire is anything but Perspectivism

The characters in Streetcar are looking at each other through different view points. Blanche is a little screwed up because of all the things that have happened in her life, so her viewpoint is screwed up. Blanche sees Stella as her last resort, the only escape route through all of her bad times and mistakes in her life. Stanley is in a weird situation, he is a man desperate for the love of his wife, and views this as an intrusion on his territory. Stanley looks at this as the end of the good times in his marriage because of this witch barging in on their good life. He will do anything to be the end of Blanche.

Blanche DuBois: Please don’t get up.
Stanley Kowalski: Nobody’s going to get up, so don’t get worried.

Stella’s view is almost impossible to have in this play. She needs to help her sister and please her hubby at the same time. Stella is stuck in the middle of this whole mess where she cannot succeed, either way she will lose. Stella is one who cannot get enough of her Husband and will do anything for him, even though he is a drunk and abusive husband. Stella is a little screwed up because she is turned on by it all.

Stella: He smashed all the lightbulbs with the heel of my slipper.
Blanche DuBois: And you let him? Didn’t run, didn’t scream?
Stella: Actually, I was sorta thrilled by it.

Through all of this bad stuff going on in Blanche’s life she see’s that what stanley does to stella is wrong and he should not get away with what he does to her. She wanted Stella to run away with her. They can run away and leave both of their problems behind them. Stella would never leave her husband she showed that before when she said she cries like a baby when he goes away for a week.

Even though there is no real silent narrator, other then maybe Stanley’s contacts who never are in the play but give him information to get Blanche out of town, There are not really many perspectives lurking in this play, it’s pretty straight forward. This play is meant more toward open endings. With such a great ending that leaves you wondering what happens to all three of them. After Stanley has his first child is he still abusive? Does Stella ever forgive herself for letting Blanche go? Does Blanche ever get out of the mental hospital? No one will ever know we will always just debate over it and wonder.  Sparknotes

“The Killers” and Perspectivism

The Killers is another pretty straight forward short story. There is not much persepctivism in the story. The two killers are totally diffrent persinalities, one named max is a loud mouth who is not a very good killer at all because he talks way too much, the other is Al who is a very good killer who keeps a low profile. The two are sent from Chicago by the only silent vioce in the whole story. He is probably a huge mobster who hired these men to take care of his bussiness. They came to kill the boxer who comes to the diner every night.

I’ll tell you,’ Max Said. ‘We’re going to kill a Swede. Do you know a big Swede named Ole Anderson?
‘Yes.’
‘He comes in here to eat every night, don’t he?’
‘Sometimes he comes here.’
‘He comes here at six o’clock, don’t he?
‘If he comes.’
‘We know all that, bright boy
us.

He never even seen us.’
‘And he’s only going to kill him for, then?’ George asked.
‘We’re killing him for a friend. Just to oblige a friend, bright boy.’
‘Shut up,’ said Al from the kitchen. ‘You talk too god-dam much.’

While holding the two people hostage Max the killer talks way to much about the whole situation. Nick the Person running the diner knows he has to do something about it. His conscience tell him this is wrong. So at 6 o clock the men and women started to come in to the place the men scadadeled and Nick had to go warn the boxer.

‘I was up at Henry’s,’ Nick said, ’and two fellows came in and tied up me and the cook, and they said they were going to kill you.’
It sounded silly when he said it. Ole Anderson said nothing.
‘They put us out in the kitchen,’ Nick went on. ‘They were going to shoot you when you came in to supper.’
Ole Anderson looked at the wall and did not sat anything.
‘George thought I’d better come and tell you about it.’
‘There isn’t anything I can do about it,’ Ole Anderson said.
‘I’ll tell you what they were like.’
‘I don’t want to know what they were like,’ Ole Anderson said. He looked at the wall. ‘Thanks for coming to tell me about it.’
‘That’s all right.’
‘No. I got in wrong.’ He talked in the same flat voice. ‘There ain’t anything to do. After a while I’ll make up my mind to go out.’

This man had his conscience telling him it’s time to go for doing what he had done. He had no will to live. But atleast Nick felt like he gave it a shot and knew he did all he could.

The End of Something Metaphorically speaking

The End of Something is a metaphorical piece of literature. The man is taking his girlfriend fishing down by the abandoned mill. The metaphor is he is bringing back the past from when they first fell in love when the mill was up and running to now when he has lost his love for her and the mill is closed down showing how their relationship is coming to an end.
“There’s our old ruin, Nick,” Marjorie said.

Nick, rowing, looked at the white stone in the green trees.

“There it is,” he said.

“Can you remember when it was a mill?” Marjorie asked.

“I can just remember,” Nick said.

Now they are fishing in the lake and Marjorie notices that the fish are not biting. the metaphor here is Marjorie wants to get married to Nick and Nick doesn’t like her anymore. Marjorie is the fisher and Nick is the fish He wants to take the bait but he knows that he will get reeled in if he takes the bait. He doesn’t want to take make a commitment.

“They aren’t striking,” he said.”No,” Marjorie said. She was intent on the rod all the time they trolled, even when she talked. She loved to fish. She loved to fish with Nick.

“They’re feeding,” Marjorie said.
“But they won’t strike,” Nick said.

Later in the literature Nick and Marjorie are eating on the side of the lake and Marjorie is still fishing for him to grab the bait but she starts to realize that the fish wont bite and it is getting hopeless.

“Isn’t love any fun?” Marjorie said.

“No,” Nick said. Marjorie stood up. Nick sat there, his head in his hands.

“I’m going to take the boat,” Marjorie called to him. “You can walk back around the point.”

“All right,” Nick said. “I’ll push the boat off for you.”

Marjorie is getting the bad news from Nick that they are breaking up and her wish will never come true. So the metaphor in this is she finally realizes it is hopeless and she takes her pole out of the water and takes the boat home without her man “fish”.
The End of Something Metaphorically speaking

Whats the difference? Four Quartets and Love Song plus the other man in waste land

“the fire and the rose are one”

The two poems in my mind are one in their own. Prufrock commits suicide at the end but no worries to make and end is to make a beginning. Prufrock is still talking to the man about how ending his life begins a new one, a better one then one he had before where he did not fit in. So there still is perspectivism in four quartets just not nearly as much as the love song. an example of this is “See, they return, and we go with them.” What the man is stating is to have a beginning you have to have an end and vice versa.

The Waste Land shows a great deal of perspectivism. The speaker in this peom is talking to a man about the past and maybe about his sons death, and the man is the killer.

‘My nerves are bad to-night. Yes, bad. Stay with me.
‘Speak to me. Why do you never speak? Speak.
‘What are you thinking of? What thinking? What?
‘I never know what you are thinking. Think.’
You know nothing? Do you see nothing? Do you remember
‘Nothing?’
I remember
Those are pearls that were his eyes. 125
‘Are you alive, or not? Is there nothing in your head?’

The evidence above shows there is another man in the reading and he is speaking but there are no words written in the literature. Then there shows some evidence of maybe he is talking to his dead son with the are you alive quote. This man is in a depressed state, hence the literature is called the waste land.

The Hollow “Men”

The Hollow men shows great signs of perspectivism. Men is stated clearly as Men and not Man in the liturature. Almost like it’s a back when America had monopolies, a single man could make many mens voices sound like a mouse. But even though their voices are small and unheard but together they are heard. They are not loud but if you listen you may hear them.

We are the hollow men
We are the stuffed men
Leaning together
Headpiece filled with straw. Alas!
Our dried voices, when
We whisper together
Are quiet and meaningless
As wind in dry grass
Or rats’ feet over broken glass
In our dry cellar

The men want to be heard, their voices are hurt, but together maybe they will be heard. All they want is to be remembered for something better them

Remember us–if at all–not as lost
Violent souls, but only
As the hollow men
The stuffed men.

The men know they are going to die.
http://bosp.kcc.hawaii.edu/Spectrums/Spectrum2000/literary.html

Perspectivism in The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock by T.S. Eliot

J. Alfred Prufrock and perspectivism are linked significantly. Prufrock is trying to explain his meaning by taking you, the reader, with him to this party so he can show you how he feels and how people see him.

LET us go then, you and I,
When the evening is spread out against the sky
Like a patient etherised upon a table;
Let us go, through certain half-deserted streets,
The muttering retreats 5
Of restless nights in one-night cheap hotels
And sawdust restaurants with oyster-shells:
Streets that follow like a tedious argument
Of insidious intent
To lead you to an overwhelming question … 10
Oh, do not ask, “What is it?”
Let us go and make our visit.

Link to Love song of J. Alfred Prufrock

Even though there are not literally two people speaking in this poem you can sense the man is talking to someone. Like in the first line “LET us go then, you and I”. Prufrock is having a conversation with the reader and is answering the questions us, the reader would ask about during this poem.

Oh, do not ask, “What is it?”
Let us go and make our visit

This is clear that there was a silent narrator in this poem to show the perspectivism