Ethan Frome Tone Analysis

I just felt so mean I couldn’t sleep.” which most likely means that she was so mad at something that she could not sleep. All of her thoughts and actions are like the biting winter in Starkfield. After Harmon Gow said, “Guess he’s been in Starkfield too many winters. Most of the smart ones get away.” and the engineer asked why, Harmon replied, “Somebody had to stay and care for the folks. There warn’t ever anybody but Ethan.

Do you ever tire? God, look at you, iron is what you are made of. Here we all are, half dead with weariness falling asleep over the cars and you say no landing-no firm island earth where we could make a quiet supper”(pg;839 L162-168). Many storms came and went so instead of wanting to stay there for two days, they stayed for two months. Eurylochus got what he deserved because Odysseus told them to swear they wouldn 't eat the cattle and they all told Odysseus they wouldn 't.

Her house was away from everything, everyone and even when her husband was home it was like she was still alone. Mrs. Hale knew that they didn’t have children and she knew how Mr. Wright was towards his wife, but she didn’t go visit due to the fact she knew how unhappy the home was. The women begin to understand why Mrs. Wright murdered her husband. On page 595, Mrs. Hale says “We live so close together and we live far apart. We all go through the same things- it’s all just a different kind of the same thing”.

“Josef, you never venture out into those woods, ever!” Those were the words I had heard numerous times over the past few days, ever since I had gained the knowledge that my mom and I live in the backyard of the infamous vampire Count Dracula. The problem is that I, without a doubt, want to meet him. My mother, Maria, a loving, but protecting mom, seems to have a problem with that, but I have no clue why. “Josef, time to eat!” As I sat down at the old, wooden dinner table, I started to think long and hard. Between bites of porridge, I asked my mother- “Mom, why can’t……..

The theme of grief is shown throughout the poem Morning in the Burned House , which is set in post-apocalyptic times. Margaret Atwood visits the themes grief and loss of innocence in her poem. The poem starts off "In the burned house I am eating breakfast. You understand: there is no house, there is no breakfast" Repetition is seen here using the word breakfast, as she is emphasising no one is around and there is no routine as the lady is out of place and is confused. With the first couple of lines the poet is telling us that she is a liar.

Charlotte Bronte, author of Jane Eyre, alludes a young orphan girl who becomes involved in the government as an adult. Jane feels she does not have any say in the house of Bessie, they would shun her and she was not able to say a word. The author Bronte creates many allusions that foreshadows the story of Jane, Throughout the story Bronte utilizes descriptive details to foreshadow the story. Imagery that is seen in this novel is when Jane was wandering off outside since she finished having her dinner. "the cold winter wind had brought with it clouds so somber and a rain so penetrating, that the further outdoor exercise was now out of the question."

“On every side it sat like a lid on the mountains and made of the great valley a closed pot.” Since Elisa lives in the valley, it is as if she is also confined in a closed pot. As a woman living during these times, Elisa did not go far from home, and she could not see beyond the valley because of the fog. In the story, it is described as being cut off from the rest of the world when Steinback writes, “The high gray-flannel fog of winter closed off the Salinas Valley from the sky and from all the rest of the world.” The description of the valley paints a picture for the reader of her surroundings and helps them understand part of her loneliness. In addition, the two other character Elisa interacts with are her husband Henry and the tinker. Most of her conversations with her husband are dull and her lack of confidence becomes apparent.

The moment Goodman Brown decided to go to the Forest, the embodiment of all evil and forbidden practices, according to the Puritanical codes of morality and obedience to the church and its leadership. His determination to start his journey by sun setting and his wife 's unsuccessful effort to persuade him not to leave her was the trigger for all the suffering and pain thatGoodman Brown experiences.Faith, in return, stresses the point that a lone woman may have bad dream"pr 'y thee, put off your journey until sunrise, and sleep in your own bed to-night. A lone woman is troubled with such dreams and such thoughts, that she 's afeard of herself, sometimes. Pray, tarry with me this night, dear husband, of all nights in the year!"

Most people do not even care about the partition going in Pakistan and India, so he feels like an outsider because it appears as though he and Lilia’s parents are the only ones that care. He also wonders if he will ever see his family again, or if they are even alive because of the war. “...and hopes of ascertaining the life or death of his family” (Lahiri 20). Throughout the story, it is mentioned that Mr. Pirzada deeply worries about his family. At the end, he does find out that they were hiding in the woods during the war.

Steinbeck portrays the theme of loneliness and isolation effectively through key fictional characters and a number of underlying themes. The setting for the story is “Soledad” which is Spanish for loneliness; this gives readers connotations of a depressing and remote environment in which the itinerant farmers live. There is mention of the men going “into town” and Curley going to a doctor when his hand is smashed but there is no socialisation with anyone from outside of the ranch. All of the workers are nomadic and solitary, the man who used George’s bed before him “just quit, the way a guy will...just wanted to move.” This suggests that not many characters are settled. The men on the ranch are all passing through

Another day was so much like the one before, and the many before that. He walked the house and grounds, slowly, letting time pass as it must. Alone, present but not present, for can one truly be there if no one knows of it? Like the saying he’d heard more than once over the unmeasured time of his existence: If a tree falls in the forest but no one is there to hear it, does it make a sound? He ambled through the back yard, pausing under the tree from which he’d been hanged, cursing his tormentors, vowing to haunt them for all time.

There will come soft rains is a shorty story about the future people and there non-existence. The only house left after an apocalypse is personified to be a working, talking human. This house stands alone talking to no one, cooking breakfast for no one, and reading to no one. Personification was used to show the sadness and loss of human interaction by revealing the last death on earth. Bradbury also uses figurative language to show a great deal of loss and sadness, “At eight thirty the eggs shriveled and the toast was like stone”(Bradbury 1).