Francis Aloysius Phelan In William Kennedy's Ironweed

The novel follows Tristram St Lawrence, an earl who has not been back in Ireland for some time due to missing his own mum’s death due to being so intoxicated. He has since become sober and is living with the help of a mysterious man called M. Deauville who gives him money. He accidentally lands back in Ireland due to his flight crashing and meets an old school bully who has become big in the construction business and puts forward an idea that Deauville has an interest in and makes Tristram go back to his father and watch over the project. As the novel goes on it is discovered that the property market has been corrupted and billions of euro borrowed had been used to buy a huge amount of land. The controllers of all of these are corrupted politicians who look to bring in as much money as they can without caring about what they are doing to the economy.

The forced manhood results in an immediate loss of innocence. Considering innocence is usually associated with youth, his struggle with aging renders him feeling hopeless at times as if he has no one to turn to apart from Ultima, the curandera. For example, after Antonio witnesses the death of Lupito and runs home, Anaya states, “I felt dizzy, and very weary and six,. I ran the last of the way and slipped quietly into the house. I groped for the stair railing in the dark and felt a warm hand take mine.

His uncle went as far as degrading him, “How is it that the clouds still hang on you?”(I.ii.9). His uncle degrades him basically telling Hamlet to man up and get over it. Obviously, Hamlet didn’t take this well and just puts an even heavier weight on his shoulders making him sink into his depression faster. His mother remarried his uncle in only a month’s time. Not many take a parent remarrying well especially to their own uncle.

To be completely gullible and to not form their own opinions is what The Network does to its citizens. “Free-Vee is the stuff of dreams, the bread of life. Scag is twelve oldbucks a bag, Frisco Push goes for twenty a tab, but the Free-Vee will freak you for nothing. Farther along, on the other side of the Canal, the dream machine runs twenty-four hours a day… but it runs on New Dollars, and only employed people have any” (King 8). Most citizens in The Running Man do not realize this about The Network, they are so conditioned that they believe that everything The Network says, is true.

As the book starts Holden describes his childhood and how he has been kicked out of several school and once more again from his currently school, giving a sense of irresponsibility and no care in the world. Holden later on mentioned slowly the loss of his brother due to leukemia and how he reacted outrageously by breaking the windows of his garage home. As a reader one would view that behavior as abnormal, but Peter Shaw descried it as a normal behavior for a fictional character in the 1950s and by mentioning that Holden, “is presenting in a somewhat different manner than are the sentimentalized young people in other novels if his period” (par. 3), admitting that Holden was somewhat of an outcast of a character even for its time he is still considered normal. Shaw also challenged the reader’s view of Holden by emphasizing that Holden is not a real person, but a fiction character developed in the 1950s and in fact a mad psychological character is normal and made the reading rather more interesting and acceptable during that time.

Ultimately the narrator begins drinking too much and becomes an alcoholic. The alcoholism changes his personality and he becomes increasingly violent towards his wife and all their pets. But he remains non-violent towards his favorite cat, Pluto. Eventually the narrator’s inner rage causes him to poke out one of Pluto’s eyes because he felt ignored. After that incident, the cat avoids him, but this also drives him mad, so he ties a rope

With the London Ultimatum the government was gouged to the point of no recovery. The value of a single mark is now equal to 4 trillion American dollars. Money is so worthless that people use it as wallpaper and the people that can’t afford housing burn it to keep warm during this harsh winter. I’m sorry to say that our uncle, Eugene, has finally passed away from the mustard gas that he inhaled during battle. He had been recovering pretty well but he fell ill again and never recovered.

In the novel The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway conveys the idea that just because someone has short spurts of fun does not mean that they have a stable or continuing feeling of happiness or contentment. In Hemingway’s novel, the characters have a jolly time drinking wine and watching bull fights, but no one ever truly feels happiness or even satisfaction over a period of time. Whether it be partying in Paris, fishing, or watching bull fights in Spain, the characters (especially Jake) are entertained for most of the novel, but every character shows a sense of vulnerability and sorrow. The novel displays that activities that distract one from their sadness cannot and does not translate to their happiness. The novel’s main events begin in

Although it is true that Iago planted the seeds to Othello’s downfall, what this claim overlooks is that, just as before, Iago’s plan would have never worked if it weren’t for Othello’s tragic flaw of trusting people too much. This is why both Cassio and Othello are to blame for their own downfalls. To start with, Cassio’s weakness is that he is a lightweight when it comes to drinking alcohol. Just before the celebration party of the destruction of the Ottoman naval fleet, Cassio states that he already had one glass of wine to drink. Because of this one glass, Cassio is already feeling tipsy.

The forced manhood results in an immediate loss of innocence. Considering innocence is usually associated with youth, his struggle with aging renders him feeling hopeless at times as if he has no one to turn to apart from Ultima, the curandera. For example, after Antonio witnesses the death of Lupito and runs home, Anaya states, “I felt dizzy, and very weary and sick. I ran the last of the way and slipped quietly into the house. I groped for the stair railing in the dark and felt a warm hand take mine.