associate accumulating wealth, power, and status as the American dream. In Faulkner's and Fitzgerald's stories this is not the case. Their stories state that the dream is not about accumulating wealth, power, and status as this does not make a person happy, but that creating close relationships and spending time with loved ones creates true happiness and that is what the American Dream truly is. Faulkner's story "A Rose for Emily" centers around the character of Emily Grierson. Emily Grierson was the
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either a happy or an unhappy life. ii. How can we claim that it is by the will that human beings achieve a happy life, when so many are unhappy despite the fact that everyone wills to be happy? iii. It is one thing to will rightly or wrongly, and quiet another to deserve something because of a good or bad will iv. Just because you will to be happy does not mean you are going to be happy v. No surprise that unhappy human beings do not attain the happy life that
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of the West All of us grow up with expectations. Go to school, get good marks, get a well-paying job, find a nice husband, have children and be happy. Are we fooled into thinking this is the lifestyle we’re all supposed to live? And will this even make us happy? In the short story The Decline of the West by Hanif Kureishi, the reader is introduced to a man who grew up with the exact same expectations forced upon him. After losing his job he realizes how unhappy he is, even though he followed every
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happiness? Yea it does but not for too long. Happiness can’t be gotten from material things rather it is gotten from the decisions we make in life. Happiness is all about choice and determination because you can make yourself happy. A man who chooses to be happy, and a man who is determined i.e. keeps telling himself that, no matter what happens
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we see campaigns depicting happy family a man and woman and the family in a happy set up for me this is a lesson for others to see and feel secured. Traditionally here in South Africa a man has to go to the mountains to be actually circumcised and to be a real man you have to go through that process and elders show you the ways to stay happy with the right way to treat your woman and children. The woman even has to go to the community elders taught ways in which a man is taken care of. Religiously
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attitude? Attitude is the very gist of an individual's way of thinking; it is an individual's ideals, his concepts of right and wrong, and all his/her aspirations. In a nutshell, attitude can be defined as the totality of the individual himself. Man is, I'd say, what his attitude is. His thinking, his views, his likes, and dislikes are all enveloped in the single word i.e. 'attitude'. The next point for us to understand that we discover how these attitudes grow in an individual, are they inborn
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While reading Cyrano de Bergerac, I always wondered whether or not Cyrano had a happy life. Because Cyrano’s happiness and self-worth is the focus of this essay. Was he happy? I can’t say for sure. If I look at his life, it seems that he never really got Roxane because he always sacrificed his happiness for the others and he also felt his ugliness was the cause of not getting Roxane’s hand. I really feel he did not care about his happiness. In that, he did not sacrifice it, as he split and divided
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“Death of a Salesman” by Arthur Millar is a play about a man (Willy Lowman) who is so obsessed with success that he has deluded himself with the fact that he is himself successful. Throughout the play arguments occur between Biff (Willy’s son) and Willy, the contrast between these two characters reveals the main concern which is Willy’s obsession with success. Throughout the play there are many flashbacks to when Biff and Happy (Willy’s other son), in these we see that Biff is very much his father’s
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Bill and Jerry. Bill is the point of view where the short story is told from. Bill is a married man, but he is not satisfied in his married. He is not happy with the amount of sex, he is having with his wife. It is showed on page 224 line 2 to 8. Where he is talking with Jerry about having sex with one of the two girls. This do not only show that he not is happy in his relationship, but also that he is a man driven by his desire.
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We as a species don’t enjoy pain. Humans want to be happy so badly in some cases that they will not accept their current situation and refuse to believe that they are what they are. We do this because we are afraid of death and by extension afraid of wasting our lives in the process of living them. Ethan Frome is a man who fell out of his own adventure but not his own story. His life turned into something he did not want to believe so
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