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¶ … Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway, and a passage in "A Perfect Day for Bananafish," by J.D. Salinger.
IMITATE SHORT PASSAGES BY HEMINGWAY AND SALINGER
Hemingway's short, staccato style and "macho" man image has often been parodied, reviewed, and dissected. "The Sun Also Rises" has been called one of his best books. This passage parodies Hemingway's macho style, and outlook on women as the weaker sex.
Paris again, and another broad in another taxi. How do I get myself into these things? Last thing I knew, I was in Pamplona, running with the big dogs. Now, I'm in a taxi with Brett, who's married to somebody else, and flirting with me. She's not half bad looking for a dame. Maybe I should just kiss her. Let her know I'm interested. What the hell. "Don't touch me, please don't touch me," she says to me, and I'm a pretty damned good kisser. What's the matter with this dame? This is Paris for chrissake, the city of romance. She shimmied over into the corner of the seat, looking vulnerable, so I tried to kiss her again, and she cold cocked me, the little *****.
Salinger's writing is dark and depressing, and seems to ramble on and on, making the reader wait for the punch line. His sentences are also short and staccato like Hemingway's, but they seem more random, just as the thought process throughout the story does.
Sex is Fun-or Hell." I could have written that, she thought as she waited for the phone. But then, I could write anything I wanted to, except for those lousy editors. I wait for the phone to ring, but it never rings. I think I'll paint my toenails. Red. That's a good color. Like the editor's red pencil marks, all over my perfect manuscript. What a jerk. I hate the smell of nail polish. Maybe I'll take a bath. But my makeup would run. I should run for office, then I'd get rid of that lousy editor. The editor lay dying at his desk, his blood the color of my nail polish. No wonder I like red.
For Faulkner, meaning and the reality of each person is "mutable." In this regard, the novel deals with the themes of identity and existence and the intentions and motivations behind each individual's reasons for undertaking the journey to bury Addie from many different points-of-view. The images of death and dying tend to add to this search for meaning and identity; for example, Addie's slowly decaying corpse. The death of the
William Faulkner's As I Lay Dying The classic 1930 Novel by William Faulkner, “As I Lay Dying” is a demonstration of the evolution of modernist literature that incorporates an in-depth psychological aspect. The psychoanalytic novel displays the intricacy of the human psyche by attempting to unravel what lays in human minds. The novel presents an emotionally, psychologically and physically distressing journey of a family characteristic by selfishness as they embark. The
Dying William Faulkner's novel As I Lay Dying tells the story of a family living in Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi. The matriarch of this family, Addie Bundren, is approaching death and her family prepares for this event through various means based upon the personality of that character and the particulars of their relationship with this family member. Upon her death, Addie asks her son to allow her to be buried in
Dying is a unique novel in that there is no discernable protagonist. In lieu of the protagonist is a corpse, Addie, who is dead for most of the book. The novel is written in the first person, from the perspective of Addie and her family, although the perspective shifts for most of the chapters between Addie's self-interested family members with Addie herself only contributing one chapter. Addie's dying wish
In the opening paragraph, his detailed physical description of Jewel and him walking on the path exhibits what we soon see is a strong faith that language makes memory, perception, and action real. (Lockyer 74) She also notes that Darl is the character who speaks the most in the novel, thus showing his adherence to the value of language in his actions as well as his words. In doing so,
1). For Lester, the novel is a novel of migration and the ambiguous benefits of Southern culture and traditions: when Addie demands that her family lay her body "to rest forty miles away, in Jefferson, where her relatives are buried" her "request places a burden on her family, who subsist on limited means as small farmers and occasional wage laborers in rural Northern Mississippi in the late 1920s" (Lester 2005,