For the time-being he has both and is content in the monotony of going to work everyday and returning home to his family each night. ... Even though "he was a good client-(957) and had tried to commit suicide only a week earlier the young waiter's only concern is to go home early for a change as he selfishly says, "He'll stay all night...He should have killed himself last week-(958). ... After closing the elder waiter avoids returning to the solitude of his home and in the darkness of the night he succumbs to the thoughts of despair and hopelessness that only surface in the absenc...

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He cannot stand all night to watch the snow pile up in the woods. ... Earlier in the poem, supporting the gloominess of this night in conjunction with possible event of suicide, it also states how it is "The darkest evening of the year" (line 8). ... He is saying that he has an obligation to his work that night, possibly his loved ones and there is a long time ahead of him until he dies. ...

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In the final stanza, death's chill is described with great effect by Dickinson; "everyone pays attention when death comes (the landscape listens), and its passing is just like the passing of day into night" (line 13). ...

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"We must stand together" uses rhetorical questions such as "how can you fall asleep at night when something's clearly wrong" to show that there is something that is wrong with the and it needs to be addressed so that we can move society forward and not have it hindered by the poisons of a materialistic lifestyle like we are now. ...

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On the other hand, sleep has also been a means of escape and of repairing her tattered emotions, like when Edna met Robert after returning from Mexico he seemed to be quite formal in his behavior and that night before sleeping "she writhed with a jealous pang wondered when he would come back". ...

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"A Little Cloud" connotatively expresses in itself an effeminacy and fragility that little Chandler's personality holds. The precision and care of his appearance is a reaction to needing to be in social order. This makes up for his ineffectuality by customizing what he can control. The common practices of clothing and manner are reachable endeavors for a man who does not have what he wants, nor is whom he likes. Chandler's inability to be the personification of men like Gallaher, an ideal archetype that Chandler has a need to feel in close and personal interaction with, becomes mani...

• Word Count: 3141
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