In both writings, Tillie Olsen's I Stand Here Ironing and Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman, the plots center around the problems of a child. In "I Stand Here Ironing", Emily is a young girl affected negatively by her mother's lack of care and the time of cold war. Like Emily, in "Death of a Salesman", Biff is a young boy who is not well prepared to stand on his own feet in the life because of his father's inadequate advisories. .
In Death of a Salesman, Biff is a young, pessimist and a lazy person. Although he does not study for state's math exam and fails it, he does not attend to summer school. On the other hand, when he gets older, he describes himself as a nothing. "I"m one dollar an hour, Willy! I tried seven states and couldn't raise it. A buck an hour!" (1363). These words show how Biff is hopeless about his life.
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Like, Biff, in I Stand Here Ironing, Emily is a young, pessimist and a little lazy girl. She always tries to run away from her responsibilities. For instance, when her mother asks her to study on her midterms she says "in a couple of years when we"ll all be atom-dead they won't madder a bit." (217) While Emily has the advantage of a contemporary upbringing, she is still vulnerable and fearful as an adult, as she was being a lonely, sick and unpopular child. "The doorbell sometimes rang for her, but no one seemed to come and play in house or be a best friend" (215). She, like her mother, seems to have a passive, almost pessimistic outlook on life and the future. .
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The difference between two characters is the cause which makes them hopeless. The reason of Biff"'s situation is his father. Willy, Biff's father, spends his time with Biff, like his friend, however his advisories are very harmful. Biff learns from his father that to be well liked and attractive are the most important ingredients for success. Biff even echoes small bits of Willy's view of life when he says that Bernard "is liked but not well liked.
Many people lose hope and therefore lose their dreams. If they would hold on to hope, their dreams might come to pass. Sometime hope is all you have. ... She had all odds against her; an abusive stepfather, lost children, lack of physical beauty, little education, and a loveless marriage in which she was forced into. ... Celies hopes and dreams were finally fulfilled. ...
"You are all a lost Generation" "You are all a lost generation" Gertrude Stein. ... The faith that had once given them hope and helped them before had been destroyed by the countless number of deaths. ... They where abandoned without the ability to identify themselves in a world where war had crushed their hopes, dreams and beliefs. ... The Lost Generation was made up of exiles that had been raised in a world of values such as that of love, romanticism, optimism, prosperity and hope. ... For most of the Lost Generation, love, hope and god were unknown to them after WWI. ...
Hope vs. ... Consequently, he releases any kind of hope that he once had: "So farewell hope, and with hope farewell fear, Farewell remorse! All good to me is lost; Evil, be thou my good- (IV, 108-110). ... This moment is often labeled as the fall of mankind in which all is thought to be lost. ... While Adam and Eve have lost their utopian paradise they will journey out into a new world with hopes to save mankind from their sins. ...
One poem about hope called "Hope Is the Thing with Feathers" is written by Emily Dickenson. The other one called "Hope" is written by Lisel Mueller. ... In the second stanza hope exists even in the storm. The author feels that hope can easily be lost because hope does not depend on the circumstance, it depends on the person inside. ... Hope exists in everything according to these poems. ...
As the students were walking through, something beautiful caught Jillian's eye, the Hope Diamond. ... After telling all her friends about the Hope Diamond, she went on the Internet and looked it up. ... She found out that the Hope Diamond had a great deal of historical significance and has had a long history, has been resized reshaped, stolen and lost. The beginning of the Hope Diamond's discovery was hundreds of years ago in a mine. ...
What is the real meaning of hope? ... To have hope in something or a situation is a good feeling it lets us look forward to the next day, hope lets us know that there is something good to come. ... Hope would be that surprise. ... Hope can get lost and become an unsafe friend, this little four letter word that meant so much is now nothing. ... You have to learn to work with hope it may take time for things to work out the way that it is meant to but in the end hope is what gets people through. ...
In the novel A Lost Lady by Willa Cather, Neil at first has a high regard for Mrs. ... Neil did not feel the same way that he used to towards her after this day, "he had lost one of the most beautiful things in his life This day saw the end of that admiration and loyalty that had been like a bloom on his existence" (71-72). ... Forrester will not uphold the pride of the old traditions and hopes she will continue being a lady. ... Neil hopes that she is going to keep her old fashion, ladylike image without her wealth, but he is mistaken. ... In the novel A Lost Lady by Willa Cather, Neil at fir...
The nature of depression is about giving up hope. ... We need to realize that there is hope even for that who feels that all hope is lost. ... The loss of hope is apparent. ... This is what he felt as he lost his family, his health and all his possessions. ... People may give up because they think life is pointless without what they have lost or the things they can not obtain. ...
They are only left to wonder, hope and dream. ... They continue to dream and hope. ... The Lost Corner is just a word that is use for comfort. ... She drives to Norfolk and actually thinks she had found the Lost Corner. ... All lies there are your hopes and dreams....
