This story is full of dead letters

The office in this story sounds awesome, the boss does not care about his employees habits, everyone gets a cool nickname and if one is really lucky they can sleep at the office with a blank wall to look at! Starting with the initial employees it seems to me that the narrator doesn't rally keep them for their production value, rather he's fascinated by their human nature not to work (or how they work). I think this fascination trickles into the relationship between the narrator and Bartleby. For example he can't fire the man even though he never does anything! He even goes as far as to invite the man to live at his house, and I don't think this was out of concern for Bartleby but rather it was the Narrator's unwilling-ness to stop watching him.
Batleby also is interesting and reminds me of a couple of people I know with depression (when they're at their worst stages). Perhaps he should of stayed with the dead letters after he got fired. Maybe then e would of moved on instead of feeling so rejected.

Dee Dee Get out of my laboratory!

Let's take a moment to focus on Dee shall we (as if you have any choice in the mater). Dee leaves for college, glad that their house is burned down so she doesn't have to live in it (at the expense of her sister), claiming that her family's life was not good enough for her. Then she comes back in this LOUD dress trying to claim that hertiage that she had sworn off. She even went as far as trying to take the quilts she had sworn away a few years ago. Dee is a flat and annoying character, and is also a foil to Maggie in every way. While Dee is loud persistent and always gets what she wants, Maggie hides and goes with the flow. The reader takes a certain appeal to Maggie as Dee (or that weird 2nd name she took) flaunts herself around and tries to get what she wants. Maggie was hurt in many ways by Dee and I was so glad her mother gave her the quilts instead of Dee. The mother also takes another step out of her character as she tells Dee no to the quilts, something that I think would become a regular thing if the mom was a real person. Once the mother starts to stop Dee, Dee is left without a leg to stand on.

Perhaps Hunting wasn't such a great idea

This story s filled with situational irony. First off when Tub shot Kenny at the beginning I was in full support of Tub, and actually angry at Frank who was just going on and on about how Tub had "really done it this time". First off Kenny had threatened Tub and 2nd Kenny had been mean to Tub the whole time calling him fat and whiny. The situational irony did get me though as it turns out that Kenny was suppose to shoot the dog. Then by the end of the story I felt kind of bad as Tub and Frank are having a little heart to heart and Kenny is slowing getting worse from a gun shot wound. What I don't understand is that Tub tells Frank that he will be a good friend through and through, but her leaves Kenny in the back with a gun shot wound. I mean what the heck? I felt sorry for Tub up until that point due to all of the teasing he got, but that action really showed his true character. Nect tim TUb should just stay in the bathroom and eat his Oreos.

I Made it Thorugh the Wilderness- these last 3 stories

Due to the fact that we have to write a 4th blog post when we only have 3 stories to read I decided to wrtie about the sexual content in all of these stories (and their purpose). Although English class actually has a lot of dirty material (cough Sidartha cough) these stories still took me back. In "How I Met My Husband" Edie's entire life is changed by a few steamy moments in a tent. If it weren't for that scene of the story, Edie would of never met her husband. In "Interpreter of Maladies" it is the love life of Mrs. Dias that causes the climax in the story, and the strange love life of Kapasi that causes chracter devolpment. Finally in "A Rose for Emily" the final scene in the bedroom, the sexual connotations just makes Emily creepy. Case Closed

Um how do you say "my son is being beaten by a monkey with a stick" in Indian?

One random note before this blog runs like the wind I would like to point out page 151 when Mr. Kapasi notices that one of the boys "was slightly paler than the other children" (when he's shifting gears in the car), I didn't catch this little line the first time through but I found it very amusing. Okay so this entire story is centered on the lonely Mr. Kapasi, who is so starved fro love that he lusts after Mrs. Dias, who really just gives him an hour of her life where she would of been bored anyways. I mean I've spent many small-talk converstations asking quesstions just so that there isn't any awkward pauses. I honestly just felt sad for Kapasi throughout this story, and am almost glad Mrs. Dias loses his address just so he can move on with his life.

How I Meet Your Mother...erm Husband

First and foremost, if you are not aware of the tv show "How I Meet Your Mother" I would strongly suggest it as it is my favorite show. The twisted ending on this story (caused by the situational irony that caused the reader to think that Edie was going to marry Chris) seems to be the central technique used in this story. This story is full of quirky characters from Mrs. Bird (who was not invited to dinner) to Alice the fiance (who was not invited to the wedding). Alice really served as a catalyst for the Chris and Edie relationship. She causes him to run away by plane and to have "intimate" relations with girls in tents. I doubt Chris would of continued his advances on Edie if he hadn't of felt so pressured by Alice. But one doesn't know about Alice or the tent party until it happens (more situational irony). Clever I must say. The one part of the story that really tickles me pink is the point when Edie is caught with the dress on, how she just progresses from trying the dress on to drinking ginger ale in the kitchen.

Because every rose has it's thorn- A Rose for Emily

This story's beginning mirrored Metamorphosis (and I'm sure all of my classmates want to revisit that wonderful story.) Similar to Gregor's story, this short story begins with Emily dying. It isn't really a big deal, in fact her town can't wait to stick their noses into Emily's stuff. She's just dead, it says that she's sick but that's the deepest this story goes in explaining her death. Also this story is told in parts with each different section going in chronological order with the exception of the first one about her death. The questions at the end of this story suggest a surprise ending, but my fellow readers the ending wasn't a surprise at all. The women locks herself in her house after her father dies, showing a distressed mental status. Then there's a random terrible smell, and Emily buys poison, then to top off the cake Homer goes missing. HELLO she killed him, end of story. Even the fact that the body was creepily visited by Emily wasn't a surprise. Emily was messed up and no amount of lime would erase that.