Failed but Saved
Wednesday, May 25, 2011
Literature
Failing expectations is found through out literature from long ago to today. Two examples are Dimmesdale from the "Scarlet Letter" and Siddhartha from "Siddhartha". Dimmesdale, as I mentioned in the side bar, failed at being a "pure priest" and fathering a child. He goes farther from expectations when he lets Hester take care of Pearl by herself. Then in "Siddhartha" Siddhartha failed his father's expectations and did not follow his fathers path of a priest. Siddhartha went his own way to find his "peace". What other literature examples do you know of?
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One example is in the Series of Unfortunate Events, where Count Olaf fails his own expectations when he is unable to capture the children. It can also be argued that John Proctor in The Crucible failed expectations because he was expected to stay committed to his wife, but instead he ended up cheating on her.
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In F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby", Myrtle's husband fails to meet her expectations of him as a spouse. She expects him to make bank and spoil her with presents and luxuries, but he is simply unable earn the income to do so. In turn, the husband sees himself as a failure for not being able to please his wife.
ReplyDeleteIn J.D. Salinger's "The Catcher in the Rye" Holden fails to meet the expectations of his parents. He flunks out of school and goes off to New York City. He always talks about how much of a success his siblings were at being smart and likable, while he is off getting drunk and making bad decisions in New York. He also does not want his parents to know about school or what he is doing since he fails to meet their expectations.
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