Friday, April 29, 2011

Arsenic and Old Lace.

1.Define:  irony.



2.List and briefly discuss as many examples if irony that you can find and/or remember in the movie. 

a.) The title has Irony written all over it. Arsenic is a poision commaly used to kill rats and some rodents and wood persevatives(http://ezinearticles.com/?Arsenic,-the-Poisoning-of-a-Nation&id=80641). Where as lace is soft and pretty. It reminds me of a wedding dress. However, not the case in the movie.

b.) Mortimer. He is just ironic period! I found it odd at first as to why he was speaking so low ant the marriage lisencures office. Then later, Elane's father holds up the book he wrote about how marriage was a fraud.

c.) The police are ironies. They have no clue Jonathan is wanted and he is standing right in front of them.

d.) The dead body in the window seat, while the cops are there.

e.) "I got the two nicest aunts in the world"- funny how they kill people huh?.

f.)The who done it play "murder well out", as cary grant is saying "when the currten goes up the first thing you see is a dead body". He is opening the window seat. hehe.

g.)How the aunts are affraid of horror movies yet the y kill people.

h.) how calm the aunts are as they are telling Mortimer about how they killed the man in the window seat.

i.) It is really funny how the aunts live next to a cemitary but don't want to bury him there.

j.) When Elane calls and whistles the "where comes the bride" theme song, and Mortimer says to keep her shirt on, when he was wanting to do it in the first place.

k.) how every one keeps sitting on the  window seat.

Oedipus

1.Who wrote the play?
~Sophcoles
2. Briefly define the Oedipal Complex.
~A theory that states a boy is attracted to their mothers and resent their fathers.

3. What is the setting of the story, specifically, the where?
~The royal palace in  Thebes, Greece
4. As the play opens, what horrible thing is going on?
~the plague is going around.
5. Whose death must be avenged in order for the horrible thing from number 4 to end?
King Laius was murdered, he was the former king.
6. Who is Oedipus’ wife?
~Oedipus' birth morther, Jocasta.
7. Who is Oedipus’ mother?
~His wife, Jocasta.
8. Who is Oedipus’ father?
~Former King that was murdered, Laius was his birth father. His adoptive father is Polybus, th king of Corinth
9. Who killed the King of Thebes (the answer for #5)?
~Oedipus his son.
10. What is Oedipus’ tragic flaw?
I believe he was intellegince.With his intellegince he solved the riddle of the Sphinx and became king. But when combined with his "blindness", it created his ultimate demise.

11. As you read through Oedipus, you'll note that sight/vision/seeing (including "second sight") is very
important to the overall story--in the literal as well as the metaphorical/symbolical aspect.  You don't have to do this in complete sentences if you don't want---v v v v v v v
12. Describe/discuss/explain/list how sight/vision/seeing/"second sight" is/are used in the play to advance the plot--to advance the story as a whole.  Include an explanation of why it's important as well as how it helps you (the real audience) understand (get) what others on the stage and in the play don't understand.
~Basically, Oedipus was blind to who he really was. Yes he could see, but he was unaware of who he really was and had become, secondary blindness. Tiresais is literally blind, but see's truth and most for what it truely is. Jocasta is secondary blind, because she doesn't realize that she is Oedipus's mother.When she finds out she commits suicide. When Oedipus finds out the truth he gauges out his eye making his literally blind and able to see like Tiresais.

13. As a play, there's a lot that can and can not be done on the stage.  Explain why you think some things within this play in particular are done on stage while others are done off stage.
~Graffics/effects were horrible back then. So if Oedipus were togauges his eyes out on stage it would not have looked realy. So it was spoken not acted.
14. Do you believe in fate?  Explain fully your answer.
Yes. I believe everything happens for a reason. For example, when my boyfriend was stopped at a red light when he first got his lisence, a drunk driver ran the light and hit him head on. This guy was well over the legal limit and under age. My boyfriend was okay, however the driver side of the car was completely messed. How he got out of that alive I can only ask Jesus why he was spared.But the drunk driver was arrested about a mile down the road after he flipped his car. Later my boyfriend found out the drunk driver had cause 3 other wrecks the same day. I belive it was fate that he got hit so the driver could serve his time. I am very thankful my boyfriend made it out alive, and that the other driver was charged with 4 counts of attempted man slaughter, underage drinking, and DWI.  

15. Explain how fate plays a role in Oedipus.
~Fate is a HUGE role in Oedipus life. He was not wanted by his mother and father so they sent him to die. Only, he didn't die. He came back and, unknowingly, killed his father and married his mother. If he wouldn't have pushed so hard to find out who murdered his father, he would not have gauged his eyes out.

16. Have you ever thought how ironic this play is? It's weird how the events come together and make everything happen the way it does. If things were to happen just a little bit different the story would be completely changed.
~Yes i do believe it would have changed a great deal. Esspecailly if Oedipus knew his father before he found out who killed him. If he would have listened to Tiresais and not persued the mureder he would still be able to literally see. So many things would have been changed. Then the who story would have not been so ironic or interesting to read.

Extra: Name either one of the other two plays in the Oedipus Trilogy—punctuation count
Oedipus at  Colonus, and Antigone

Friday, April 8, 2011

Poetry

When someone says poetry I automatically think Robert Frost. I  love how he makes just about every poem about nature and the importance of it. Also another one of my favorites is Shell Silverstein. I love his childish antics in all his poems. I love reading is book of poems "Where the Side Walk Ends" because it helps me unwind from a rough day. I have always LOVED poetry. I guess it's because my dad is a  "musicain". I have always been around music and rhythm and rhymes so it just is instict to read poems over novels.

"Song" C. Day Lewis page 707

Come, live with me and be my love,
And we will all the pleasures prove
Of peace and plenty, bed and board,
That chance employment may afford.
I’ll handle dainties on the docks
And thou shalt read of summer frocks:
At evening by the sour canals
We’ll hope to hear some madrigals.
Care on thy maiden brow shall put
A wreath of wrinkles, and thy foot
Be shod with pain: not silken dress
But toil shall tire thy loveliness.
Hunger shall make thy modest zone
And cheat fond death of all but bone—
If these delights thy mind may move,
Then live with me and be my love.




Well what do you know another sonnet. Ha! I adore this poem. I love how C. Day Lewis professes his love for his partner. I feel this is worthy of sharing because it makes girls think about "why modern guys don't act this way." I think it is adorable.

"Loveliest of Trees, the Cherry Now" A.E. Housman page 670

Loveliest of trees, the cherry now
Is hung with bloom along the bough,
And stands about the woodland ride
Wearing white for Eastertide.
Now, of my threescore years and ten,
Twenty will not come again,
And take from seventy springs a score,
It only leaves me fifty more.
And since to look at things in bloom
Fifty springs are little room,
About the woodlands I will go
To see the cherry hung with snow.

Apparently I am drawn to sonnets that have the Shakespearian rhyme scheme. I love how this poem flows and it comes easy to read. Housman talks about how he is 70 years old and how he will never be 20 again. He remembers the cherry trees covered in snow. I am not 100% sure if my take is correct but thats what i got from it.

"Down on the Farm" -Tim McGraw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DuWbkVsV7rM



Every Friday night there's a steady cloud of dust
That leads back to a field filled with pickup trucks
Got old Hank cranking way up loud
Got coolers in the back
Tailgates down
There's a big fire burnin' but don't be alarmed
It's just country boys and girls gettin' down on the farm

Ed's been on the tractor ain't seen Becky all week
Somebody said they seen 'em heading down to the creek
Farmer Johnson's daughters just pulled up in a jeep
Man he knows how to grow 'em if ya know what I mean
Old Dave's gettin' loud but he don't mean no harm
We're just country boys and girls gettin' down on the farm

You can have a lot of fun in a New York minute
But there's some things you can't do inside those city limits
Ain't no closing time
Ain't no cover charge
Just country boys and girls gettin' down on the farm

Well you can come as you are
There ain't no dress code
Just some rural route rules that you need to know
Don't mess with the bull
He can get real mean
Don't forget to shut the gate
Stay out of the beans
If it starts to rainin' will just head to the barn
We're country boys and girls gettin' down on the farm

You can have a lot of fun in a New York minute
But there's some things you can't do inside those city limits
Ain't no closing time
Ain't no cover charge
Just country boys and girls gettin' down on the farm
Ain't no closing time
Ain't no cover charge
Just country boys and girls gettin' down on the farm

Oh let's get down y'all
Stay out of that hay





I love Tim Mcgraw. I love this song. I was really little when I first heard it. I love songs that are up beat and fun. When I go to  "parties" this is song pretty much is the theme songs of them. I love country music so that probably helps tolerate this song.:)

A common poem but I love it

http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-road-not-taken/
"The Road Not Taken"
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim
Because it was grassy and wanted wear,
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I marked the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I,
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference








This is probably one of Robert Frost more well known poems. The first time I read this poem I was in eighth grade in my English teacher's class room. It made me realize that we, as people, need to take chances and "take the road less traveled". Otherwise we will always have that thought in the back of our minds "what if". That question will be the death of some people.

Sonnet

http://www.poemtree.com/poems/GoodHours.htm


"Good Hours" by Robert Frost

I had for my winter evening walk—
No one at all with whom to talk,
But I had the cottages in a row
Up to their shining eyes in snow.

And I thought I had the folk within:
I had the sound of a violin;
I had a glimpse through curtain laces
Of youthful forms and youthful faces.

I had such company outward bound.
I went till there were no cottages found.
I turned and repented, but coming back
I saw no window but that was black.

Over the snow my creaking feet
Disturbed the slumbering village street
Like profanation, by your leave,
At ten o'clock of a winter eve.

The importance of this poem to me is what i took from it. It made me realize that I don't need a person to talk to. Nature speaks to everyone, metaphorically of course. I love how I now realize that buildings, trees, even the weather, all tell stories.  This poem is worth sharing because it teaches us that even in our hectic lives as human beings we can still find the time for quiet and peace.

Monday, April 4, 2011

"The Charge of the Light Brigade" by Alfred Loyd Tennyson

Half a league half a league,
Half a league onward,
All in the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred:
'Forward, the Light Brigade!
Charge for the guns' he said:
Into the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred.

'Forward, the Light Brigade!'
Was there a man dismay'd ?
Not tho' the soldier knew
Some one had blunder'd:
Theirs not to make reply,
Theirs not to reason why,
Theirs but to do & die,
Into the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred.

Cannon to right of them,
Cannon to left of them,
Cannon in front of them
Volley'd & thunder'd;
Storm'd at with shot and shell,
Boldly they rode and well,
Into the jaws of Death,
Into the mouth of Hell
Rode the six hundred.

Flash'd all their sabres bare,
Flash'd as they turn'd in air
Sabring the gunners there,
Charging an army while
All the world wonder'd:
Plunged in the battery-smoke
Right thro' the line they broke;
Cossack & Russian
Reel'd from the sabre-stroke,
Shatter'd & sunder'd.
Then they rode back, but not
Not the six hundred.

Cannon to right of them,
Cannon to left of them,
Cannon behind them
Volley'd and thunder'd;
Storm'd at with shot and shell,
While horse & hero fell,
They that had fought so well
Came thro' the jaws of Death,
Back from the mouth of Hell,
All that was left of them,
Left of six hundred.

When can their glory fade?
O the wild charge they made!
All the world wonder'd.
Honour the charge they made!
Honour the Light Brigade,
Noble six hundred!




I love this poem. The first time I ever heard it , waswhile watch The Blide Side. Tim McGraw was reciting it. Ever since then I have never forgotten it. It brigns me courage and a "wisdom" in situations I feel are too tough. As I read it to myself I feel as though if six hundred can win a war then I surely can win my battle. It is important to share not only from its historical background but also because I feel as though when people read this they start to actually believe in themselves when no one else will and that is all anyone really needs.

Thursday, March 17, 2011

The Black Cat by Edger Allen Poe Continued

On a good note I wasn't arrested. BTW her dad is NOT a cop but a game wordon which means he is not allowed to arrest any one else it protains to live game(baiting deers to kill, over killing using the wrong hunting gears; i.e cross bow during riffle season, etc.).

The Black Cat by Edger Allen Poe

Because I am a nitwitt and could not figure out what perverseness was, I had to look it up. Basically it means to willfully do what is wrong/ not right. For example running a stop sign is not right but people do it anyways. Okay maybe that was a bad example but still you get the point. A time when I willfully did wrong.....hmmmmmm good question. I really have no idea what to say to this question ha! ( after like 5 minutes of pondering) OH I GOT ONE!! My sophomore year I had a falling out with, who I thought was, my best friend. She tried to hook up with my boyfriend and start drama in our relationship. So I confronted her at school the day after I found out about it. She is the type that uses " my dad's a cop and i will have you arrested" bit. When I confronted her, she denied everything. I knew she was lying, I saw all the texts she sent to my boyfriend. I said "Really? Do you think I am that stupid? You are pathetic."  and walked off. She called me a not so nice word that started with a b. So I turned around and punched her in the nose and broke it.

I knew it was wrong to do that. But I was caught up in the moment and I do regret doing that. Not because I regret punching her in the face but more so because I  was dissappointed in myself after I thought about this. I was dissappointed because I have never stooped to her trashy playing level before and I felt stupid for doing so cause I knew I was better than that. I was better than stooping to such a low level and the situation I put myself in by being her friend.

Procrastination.....

Me-"Hello my name is Savannah and I have a problem. I am a procrastinator and I need help. It all started when I was in 6th grade and my brother wanted me to go running with him one day. So I did it and put off my homework. Now i procrastinate about everything"

Class- "Hello Savannah. It's okay. That why we are here. We procrastinate too."

Okay so maybe that's not what really happens. But I sure do feel like it sometimes. Why is it so hard to just get  my lazy butt up and jump on what needs to be done and not worry about it? No i have to be stupid and make myself worry to death about due dates and such even though I know I will end up saying "I'll do it tomorrow."


Humph! I need motivation to get these BLOGS DONE!!!!!!!

The Curse by Andre Dubus Continued

(Maddie is in my arms the first week we had her)

(the week we got Ahab)

(this is from the end of fall 2010)

(from the first snow in 2010)



Both of them look SO MUCH better then they did when they came to us:) and that is one thing I am proud to be responsible for:)

The Curse by Andre Dubus

Something I feel responsible for is my 2 adopted animals. My first one: Her name is Maddison(Maddie for short). She is a yorkie cross. I found her running up and down the road one afternoon. I didn't think anything of it because we live in the country and it is not unusual to see random dogs down our road. Well later that day I went to check my mamaw's mail box for her and there she sat at the end of  her driveway. I looked down at her and asked (i realize dogs cannot talk) "Who do you belong to little one? Why don't you go home?" So I started walking back to my mamaw's house. I looked back to see if she had left yet and I didn't see her. I looked down at the mail in my hands and noticed 4 tan paws sitting at my feet where I had stopped. She had followed me to my mamaw's house. I called my mom and told her about the dog and she said she was coming up there. When she got there she knew whose dog it was. She said to give her a bath and get the fleas and such off her and when David got home we would take her back. Well a few hours later i took her back over to David's. I barely got out of teh care before he said "do you want her? i don't have the time to spend with her like my mom and dad did before they died." i looked at  my mom and she said we could make room at the house for her.

Number 2: My horse!!:) Oh how I love him. When I got him, he was skin and bones because other horses in the pasture were not letting him eat at all. He would have to woof half his food down in like 3 seconds or he wouldnt eat that day. When my boss called and told me about him I felt HORRIBLE for him.:( My family and I thought he was going to die in like a week. That was in spring of 2008. We fed him TONS of hay and this ground corn mixture to help him get the weight to stick to him. I had to worm him and take water out to him 3 times a day because apparently the draft horses were not letting him drink either.:( so sad I  know. But now he is super fat and very tempermental if he doesn't get his way. haha. I love him and wouldn't have him any other way though:) I am accidently responsible for them, as I like to say.:)

i will post the pictures in a seperate post.






























The Horse Dealer's Daughter by D.H Lawrence

1.) Mabel: 27 years old, short, unattractive, religious,presistant, established because of her money,suicidal untill Joseph saved her.
2.) Joe: Free-spirited, chews tobacco, oldest of the children at 33, horses were his life
3.)Fred Henry: brother number 2, not as passive as Joe, if he were an animal he would not be the one BEING controlled
3.) Malcolm: the baby at 22, observent
4.) Lucy- the other sister, put lots of distance between her family and her.
5.) Jack Fergusson: Scottish accent, husky voice, doctoer, slave to the countryside, curious/ asks a lot of questions
6.) Joseph Parvin: father of the family,not well educated, large horse dealer,married two times before he died, leaving his children in debt.

Blue Winds Dancing by Tom Whitecloud

It's game night and the stands are almost packed. The roar of the crowd let's us know they have are back no matter what happens. We warm up. Hearts are racing for the time being. The line up is called out. I can hear my heart beat like a drum keeping a steady beat. The whistle blows. EVERYTHING goes silent. The ball comes over the net. The pass is a little off. Our setter uses it to an advantage. Left, right, leftright,up,swing. BLOCKED! Thank God our defense covers good. Pass is perfect, set is excellent. Middle quick! She sees the split! BOOM!!!!!! NOT A CHANCE! Smiles are everywhere.  Next thing we know we are tied 2 games a piece. The last game only goes to 15. We have to bust our butts to get this done and get the W on the board. Sweat dripping done every ones face. But game faces are still strong.  The other team sets up for a 32. "STEP IN! STEP IN! I'M HERE! I'M HERE!" Up the blockers go! They looked early on the jump but the block.....IS GOOD. Point us! 13-14 game point. Our best server is up. She serves it short. They get it up! They set up for a slide. Our block is ready. We push the ball out on the block. Deep corner? It hits the ground!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WE WIN! WE WIN! WE WIN!




The most important thing to me is volleyball. I love the sport and the intensity it brings to personalities. Not only is it fun but it's also a very good way to loose weight:)

Wednesday, March 16, 2011

Luck Mark Twain

(She was my Christmas present when I was 5)
I am not a very lucky person what so ever. About 6 years (give or take a few years) ago my first dog got really sick. She could not get up, walk, must less eat or drink and she had NO BALANCE what so ever when we could get her up to take her outside. I was so heart broken because I was almost certain that I was going to end up having to go with my mom to the vet to put her to sleep. We took her to the vet and they ran test, after test, after test on her. They did MRI's to check her brain.
What most people don't do when they pick out a puppy for the first time is actully look at the breeds health history. With the breed that my baby was, it is VERY common for them to get lesions on their brain. Lesions are like cuts on the brain and they have bleeding in the brain which causes pressure on their brains. It's sad:(.
But anywho, the doctor found the start of a few lesions on the MRI. But they were not deep enough to cause all of her symptoms. So the vet put her on Prednizone( a steroid) to help her with regaining muscle mass. She ended up living for the next few years until she started getting sick again.
My mom and dad were at the beach for 4th of July weekend. My grandmother was left with me at home to look after Sugar(my baby). One morning I woke up and i could tell something was not right because usually Sugar would be laying in my bed with me, but she wasn't there. I crawled out of bed and walked around the house and found her laying on her pillow where she had been the night before. My grandmother had already talked to my mom and we got in the car with my baby and took her back to the vet. I knew at that point that it was time to say good bye to my loving dog of so many wonderful years. I  gave her a huge kiss on the head and told her i loved her and that it was okay. The vet said thaey would try everything they could to keep her alive. My dad called about 2 hours later and told me that her kidney's had already started failing and she didn't have  agood heart rhythm so he had her put her to sleep.

I say this was a lucky time because most people don't realize how much a vet appointment can cost when you have something like this happen. I was lucky I have such amazing parents  who knew my dog was not ready, those 6 or so years ago, to die. Also I was lucky because they were willing to pay $6,000 to run all those test on her to find out what was wrong with her, knowing there was a chance that the vets couldn't save her or find out what was wrong with her.
I was also lucky because I got to say goodbye and have my peace with it. I am still lucky today with this because she is burried in my pasture  under a Dogwood Tree with her best friend(my brothers dog). I miss her still but I know she is in a better place and I can go "see" her when ever I want to.

Monday, March 14, 2011

This Weekend

I am so stoked about this weekend. I have been waiting for it to be super super warm!!! Friday it is supposed to be 78 degrees. Oh summer how I have missed you! I am going to be giving my Bubz (what I nicknamed me horse) a bath, the car is getting washed and cleaned out, my windows are gettign opened in my room!! Man have I had spring fever! Don't get me wrong I love winter. But only if it snows. I would rather be on a beach somewhere in the summer time though.

Cathedral

Everyday is life changing. We learn so much in such a short time it is really hard to pick just one "eye opening" memory. Since I HAVE to choose one I would probably have to choose my great Uncle Ray's funeral. I was so close to him. This was the very first time I had to deal with death. I was only six years old when he died. I was in so much pain and hurt. I  was mad he had left me. At the time, I thought it had been forever and I would never ever be able to see him again. The following Sunday, my Papaw held his usual Sunday Service. However, this service was slightly different. He focused more on heaven and hell(more so on heaven because he told me after the service that that was where Uncle Ray had gone to be with God and Marie, his wife) But he put it into terms to where I (6 keep in mind) could understand what he was talking about. It was that day that I realized I should feel ashamed of how I felt, the anger. It was at this point that I realized that I was not with out him for ever. It was Gods way of making me a stronger person and he still left me with memories of him and the love he showed me for 6 whole years. I knew at that point, someday I would see him again.
Not long after that service, my family and I had to go to the will reading. Come to find out I received a large some of money and his late wife's wedding band(of which all of my dad's sisters wanted). Along with all that I received an 1906 dime in a case, that i hung on a necklace and I wear it ever chance I get . The chain i hung it on reaches to my heart and when the coin rests there, I know he is with me in heart.

Monday, March 7, 2011

A Rose for Emily

Cuckolded is the word I have chosen for the assignment on A Rose for Emily.
"The body had apparently once lain in the attitude of an embrace, but now the long sleep that outlasts love, that conquers even the grimace of love, had cuckolded him." page 94

True definition:
1. cuckold-noun: the husband of an unfaithful wife.
2.verb:to make a cuckold of (a husband).

After reading the definition of cuckolded. I have even more questions. I love how Faulkner uses such a large vocabulary because I can learn about new words and look them up, as well as, increase my own vocabulary.However cuckolded is one of those words i really have no idea why he used it instead of using unfaithful. Through my understanding of the sentence in which the word is used, he is saying that the embrace of Miss Emily was true. However, his "sleep" had cheated him out of time and love for her.

Thursday, March 3, 2011

Brantley Gilbert...:)

So  I am a huge fan of "no name" musicians. I love the fact that not so many people know of them. When I first heard Brantley Gilbert play guitar and sing I told myself i was going to be able to see him one day. Well I did! It was amazing. The funny thing about it was the day after my boyfriend ordered our tickets, Coyote Joe's got sold out for his concert. A group of friends and I were going to go but they ended up not ordere tickets in time so it was just me and my boyfriend.
As far as the whole music thing goes, IT WAS AMAZING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! As far as the expierience goes, it was HORRIBLE!! The night i saw Brantley was also the same night I went to my first "night-club". I learned that I have NO PATIENCE for drunk people.  A guy threw up right next to me and it splattered all over my boots and jeans xp YUCK!!

Anywho this is one of my personal favorite songs by him. My boyfriend sings it to me haha:)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tzw-MFplU8k

Neighbors:Minimalism

Minimalism is where the author focus's on the vivid details of a story instead of just saying what happened. They go to great depth to give the reader the image of what is happening through out the story. The author wants the reader to feel like he or she is in the story with the characters and participating/observing what is happening.

I, for one, am not a huge fan of this type of righting because it is hard for me to follow the outline, and what actually is going on. I tend to misread some information because I am so caught up with the details of the story instead of the concept or lessons learned in the story.

In the story Neighbors, written by Raymond Carver, use of minimalism is outstanding. When  Bill's neighbors leave for a trip to Cheyenne,Wyoming, Carver goes into great detail about how Bill truly feels about Harriet and Jim Stone,the neighbors. He feels as though the Stone's are higher in "class", as if they were richer and lead a more extravagant live then he and his wife. Another great example is when Bill goes to the Stone's to feed their cat, Bill examines "the canned goods,the cereals, the packaged foods, the cocktail and wine glasses, the china, the pots and pans."(page 138) Carver goes on to explain that Bill goes to the bedroom and tries on all the Stone's clothing( even Harriet's).