.... to describe more than a few people in this book. He used the term to be what a person is if they don't act naturally and follow other people's manners and grace. Holden didn't like phonies, he thought of them as if they were trying to show off. He didn't like it when they showed off because it seemed so fake and unnatural every time they would do so. "At the end of the first act we went out with all the other jerks for a cigarette. What a deal that was. You never saw so many phonies in all your life, everybody smoking their ears off and talking about the .....

.... amenable to rules. Hester even remarks to herself, “Oh Father in heaven – if thou art still my father – what is this being which I have brought into the world” (Hawthorne 89)? Pearl would harass her mother Piyasena/Pine 2 over the scarlet “A” she wore. In time, Hester was subjected to so much ridicule from Pearl and others that she was forced into seclusion. Pearl represents the sins of both Hester and Dimmesdale. Pearl is said to be the direct consequence of sin (Martin 108). Their sins include lying to the people about the .....

.... does not necessarily stem from commonly expected sources, such as “the unknown,” but rather, it seems to grow from a fear of failure, a fear of being unable to fulfill potential. A number of stories and vignettes from In Our Time reflect these trepidations, and throughout, the presence of alcohol surfaces as a reminder of the desperation felt by the characters as they confront or avoid the circumstances surrounding their fears. It should be clarified, however, that “desperation” here does not insinuate the many nuances that the term conju .....

.... been known to leave without paying after too many drinks. As the two waiters monitor the old man, they younger waiter mentions that the old man tried to kill himself in the previous week. The older waiter asks why, and the younger tells him that he had no reason to kill himself because he had \"plenty of money.\" The older waiter lets the conversation drop after he hears this, because this statement shows the younger waiter\'s perspective. The older waiter seems to have empathy for the older patron, where the younger waiter has ill feelings to the cu .....

.... better sneak home and see her (Phoebe), in case I died and all." When Phoebe found out that Holden had been expelled from yet another school she became upset and complained that Holden didn't like anything. She asked him what he would like to be and Holden answered, "I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all. Thousands of little kids, and nobody's around - nobody big, I mean - except me. And I'm standing on the edge of some crazy cliff. What I have to do, I have to catch everybody if they start to go over the clif .....

.... "I was cured all right." These are the last words of the book in the American version. There is no indication that Alex will change from the evil life it appears he will soon resume. It is implied to the reader that Alex is destined for a life of evil and there is nothing he can do to change it. Alex has no free will or moral choice. The theme of the 20 chapter version is that there is no such thing as free will or moral choice. Alex is evil and he has no ability to change that. The story also ends without Alex evolving at all from the beginning of the book. Cha .....

.... narrator does not mention exactly how old Phoenix is, but “her eyes were blue with age. Her skin had a pattern all its own of numbering branchless wrinkles…” (Roberts 197). This supports the idea that she is advanced in years, and as she makes the journey to town periodically it becomes harder and harder for her. Another is a question of her sanity. Support for the theory that Phoenix is losing it “ when she sat down to rest … she dared not close her eyes and when the little boy brought her a plate with a slice of marble-cake on it she spoke and said ‘that .....

.... has many enemies. Odysseus’ main enemy that keeps him from returning home is Poseidon. Poseidon was the father of Polyphemos, who was blinded by Odysseus. Circe, an enchantress and daughter of the sun, was also an enemy of Odysseus who wished to turn Odysseus and his men into swine. In the poem Gilgamesh and Enkidu defeat the Bull of Heaven. The Bull of Heaven is also an enemy of Gilgamesh sent as a punishment for his arrogance. Mason states, “She [Ishtar] shook in greater rage and said she had no time to listen to reminders from old gods, but only to a .....