This eventually shapes his views on finding a person to be romantic with. ... The setting as mirror takes a general theme associating being indoors as a bad thing and being outdoors as a good thing. ... "Air, musty from having been long enclosed, hung in all the rooms, and the waste room behind the kitchen was littered with old useless paper" (61, Araby). ... The words "musty" and "long enclosed" could be a description not of the room but of the way he is feeling. ... In another encounter in the same room, he describes his atmosphere, "the fine incessant needles of water playing in the sodden ...

• Word Count: 1579
• Approx Pages: 6

"It's a crazy world or maybe it's just the view we have of it, looking through a crack in the door, never being able to see the whole room, the whole picture" (Ordinary People 183). ... Throughout the novel, Judith Guest illustrates several different themes. ... Another theme in the novel is atonement. ... For example, a scene where all emotions are released at dinner could be perceived in an utterly different light if Conrad had not been telling the story from his own point of view. ... He voices his opinion that Beth's point of view is barely articulated and it leave...

• Word Count: 2059
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School