The Wash Woman Character Analysis

Invidious and Acrimonious In all short stories the main character displaces a sense of kindness, reliability, or hatred, and cruelty. The author portrays a character in the story that people can’t help but to feel attached to, or feel repulsed to think or read about. In the short story The Wash Woman by Isaac Bashevis Singer, Mr. Singer makes the readers believe that The Washwoman is a trustworthy character by showing her main quality of reliability. There are many stories where the character shows kindness, but on the contrary there are also many cases where the people in the book show only invidious and acrimonious thoughts and actions. Throughout the short story The Most Dangerous Game by Richard Connell, the author elucidates Mr.General Zaroff as a “bad” character by showing the reader of the things he had done in the past and what his plans were for Rainsford. In every story the author gives the characters features or

In the story when he left him in the rain he did go back for Doodle. “Finally, I went back and found him huddled beneath a red nightshade bush beside which were resting on his draw-up knees”(395). This shows that the brother does have a conscious and went back for his younger brother. Although that may not be the case. “I hadn’t run to far I became tired, and the flood of childish spite evanesced as well”(395). This shows that he didn’t go back for his brother, but for his own needs. He does not like to feel bad for the actions he takes. So he went back not for his brother but for his own needs. In the short story The Scarlet Ibis by James Hurst, the author portrays the older brother of Doodle as a so called “bad” brother, by displaying many acts of cruelty. He showed no kind of selflessness, but only selfishness. He also made his younger brother do things he didn’t want to do and what he could not do. In the short story The Scarlet Ibis the older brother is a “ab”