Literary Analysis on the novel The Poor Sucker The novel The Poor Sucker by Dr. Kelly DeLong, is a love story between Eddie and April. Despite all of the complications in their relationship, Eddie is determined to maintain the relationship at any cost between him and April. Eddie’s quest for love turns into a struggle of being the poor sucker as he finds himself in awkward situations with April, her family, as well as his own family. There are four main characters critical to this novel. Eddie, the main character, is an eighteen year old who is a lonely, desperate, and determined individual who finds himself in a rut when making many attempts to change situations that are out of his control. April, Eddie’s girlfriend, has low self-esteem …show more content…
Mrs. Bennett, April’s mother, has the inability to give unconditional love. She is an enabler who happens to be a hypochondriac seeking attention—always playing the victim when situations arise. Billy, April’s brother, is a hot head, violent with his sister and others around him, and in need of attention. All of these characters have obvious flaws within themselves and complicate Eddie’s love for April, making him the poor sucker. Eddie is determined to maintain his relationship with April at any cost. He didn’t realize that he was exposing himself to a whole lot of dysfunction when it came to April and her family. Eddie grew up without both his parents in the same household. They are divorced and his mother remarried. Eddie and his father didn’t have a great relationship, his father behaves more like a friend rather than a responsible parent, and yet, Eddie still communicates and spends time with his father. Toward the end of the novel, Eddie’s father dwindles out of his life. His father picks Eddie and his sister up less and less until he doesn’t show up at all. The Bennett family isn’t exactly “the model” family from the inside out. Instead, Eddie see only the dynamics of …show more content…
All of the characters have issues of the past, damaging the present that will affect their future. The relationship between Eddie and April does not have a solid foundation and do not foresee the relationship working out. If April does not seek help regarding her insecurities, she will continue on the path of being like her mother and her brother. Eddie isn’t any better, blinded by love and seeking healthy relationships within unhealthy environments, he will never get what he is truly yearning for. According to Eddie, the void and loneliness he carries is worse than being around his dysfunctional girlfriend and family. Eddie must learn to first love himself enough before seeking love from others. Never the less, he finds comfort in the company of the Bennett family. Though the dynamics within the Bennett household is dysfunctional, Eddie feels as though he influences and play a significant part in each character’s life. He finds delight in knowing that he bonded with each member of the Bennett family not realizing he is dealing with a lot of unresolved issues—Eddie is still a poor
Northrop Frye states in his book Anatomy of Criticism that the tragic hero is “on top of the wheel of fortune, halfway between human society on the ground and the something greater in the sky”. The book also declares that tragic heroes are “inevitable conductors of the power around them”, and conductors may be victims as well as instruments of destruction (website). Willy Loman, the epitome of a tragic hero, brings suffering upon not only himself, but others, including his wife and sons. Willy establishes Northrop Frye's definition of a tragic hero through the suffering of both himself and his friends and family, and this suffering contributes to the great tragic vision of the play as a whole.
Both Alex and Clinton struggle with problems of their family and others. Alex feels as if he is treated different when hes is, but thats not what he wants everyone to treat him as,by his family, Jennifer, and other people. Clinton is treated as an outcast, his friends don’t want to hang out with him no more and his little sister treats him as a monster. He begins to realized what he ha...
Frank starts dating Vicki, a young southern nurse who has recently divorced her first husband and behaves naively, even though Frank knows that she has seen terrible things in her career and therefore could not be as clos...
... lives incapacitated. Whereas it is Eddie's own chracter traits that are exposed by the characters and circumstances. His active role in his downfall caused "the situation slid inescapably toward disaster"₈ Both protagonists are victims of tragedy brought about by the individual characters themselves as well as external elements.
In life there comes a time when everyone thinks that they are surrounded by phoniness. This often happens during the teen years when the person is trying to find a sense of direction. Holden Caulfield, a 16-year-old teen-ager is trying to find his sense of direction in J.D. Salinger's, "The Catcher In The Rye." Holden has recently been expelled from Pency Prep for failing four out of his five classes. He decides to start his Christmas recess early and head out to New York. While in New York Holden faces new experiences, tough times and a world of "phony." Holden is surrounded by phoniness because that is the word he uses to identify everything in the world that he rejects.
Lester is not the only character who suffers from this. His wife Carolyn and daughter Jane both know what it is like to feel trapped in an unhappy life. Carolyn is imprisoned by image. She has the notion that she cannot be happy unless everything appears as perfect. And Jane, feeling the weight of her parents, wants to break off from her prison, her home life. She like most teens views her parents as weird and wants out of that life.
Holden Caulfield, the main protagonist in the book “Catcher in the Rye”, is usually described as an uncouth, impolite, inappropriate character, who has little to no respect for anyone but himself. However, after I completed the book, I realized that while Holden did a poor job of establishing his positive characteristics to the readers, his behavior often proved he was a respectable, honest human being that was often misjudged. My opinion is that Holden possessed contrasting characteristics that were both undesirable and admirable qualities. I believe that because the book was written in the first person point of view, Holden is often judged based on his thoughts and not on his actions. Throughout the entire book the reader was given a perspective
Eddie was average in school, but he loved to read. His schoolmates shunned Eddie because he was effeminate and shy. He had no friends. In 1944 Eddies brother Henry mysteriously died. ( In the Beginning)
The interesting literary devices of using the protagonists birthdays illuminates details of Eddie’s character by giving us backstory about Eddie’s home life as well as character development as to what type of person Eddie develops into over time in a
... mother, opposite for their father is aggression. For young Gerald, conforming to his mother’s wishes could have a threefold effect. One, this could attribute back to a boy’s sexual desire and the natural manly instinct to care for their mother. Also, this could explain the secret internet prowling, as the need to take care of one’s mother, is represented through other women (physically and financially), and his uncontrollable impulses for sexual encounters. Two, there might have been some aggression towards his father, since he has a child from another woman, and his mother was agitated by this fact. Three, Gerald’s uncle, here Gerald’s extramarital affairs could be signs of proving himself a heterosexual man. Further, his different personas (pimp, a street dealer, etc.) and his desire to be revered and feared, all give him the strength to fight off his aggressor.
from the start that she is very reliant on Eddie and she wants him to
Edward’s detachment from society is the result of a floozy’s lie, a deranged woman’s religious claims, and a teen with an inflated ego that all seem to hate Edward because of his differences and because they cannot tell what he is and what his intentions are. Edward is a good person and he is not even a real human being. He is more kind and uncorrupt then the real human beings who live in the community. It matters to Joyce, Esmeralda, and Jim that Edward be definable and that they can recognize him as something with emotions and motives. However, Edward does not make any sense to any of them at all and their prejudices continue to exist because they do not and will not take the time to figure out that Edward’s differences are actually not as horrific as they make them out to be.
A view from a bridge is a play set in the early 50’s in New York near the Brooklyn Bridge. It’s a dramatic tragedy and it is here we’re introduced to Eddie Carbone and his niece, Catherine. In the play the audience is able to observe their relationship and watch it change. Towards the start we perceive a normal fatherly-daughterly relationship, where occasionally we may think Eddie is slightly over protective but at this point there is nothing abnormal about it. But as the play progresses we begin to see a different side to Eddie and also a different perspective of his obsessive feelings for Catherine. The feelings Eddie portrays for Catherine are clearly deeper than a parental like love and when it becomes apparent Eddie does have romantic feelings for Catherine, he has great difficulty hiding them even though he is unable to acknowledge what they are. This sets the (as Alfieri
In Lucy Steele’s confession to Elinor that she is engaged to Edward Ferrars, we can see how the novel illustrates gossip as a cause of both internal conflict, in Elinor, and external conflict, present between Elinor and Lucy. Elinor becomes jealous because of Lucy’s boastful gossip about her life, placing the two into a conflict over romance. When the two meet, Lucy divulges in her relationship with Edwa...
Marriage, one of the basis of the novel, was somewhat a tragic experience for Mr. and Mrs. Bennett. Mr. Bennett was captured by a pretty face, and was in a marriage that tied him to a foolish woman for the rest of his life. The result was disastrous to Mr. Bennett's character: he was, "forced into an unnatural isolation from his family, into virtual retirement in his study and the cultivation of a bitter amusement at his wife's folly and vulgarity," (Daiches 753-754). Though he was not happy in his marriage to Mrs. Bennett, he was content enough to remain with her and their five children: Jane, Elizabeth, Mary, Catherine, and Lydia.