Trifles

Trifles had a lot of differing characters in it and in my opinion was a pretty good play. I found that it showed the different ways people react to serious events. Women seem to be more willing to accept things for their face value whereas the men naturally wanted to do research and find things out. It also seemed as though the women were more likely to stay in the shadows and not get involved in the case. All things aside though I found it to be very interesting and I definitely think she committed the murder.

Young Goodman Brown

This story involves a young man and his journey into the woods with another character. Despite the man's hesitance he continues on into the woods with the other character. The man struggles with the decision to join the cult or not. Symbolism in this story reveals itself in different ways, the character who leads the man into the woods to me represents the devil whereas his serpent like staff seemed to show the element of temptation. The devil like character bestows his staff upon the man almost as if he wanted to tempt him into following him further. To me the story shows that even the purist of people can be deceived and tempted into following the wrong path.

A Hunger Artist

This story is about a man that lives without food in a cage. Many people doubted that he went without food but despite the non believers many people would still visit. Once he decided to join the circus much interest in him was lost, at times it was unknown how long he hadn't eaten. At first i thought this man had symbolic reasons for his starvation but soon found out he did not. I did not really care for this story and I have nothing to gain from it.

The Jewelry

The Jewelry is also a story that is heavily revolved around irony. The story is about a women and her need to flash jewelry that isn't real. The husband of the woman insists that fake jewelry should not be flashed and natural beauty beats fake jewelry. Despite her husbands opinions she continued to wear her jewelry until the day she died. Eventually the husband began to run out of money so in hopes of making some quick money he tries to sell his wifes jewelry at a low price, only to discover the jewelry once assumed to be fake was worth much more than the husband had thought. I liked this story and how the jewelry that the husband had criticized ended up solving his money problems.

The Cask of Amontillado

The Cask of Amontillado is about one man and his revenge on an enemy. This short story was full of irony in many forms. Verbal irony is present in most conversations had in this story and the main character often smugly wishes his enemy good fortune. Dramatic irony is shown to the reader because both sides are seen. Many other event of irony are present but one would have to read this story to fully understand them all. This story really interested me and will most likely be my favorite out of all we read.