"Wagner Matinee"
The quite, rural life of the prairie conflicts with the rushed, crowded life of the city. Examples of this conflict are mentioned throughout, in the main character's thoughts. The prairie effects the aunt's appearance a lot, mostly because of the grueling work and chores she performed daily on the farm. Her skin was worn and old and "leathery". Its connotation is good, based off good descriptive sentences. The aunt was more affected by her past and current residences. She lived in the city and loved to attend the showings at the music hall frequently, because when they moved to the prairie, she would sing songs and teach Willa piano. When she got to take a break from the rough life of the prairie, she was taken to a show at the local music hall, and burst into tears at the memory. Then, she didn't want to leave because she felt as if the farm was right outside the building.
"The Jilting of Granny Weatherall"
She was deserted by her fiance 60 years prior to this story, and she held a certain superiority over the others. They pretended as if she wasn't there, and in the final paragraph, she was slowly ebbing away; her body dwindling into a nothingness with an abruptness that startled her. In essence, she was jilted from her life. The community has dissolved because everyone has lost respect for her,, and she's beginning to hold contempt for her own family whispering and glancing around her as if she's blind, deaf, and dumb. A dissolving community just unhinges completely, piece by piece with no way to stop it, or mend it. A changing community is still the same community, just in a changed state or form.
"Here is New York"
To show that New York isn't your average big city, with the inhabitants flooding the streets and there being one barbershop every mile or so. New York's many communities are each a neighborhood inside a neighborhood, everyone knowing everyone like an old 50s movie. A traveler there for the summer may see the New York that they write movies and plays about, but sometimes people get a glimpse of what the real New York is like. The odd person who stays at a run down motel and sees the diversity of neighborhoods has seen the real New York. Problems in New York are problems everywhere. At any given moment, too many people can be brushing their teeth at once and the city's water supply can cut off. People don't have to walk three locks before getting a sandwich, a coffee, dropping off broken shoes, picking up dry cleaning, and getting a shave. That shows how New York is a big city, made up of many cities, all self sufficient. In Chicago, we have similar neighborhoods; like, there is a gas station, a bank, a barbershop, and 9 places to get food within 8 blocks of my house.
The quite, rural life of the prairie conflicts with the rushed, crowded life of the city. Examples of this conflict are mentioned throughout, in the main character's thoughts. The prairie effects the aunt's appearance a lot, mostly because of the grueling work and chores she performed daily on the farm. Her skin was worn and old and "leathery". Its connotation is good, based off good descriptive sentences. The aunt was more affected by her past and current residences. She lived in the city and loved to attend the showings at the music hall frequently, because when they moved to the prairie, she would sing songs and teach Willa piano. When she got to take a break from the rough life of the prairie, she was taken to a show at the local music hall, and burst into tears at the memory. Then, she didn't want to leave because she felt as if the farm was right outside the building.
"The Jilting of Granny Weatherall"
She was deserted by her fiance 60 years prior to this story, and she held a certain superiority over the others. They pretended as if she wasn't there, and in the final paragraph, she was slowly ebbing away; her body dwindling into a nothingness with an abruptness that startled her. In essence, she was jilted from her life. The community has dissolved because everyone has lost respect for her,, and she's beginning to hold contempt for her own family whispering and glancing around her as if she's blind, deaf, and dumb. A dissolving community just unhinges completely, piece by piece with no way to stop it, or mend it. A changing community is still the same community, just in a changed state or form.
"Here is New York"
To show that New York isn't your average big city, with the inhabitants flooding the streets and there being one barbershop every mile or so. New York's many communities are each a neighborhood inside a neighborhood, everyone knowing everyone like an old 50s movie. A traveler there for the summer may see the New York that they write movies and plays about, but sometimes people get a glimpse of what the real New York is like. The odd person who stays at a run down motel and sees the diversity of neighborhoods has seen the real New York. Problems in New York are problems everywhere. At any given moment, too many people can be brushing their teeth at once and the city's water supply can cut off. People don't have to walk three locks before getting a sandwich, a coffee, dropping off broken shoes, picking up dry cleaning, and getting a shave. That shows how New York is a big city, made up of many cities, all self sufficient. In Chicago, we have similar neighborhoods; like, there is a gas station, a bank, a barbershop, and 9 places to get food within 8 blocks of my house.
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