Thread: Car symbolism - online-literature.com
2006年12月1日 · 7. Car are typically a symbol of power, and this is closely tied into wealth. Gatsby, The Buchanan's and even Nick have a car, whereas if you compare this to the Wilson's' they desperately try to make a life servicing their cars, and the only one they own in in a dilapidated state of repairs in the garage. The cars in the novel illustrate how ...
A Hanging by George Orwell - online literature
A Hanging. It was in Burma, a sodden morning of the rains. A sickly light, like yellow tinfoil, was slanting over the high walls into the jail yard. We were waiting outside the condemned cells, a row of sheds fronted with double bars, like small animal cages. Each cell measured about ten feet by ten and was quite bare within except for a plank ...
Two Friends by Guy de Maupassant - online literature
Two Friends. Besieged Paris was in the throes of famine. Even the sparrows on the roofs and the rats in the sewers were growing scarce. People were eating anything they could get. As Monsieur Morissot, watchmaker by profession and idler for the nonce, was strolling along the boulevard one bright January morning, his hands in his trousers ...
Women in Love by D.H. Lawrence: Chapter 5 - online literature
Chapter 5. In the Train. ONE DAY at this time Birkin was called to London. He was not very fixed in his abode. He had rooms in Nottingham, because his work lay chiefly in that town. But often he was in London, or in Oxford. He moved about a great deal, his life seemed uncertain, without any definite rhythm, any organic meaning.
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne: Chapter 12 - online …
Chapter 12. CHAPTER XII. THE MINISTER'S VIGIL. Walking in the shadow of a dream, as it were, and perhaps actually under the influence of a species of somnambulism, Mr. Dimmesdale reached the spot where, now so long since, Hester Prynne had lived through her first hours of public ignominy. The same platform or scaffold, black and weather-stained ...
The Man Who Was Thursday by Gilbert Keith Chesterton: Chapter 13
The President acknowledged this proximity by coming to the back of the car, bowing repeatedly, kissing his hand, and finally flinging a neatly-folded note into the bosom of Inspector Ratcliffe. When that gentleman opened it, not without impatience, he found it contained the words: -- "Fly at once. The truth about your trouser-stretchers is known.
The Innocence of Father Brown by Gilbert Keith Chesterton: The …
In a nest of orange velvet lay like three eggs, three white and vivid diamonds that seemed to set the very air on fire all round them. Fischer stood beaming benevolently and drinking deep of the astonishment and ecstasy of the girl, the grim admiration and gruff thanks of the colonel, the wonder of the whole group.
I. A Discussion Somewhat in the Air - online literature
A Discussion Somewhat in the Air. The flying ship of Professor Lucifer sang through the skies like a silver arrow; the bleak white steel of it, gleaming in the bleak blue emptiness of the evening. That it was far above the earth was no expression for it; to the two men in it, it seemed to be far above the stars.
The Viy by Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol - online literature
In the sky there were now fewer clouds, and here and there a star was visible. “See, brother!” one of them said, “we must now cry ‘halt!’. Cost what it may, we must find entrance and a night's lodging.”. The three students knocked together at the gate, and cried “Open!”.
Bernice Bobs Her Hair by F. Scott Fitzgerald - online literature
But perhaps the most significant symbol of her success was the gray car of the hypercritical Warren McIntyre, parked daily in front of the Harvey house. At first the parlor-maid was distinctly startled when he asked for Bernice instead of Marjorie; after a week of it she told the cook that Miss Bernice had gotta holda Miss Marjorie's best fella.