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The short story "Trifles" by Susan Gaspell was very intriging. The beginning began with a man entering Mrs. Wright's him in hopes to speak to her husband, John. When asked where John was, Mrs. Wright answerers that he is dead upstairs with a rope around his neck. The reading had no indicator as to how Mrs. Wright said this response, some felt she said it in a very casual way, almost making her seem crazy, while others read it in a very cold and emotionless tone, as she is extremely distraught by the death of her husband. I read it with an emotionless tone, because how I see it, when someone suffers a loss or in this case commits a murder, he or she is in shock and rather out of touch with the situation. Another debate about this story was the bird with the broken neck. I viewed it as a sign that Mrs. Wright was slowly losing her mind and killing the bird was just a stepping stone to her killing her husband. Whereas others in my class thought that Mrs. Wright killed her hu...

"Bartleby, The Scrivener was a short story written in 1853 by American writer Herman Melville. Essentially the entire story took place in a small copying office on Wall Street. The plot began with the unnamed owner of the law-copyist business. He had two employees that appeared to feed off one another in their fields. But he recently hired a new copier, Bartleby, a man of few words who at first, was the most diligent and perfect copier the boss had ever seen. But as time went on, Bartleby grew resentful towards his boss, and would simply reply to each request "I would prefer not to."Each day the boss grew more and more frustrated, but had a soft spot towards him for a reason he could not explain. After the bosses long dispute with himself on whether he should fire Bartleby or not, he finally followed through with the decision after several attempts. However, Bartleby had refused to leave for so long that the boss himself had to change the location of his office. After ...

Throughout the past week in class, we watched a 1954 Aflred Hitchcock filmed called Rear Window. For such a simple plot, the film was very engaging. It began with L.B. Jeffries, a photographer who is wheelchair bound due to a broken leg. Throughout his recovery, he sat himself facing a window and observed his neighborhood, nicknaming each neighbor and learning their routines. One night he heard a woman scream "Don't!" and noticed that Mrs. Thorwald seemed to have disappeared. Her husband, Mr. Thorwald was acting extremely suspicious after the event, and Jeff could not keep his eyes off of his window, especially at night. His caretaker and mistress, Lisa, initially deemed Jeff so be obsessive, and told him to stay away from the window because he was looking far too much into the situation. However, as the film went on, the two women grew extremely involved in Jeff's self-produced investigation. Lisa became extremely brave throughout this film, and began to break the vi...