Attitude :: essays papers

Attitude 20th century writers dealt with many issues and themes passim their writing. The authors that I have chosen to look at are Updike, Beatti, Rothke and Plath. These authors and their workings will each be evaluated by how they deal with the subjects love, death, liberation and laissez passer of time. The short story Separating by John Updike deals with the subject of love and I also believe it deals with the themes quest for identity and alienation and nausea . The story talks ab show up how two parents are going through the transition of telling their children that they are going to separate. This is important to them because they do love their children in truth much they want to make the timing perfect so it is easier on the children. The father and mother seemed as though they needed to find out who they really were without their children. They did all things for the kids. They said that they loved one another hardly yet they didnt make each other happy. I bet that they just werent sure what made them happy. Weekend a short story by Ann Beattie deals with the subject of loss of time and the like theme that Updikes story dealt with quest for identity .I chose the subject of time because at first they loved one another and had a good family and then time passed and they ended up in such a weird place in their relationship. George had control over Lenore in the counselling that she never knows that she can leave him and be okay. She stays with him because she does care for him only if also because she has a place to put her children and herself to sleep. Wish for a boyish Wife a poem by Theodore Rothke is one that goes into the subject of loss or the idea of loss. This is a man who is telling his wife that he hopes that even while he grows old he wishes that she were beautiful and youthfulness for eternity. H e wishes her to never endure grief or loathe these are the real things that make one old. He could be ver y much in love with his wife and by wishing this for her, so she never looses her beauty.