A Similar aspect of the characters in Sodier's Home, A Good Man is Hard to Find, and Bartleby the Scrivener.
Title: A Similar aspect of the characters in Sodier's Home, A Good Man is Hard to Find, and Bartleby the Scrivener.
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A Similar aspect of the characters in Sodier's Home, A Good Man is Hard to Find, and Bartleby the Scrivener.
Category: /Literature/English
Details: Words: 893 | Pages: 3 (approximately 235 words/page)
Harold's mother, the grandmother, and Bartleby are selfish
characters.
In Ernest Hemingway's "Soldier's Home," Harold's mother
shows selfishness in that she refuses to understand his
changing behavior. Her son, Harold Krebs, is a young man who
is returning home from his tour of duty in France. The
overwhelming shock of his experiences at war molds Harold
into a different man. Harold wants to talk about how the war
has affected him. He is unable to …showed first 75 words of 893 total…
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building. His boss feels obligated to help, because Bartleby
does not have any family to speak of. Bartleby also shows
that he is selfish when he is in jail. On the lawyers first
visit to the prison, Bartleby tells the lawyer that he has
"nothing to say" to him. The Lawyer continues to visit him
frequently and pays for his meals. Bartleby never expresses
any gratitude, no matter what the lawyer does for him.