Cornet At Night

Each every person has a different perspective and everyone stays with what is familiar and routine to them. The short story Cornet at Night by Sinclair Ross discusses the tension between the old and the new, It talks about old and new both having different sides. The story has contrasts, for example, the farm and the town, the man at the bar and Phillip Coleman. Cornet at Night teaches people to explore and understand both sides considering it can give someone another point of view.

Firstly, the main character, Tommy Dickson has always lived on the prairie farm with his family, he lives in isolation from the rest of the world, therefore, he does not know anything outside the farm. Later, Tommy is given the task to go to town and find a stook to help his father on the farm. This brings us to the comparison between the farm and the town, the farm is old since Tommy is comfortable with this place and the town is new because Tommy doesn't know it very well. The story states “But in town it is different. There are eyes here, critical, that pierce with a single glance the little bubble of his self-importance, and leave him dwindled smaller even than his normal size.”(Ross 223) Among the sophisticated, well-dressed folks, and the advanced types of transportation. Tommy definitely feels he is being judged, But at the same time, if he didn’t go to the town, he would have never learned things he never knew. In Addition, another
The farm versus the town represents the difference of isolation and diversity. The man at the bar versus Phillip Coleman shows the contrast of different occupations and experiences. Due to all of these dissimilarities, Sinclair Ross gives readers the message to try and new things instead of staying with the same things people usually do on their daily