Thomas Wolfe The Far And The Near
«The Far and The Near»
Since childhood, people start to have many dreams and wishes, some of them come true, others gets more far away with the time. We find the way to realize many of those dreams. But then we have a trouble, ironically the trouble of humanity that no one is never unconditionally and infinitely happy, even when we are getting all of what we have desired. In the story ‘’The Far and The Near’’ by Thomas Wolfe the reader can see a perfect example of human imperfection.
The story ''The Far and The Near'' by Thomas Wolfe starts in little town with the cottage on the side of the hills. Everyday at the same time by two o clock the train passes the town. For over twenty years the engineer from the train blows the whistle, on the other side he finds respond from a woman who waves him back. Every time she comes with her daughter at that certain time to the station and greeting the man. After so long time it seems to him they became very attached even they never spoke. The years passed, everything around seems changed but not that …show more content…
In the lines –“ His heart, which had been brave and confident when it looked along the familiar vista of the rails, was now sick with doubt and horror as it saw the strange and unsuspected visage of the earth which had always been within a stone’s throw of him, and which he had never seen or known. “ (Wolfe,1935, paragraph #5) - the reader can feel through it how the author compares the dramatic condition of the engineer in the crucial moment of his life and the ideal image of his unrealized dreams. The metaphor as an engine that creates a sense of flow through a whole story. The author lead through a fiction by using metaphors for the reader to convey the feelings of the character and emotionally react to the scene. In another
Since childhood, people start to have many dreams and wishes, some of them come true, others gets more far away with the time. We find the way to realize many of those dreams. But then we have a trouble, ironically the trouble of humanity that no one is never unconditionally and infinitely happy, even when we are getting all of what we have desired. In the story ‘’The Far and The Near’’ by Thomas Wolfe the reader can see a perfect example of human imperfection.
The story ''The Far and The Near'' by Thomas Wolfe starts in little town with the cottage on the side of the hills. Everyday at the same time by two o clock the train passes the town. For over twenty years the engineer from the train blows the whistle, on the other side he finds respond from a woman who waves him back. Every time she comes with her daughter at that certain time to the station and greeting the man. After so long time it seems to him they became very attached even they never spoke. The years passed, everything around seems changed but not that …show more content…
In the lines –“ His heart, which had been brave and confident when it looked along the familiar vista of the rails, was now sick with doubt and horror as it saw the strange and unsuspected visage of the earth which had always been within a stone’s throw of him, and which he had never seen or known. “ (Wolfe,1935, paragraph #5) - the reader can feel through it how the author compares the dramatic condition of the engineer in the crucial moment of his life and the ideal image of his unrealized dreams. The metaphor as an engine that creates a sense of flow through a whole story. The author lead through a fiction by using metaphors for the reader to convey the feelings of the character and emotionally react to the scene. In another