How Vainly Men Themselves Amaze - 6377 Words

Summary The Force of Circumstance is a story which tells about a man, Guy, and his wife, Doris. They live in Malaysia. Guy moved there right after his schooling and has lived there for years. He left once and he came back with his white wife, Doris. The story is not written in the first person, it is a narrator who tells you the story. The language use is normal and the tone of voice a little bit ironic. When Guy was young he was very alone at night. Night after night it was the same. One evening his boy asked whether hed like to have a girl to come and live with him. First he had doubts about it, but he said yes after all, and she stayed. They had three children. After several years he sent her back to the village because he was†¦show more content†¦He disappeared into his dressing-room and she heard him -whistling cheerily -while, with the carelessness with -which she was always remonstrating, he. tore off his clothes and flung them on the floor. He ’was twenty-nine, but he -was still a school-boy; he would never grow up. That -was -why she had fallen in love with him, perhaps, for no amount of affection could persuade her that he -was good-looking. He was a little round man, with a red face like the fall moon, and blue eyes. He was rather pimply. She had examined him carefully and had been forced to confess to him that he had not a single feature which she could pr aise. She had told him often that he wasn’t her type at all. ’I never said I -was a beauty,’ he laughed. ’I can’t think -what it is I see in you.’ But of course she knew perfectly well. He -was a gay,jolly little man, -who took nothing very solemnly, and he -was constantly laughing. He made her laugh too. He found life an amusing rather than a serious business, and he had a charming smile. When she -was -with him she felt happy and good tempered. And the deep affection -which she saw in those merry blue eyes of his touched her. It -was very satisfactory to be loved like that. Once, sitting on his knees, during their honeymoon she had taken his face in her hands and said to him: ’You’re an ugly, little fat man, Guy, but you’ve got charm. I can’t help loving you.’ A wave of emotion swept over herShow MoreRelatedHow Vainly Men Themselves Amaze Interpretation908 Words   |  4 PagesI m going to interpret a short story called  «How vainly men themselves amaze ». This is a story about a holiday affair turning into a love triangle between young Franklin, a married woman Mrs Palgrave and her German nursemaid Heidi. The plot of the story is not tangle. Eighteen years old high-school graduate Franklin being on holiday with his parents at French resort gets to know Mrs Palgrave, an auburn-haired woman about forty with mottled and stencilled green eyes. Gradually their acquaintanceRead More The Garden Essay1605 Words   |  7 Pagesthe whole of the poem centers on the idea of wholesome nature in a world without the instruction of mankind. In the first three stanzas, the virtues of the garden are provided through comparison with the trial (and supposed pleasures) of the world of men, stanzas five through seven address the pleasures of the body, the mind, and the soul as they are gratified in the garden, stanza eight through nine returns to the gesture to Paradise. As this logical progression of argument moves in the poem, each