Summary Of Contents Of A Dead Man's Pocket
In the story “Contents of a Dead Man’s Pocket” written by Jack
Finney, the main character named Tom goes through a near death
experience causing him to realize that ambitions are not all that life is
about, that his job is not more important than his wife, and that he is
missing out on life because of his ambitions. The conflict in this story is
a man versus self because Tom’s ambition clouded his judgement into
believing that his job was more important than his life, so important
that he risked his life for it.
Additionally, a conflict that comes up is how the husband spends
too much time on his work, he is focused too much on his job that he
ignores his life. This takes away time with wife, …show more content…
Contents of the dead man's pockets, he thought with
sudden fierce anger, a wasted life.”
Furthermore, he now understood that he wasted all that time on
his work while really accomplishing nothing. He had wasted precious
moments that he could have spent with his wife that now he would not
have a chance to do, it was too late. There would be nothing to
remember him by, no accomplishments, no memories. After finally
being able to get back into his apartment by breaking the window he
knows what he has been missing out on, his thoughts are not clouded
by his need to work anymore. He understands that life was not meant
to be spent working to have a life, it was meant to be with ones you
love. When he gets back into his apartment he proves that he is a
changed man by going out to catch up with his wife to see the movie.
And the fact that he laughs and ignors the paper flew back out the
window when he opened the door to leave that he had just retrieved
from outside is proof that his job is not his main thought anymore.
Tom’s near death experience helped him to understand
Finney, the main character named Tom goes through a near death
experience causing him to realize that ambitions are not all that life is
about, that his job is not more important than his wife, and that he is
missing out on life because of his ambitions. The conflict in this story is
a man versus self because Tom’s ambition clouded his judgement into
believing that his job was more important than his life, so important
that he risked his life for it.
Additionally, a conflict that comes up is how the husband spends
too much time on his work, he is focused too much on his job that he
ignores his life. This takes away time with wife, …show more content…
Contents of the dead man's pockets, he thought with
sudden fierce anger, a wasted life.”
Furthermore, he now understood that he wasted all that time on
his work while really accomplishing nothing. He had wasted precious
moments that he could have spent with his wife that now he would not
have a chance to do, it was too late. There would be nothing to
remember him by, no accomplishments, no memories. After finally
being able to get back into his apartment by breaking the window he
knows what he has been missing out on, his thoughts are not clouded
by his need to work anymore. He understands that life was not meant
to be spent working to have a life, it was meant to be with ones you
love. When he gets back into his apartment he proves that he is a
changed man by going out to catch up with his wife to see the movie.
And the fact that he laughs and ignors the paper flew back out the
window when he opened the door to leave that he had just retrieved
from outside is proof that his job is not his main thought anymore.
Tom’s near death experience helped him to understand