What Does Wolfe Characterize Bland
Victoria Elrod
Mrs. Inouye
IB English; Per1
September 7, 2013
Bland Characterization As human beings attempting to navigate our way through life we must choose a profession that will either benefit our skillset or meet our daily needs of performing what we love to do. Some of us are not so fortunate when seeking out our place of work, and select an occupation that begins to wither away over time and develops to be less important to us. We may be blindsided in the first place that this may be a passion closer to our hearts than we think or even choose it for our own greedy benefit; not the greater good of others. Even if our dexterity calls for the career, our heart may not. In the excerpt from You Can’t Go Home Again by Thomas Wolfe, …show more content…
His dark soul can be seen at a glance and the profundity of his wickedness is understood when one looks upon him. Wolfe describes him as “stained with evil”(52) and as many know a stain is not just hovering on the surface of the material it is split on, it is much deeper and harder to remove; also becoming permanent over time. Bland’s stained with a deep corrupt nature and though it may have not been his choice he is forever marked with the malevolent liquid that is depravity. Another example of Bland’s evil nature portrayed through his self-exhibition is the fact he had to wear glasses. He began to wear them after he left his hometown, “Libya Hill, and the thin, white face, with its shadowy smile, had been given a sinister enhancement by the dark spectacles which he then wore”(68-70). Bland began to go blind and the illness was developing at a worsening pace. His Blindness was not due to cataracts or an eye abrasion, the ailment has been “engendered in his eyes” long ago. This may be and innuendo towards the many women that he slept with yielding a sexually transmitted disease that can result in blindness and it also can be somewhat ironic that he is in a profession having to do with law, because justice is blind. The public already was well aware that he was having forty winks with many women, and it does not seem difficult to connect the dots that this was the reason his sight was deteriorating. Having a disease you cannot control is socially acceptable but receiving a disease from indecent un-reputable actions causes people to have unattractive opinions about that person. Everyone was under the idea that he was corrupted, they all knew he was “genuinely, unfathomably evil—and evil of this sort has a certain grandeur about it not unlike the grandeur of supreme goodness”(83-85) It seems easy for the public to easily recall his goodness, the clean good white material under the
Mrs. Inouye
IB English; Per1
September 7, 2013
Bland Characterization As human beings attempting to navigate our way through life we must choose a profession that will either benefit our skillset or meet our daily needs of performing what we love to do. Some of us are not so fortunate when seeking out our place of work, and select an occupation that begins to wither away over time and develops to be less important to us. We may be blindsided in the first place that this may be a passion closer to our hearts than we think or even choose it for our own greedy benefit; not the greater good of others. Even if our dexterity calls for the career, our heart may not. In the excerpt from You Can’t Go Home Again by Thomas Wolfe, …show more content…
His dark soul can be seen at a glance and the profundity of his wickedness is understood when one looks upon him. Wolfe describes him as “stained with evil”(52) and as many know a stain is not just hovering on the surface of the material it is split on, it is much deeper and harder to remove; also becoming permanent over time. Bland’s stained with a deep corrupt nature and though it may have not been his choice he is forever marked with the malevolent liquid that is depravity. Another example of Bland’s evil nature portrayed through his self-exhibition is the fact he had to wear glasses. He began to wear them after he left his hometown, “Libya Hill, and the thin, white face, with its shadowy smile, had been given a sinister enhancement by the dark spectacles which he then wore”(68-70). Bland began to go blind and the illness was developing at a worsening pace. His Blindness was not due to cataracts or an eye abrasion, the ailment has been “engendered in his eyes” long ago. This may be and innuendo towards the many women that he slept with yielding a sexually transmitted disease that can result in blindness and it also can be somewhat ironic that he is in a profession having to do with law, because justice is blind. The public already was well aware that he was having forty winks with many women, and it does not seem difficult to connect the dots that this was the reason his sight was deteriorating. Having a disease you cannot control is socially acceptable but receiving a disease from indecent un-reputable actions causes people to have unattractive opinions about that person. Everyone was under the idea that he was corrupted, they all knew he was “genuinely, unfathomably evil—and evil of this sort has a certain grandeur about it not unlike the grandeur of supreme goodness”(83-85) It seems easy for the public to easily recall his goodness, the clean good white material under the