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9/30/14 
11:18AM

                “Alcée Laballière wrote to his wife, Clarisse, that night. It was a loving letter, full of tender solicitude. He told her not to hurry back, but if she and the babies liked it at Biloxi, to stay a month longer. He was getting on nicely; and though he missed them, He was willing to bear the separation a while longer-realizing that their health and pleasure were the first things to be considered.”

                So this man just cheated on his wife and is now telling her to stay in Biloxi for another month. This could easily just be a onetime thing but it seems that he thinks it might happen again. He does care about his family enough to send them a letter asking about their wellbeing, also saying that he was getting along nicely so that they could be at ease as well. 

reality check

        The Narrator/Artist had a pretty big reality check by the end of this story. At the beginning he believed that he was this high class artist. When the Monarchs showed up he thought that they where there to get a portrait done, which is a big deal to the artist. He soon realize that they just wanted to get the "cartoon" style sketch done. While he is doing these sketches he notices that they look either disfigured or just the same as his other drawings. This puts him into the perspective that he is not at good as he thinks he is, and that he lacks the imagination to do better things.

    To my fellow writer and competition, I respect your work. I find it inspiring to have a writer that likes to think in the same mind set, but I digress I find your work lacking of morals and very dark. you do put some heavy symbolism in your work. I have two questions about your work with the black cat, first is the second cat just the first one but came back. secondly The pen knife i think has no real interpretation, but a colleague of mine has thought otherwise.

    

    sincerely,

    Hawthorne

American Literature

  To me America Literature is what I personally view as classic ideas of literature. I understand that Shakespeare and other great minds are not american. For me the american dream is big and i think that the books that are written as a form of expressing the way the writer feels about the American dream is American Literature.