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461: Hiroshima: ... were in the country on Kyushu. A niece lived with him, acting as a maid and a manservant. Dr. Fujii, at 50, was healthy, convivial, and calm, and he was pleased to pass the evenings drinking whiskey with friends. (WOW!) Dr. Fujii sat down to read Osaki Asabi. He started to notice his paper was a brilliant yellow. He rised to his feet. Dr. Fujii was about a mile from the ...

462: Hills Like White Elephants: ... and carried them around the station to the other tracks. He looked up the tracks but could not see the train. Coming back, he walked through the barroom, where people waiting for the train were drinking. He drank an Anis at the bar and looked at the people. They were all waiting reasonably for the train. He went back through the bead curtain. She was sitting there and smiled at him ...

463: Hills Like White Elephants: ... and carried them around the station to the other tracks. He looked up the tracks but could not see the train. Coming back, he walked through the barroom, where people waiting for the train were drinking. He drank an Anis at the bar and looked at the people. They were all waiting reasonably for the train. He went back through the bead curtain. She was sitting there and smiled at him ...

464: Hercules: ... his way to hunt the boar, Hercules stopped to visit his friend Pholus, who was a centaur. Pholus gave Hercules some wine and let him rest. The other centaurs, however, were angry that Hercules was drinking their wine. He drove away the centaurs who tried to attack him with his arrows. He chased after them for 20 miles. While he was gone, Pholus accidentally dropped one of Hercules’ poisonous arrows on ...

465: Great Gatsby: ... this even at his own parties: "my eyes fell on Gatsby, standing alone on marble steps and looking from one group to another with approving eyes... I wondered if the fact that he was not drinking helped to set him off from his guests" (54). He is rarely seen among his guests, most of the time he is just watching them. Gatsby is a lonely man, although there was a small ...

466: Grapes Of Wrath: ... book until her baby is born dead. The death of her child seems to transform her. At the very end of the novel she breast feeds a dying man. To me this is symbolic of drinking from the milk of human kindness. She gives of herself to save another human being. She too is learning about the fellowship of man. In conclusion, as the Joad family seemingly disintegrates, they actually merge ...

467: Grapes Of Wrath: ... confesses to the crime knowing he would be out of the weather and well fed. After the deputy takes him away Tom comes out of hiding and finds that Uncle John took off on a drinking binge and that Connie left Rose of Sharon. Connie is no where to be found but, John is found by a creek drunk. To convince John to come along Tom hits him in the chin ...

468: F. Scott Fitzgerald: ... efforts on penning lucrative, but by no means extraordinary, short stories. Throughout their marriage, Zelda put constant economic, as well as, emotional strains on Fitzgerald. She encouraged his short story writing, as well as his drinking, and was continually swaying his focus from writing to socializing. Also, Zelda’s eventual mental breakdown triggered Scott’s own series of nervous breakdowns. Because of these factors, Zelda is often considered the prime instigator ...

469: Exiles: ... throughout the fifties"(647). Her father says about Steedman's mother, "Your mother drank gin once," contradicting what Steedman heard when she was young from her mom that "she didn't go out dancing or drinking." Showing that this secret was revealed "years later, with nostalgic regret by her father"(647). Knowing that her mom, at the time, she remembers, was a good mother and later in life to be lied ...

470: Educating Rita: ... lot more. I want a bit of amusement, cause I'm a thinking man…" ( Act 2, pg 58 Mr Doolittle says to Mr Higgins) The undeserving poor, the people who spend most of the time drinking the money they have earned do not have any remorse of not living a life with middle class moralities with its responsibilities and duties. Mr Doolittle is a stereotype for this kind of living. As ...

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