#lit help

[the-great-jay-gastby]

'I hate careless people. That's why I like you.'

The Great Gatsby

[the-great-jay-gastby]

People disappeared, reappeared, made plans to go somewhere, and then lost each other, searched for each other, found each other a few feet away.

The Great Gatsby

[ncrthstars]

okay friends I need actual advice (like 4 lyfe) (no rly)

ahh I’m having a mini existential crisis bc last year my english teacher, she was giving me this mini compliment thing & she was like “use [your skills] well, use them wisely...” & I was holy sh** this is just about literature analysis what does one do with somewhat-okay skills for literature analysis?? anyways I just emailed her a reminder thing abt teacher recs & it hit me that I have done little to no literature work since that class like I read the scarlet letter & two gentleman of verona & slaughterhouse 5 & i just did my brother’s english project for him but like... what else do I do with this? what does one do with a burning conviction that you are doing everything wrong and the ability to Suffer enough to churn out a decent essay?? how does this work?? 

[certainlymad]

I need help from lit majors and English majors of tumblr!! Can anyone give me a brief background of Bourdieu's theory of Distinction? I've been reading this essay of his a million times but can't get the root of it. Thank you!!

[anaxolotladay]

Does anyone know if there's a text post floating around with Joyce Carol Oates' Nighthawks monologue, specifically the one about the woman in the painting?

[moon-on-the-tides-blog]

Manhunt, by Simon Armitage

"A sweating, unexploded mine" is what Laura finds in her husband. There is a contradiction here between the intimate detail in "sweating" and yet another comparison of his injuries to inanimate objects that don't feel pain. Perhaps this shows her reluctance to accept what is happening. "Unexploded" is also a really tense image. Armitage whether the explosion is a metaphor for anger, knowledge or pain.

[misadventure-rogue]

I believe that the capacity for suffering is also the capacity to live. 

In Irwin Shaw's Where All Things Fair and Wise Descend (this link doesn't have the complete story though. I tried okay.), Steve Denicott, a seemingly perfect boy with a perfect life befriends his introverted classmate, Crane, who just lost his brother. Together they go on a sojourn downtown and talk about Crane's brother's death. It was mentioned there that since Steve now knows that all around him, bad things can happen and that sometimes compromising is needed. Spending time with his bereaved classmate, Steve realizes that to suffer is to live. To admit suffering, to truly admit suffering, is to truly live.