Daisy Miller, Huck Finn, TS Eliost's Wasteland

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In "The Waste Land" Eliot suggests that a man can be reborn if he gives, sympathizes, and has self-control. There are many characters within American Literature that could have benefited from this advice. Characters such as Amanda Wingfield , the personas in "Home Burial," and Daisy Miller exemplify people, that if this advice was readily accessible, could have understood circumstances and could have been figuratively been reborn. In the previously noted characters lives, they let either society or their own regression take over instead of their own self-assurance and capabilities to empathize with others. By taking the advice with a grain of salt they would have been more prepared for the situations that made their lives tumultuous. However there are characters in literature that are the personification of this advice. The character Huck Finn is the personification that by giving, sympathizing, and demonstrating self-control one may be reborn. By his abilities to do all of the previously mentioned actions he went through an initiation story of him growing into a kind and capable man. Amanda Wingfield, the personas within "Home Burial," and Daisy Miller are the antithesis of the above advice, while Huck Finn is its exemplifica

o, a lack of communication between them is evident. Both so self-absorbed in their own grief, they are incapable of communicating in a way that is constructive. The fight that befalls them takes away the last shred of love that was once in multitudes within the household, a love that could have helped them show compassion, give kindness to the other person, and exhibit self-control in such a tumultuous time.

The personas in "Home Burial" would both have benefited from the advice of Eliot. Having just lost a child, both the woman and the man are grief stricken, however, both by showing their grief in different ways. The woman, in obvious depression, lashes out at her husband believing he is callous and unfeeling for being able to bury their child and talk about normal subjects after the burial. The husband, in his own state of grief, antagonizes her with his not knowing why she is mad at him. Both lacking an ability to give understanding to one another in their time of pain, a fight ensues in which the woman leaves the home; thus resulting in the burial of the baby (literally), and figuratively, the home and the marriage. The couple is unable to sympathize with one another's needs and when in confrontation they lacked self-control. If both had been more attentive to the other's needs and tried to give understanding to the other's pain, the fight they had may not have occurred. Als!

Eliot summed up the best advice he could give to a person in three short words: give, sympathize, and self-control. Whether this is applying to characters within stories or to people in the real world, following the advice could lead to a better lifestyle with a more empathetic and kind outlook. In the cases of Daisy Miller and Huck Finn, society dictated what they should do and think. However hypocritic, the characters dealt with social pressure in their own way; thus, society's iron hand turned into Daisy's downfall, and Huck's stepping stone. Personal regression and lack of self-control was the tragic flaw for Amanda Wingfield and the personas in "Home Burial." By following the advice of Eliot, Amanda and the personas in "Home Burial" would have been able to digress from their self-absorbed worlds and open doors to new opinions and less painful lifestyle. Eliot has summed up some of life's lessons in few words, just like a poet.

A mass of contradictions, Daisy Miller is American innocence personified. Her "daisy-like" fragility and commonness are evident at every turn. She is childlike, attractive and ultimately fatal to herself. Her stubborn belief in her own interpretation of events propels the tragic action of the story. Her rapacious need for male attention is fueled by her parental neglect; her mother is oblivious and her father is absent. The forced gaiety Daisy displays, her democratic regard (and disregard) for class

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Approximate Word count = 1909
Approximate Pages = 8 (250 words per page double spaced)

Category: Novels