The Theme of Mirriam
In the short story “Mirriam”, Truman Capote does an execellant job portraying Mrs. H.T. Miller’s character by showing us the many changes she goes through in her personality, style of apartment, and how she acts under stress. He also foreshadows up coming events by the type of weather that takes place at a certain time. When the story opens it portrays Mrs. Miller as a plain, prim, and self-suificent person. From her “matter-of-fact” clothes, to her “iron gray” hair that is clipped back and causally waved, she is a picture perfect model of a sixty-one year old woman. When Mrs. Miller decides to go out to the movies it says that she puts on her “beaver skin coat and golashes”. This represents on how she tries to hide and protect herself from the outside world. This all changes when she meets Mirriam. When she makes her first appearance at Mrs. Miller’s home she causes a ruccous by upsetting the canary and taking a brooch that poor Mrs. Miller’s neat hair has slipped lopsided from the hair net and loose strands straggled down her face. Her pale cheeks have now been “molted in red patches, as though a fierce slap had left permanent marks”. By the third appearance Mrs. Miller had began to cry very violently and ugly red lines ha
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Some common words found in the essay are:
HT Millers, Miriam Millers, Truman Capotes, HT Miller, Truman Capote, millers life, , sky earth snow, miller decides movies, coming events, millers home, miller decides, meet miriam, decides movies, sky earth, earth snow,
Approximate Word count = 1021
Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)
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