Jumat, 27 Februari 2009

QUALITY By John Galsworthy

QUALITY

By John Galsworthy

  • Summary

Tired, miserable even bored is the way that many people feel when they wake up in the morning to get ready for work. Even the very thought of work puts some people in a bad mood. Others may not mind work but still do not look forward to going. It is a rare occasion to find someone who is completely satisfied with his or her career. However, for one man, work is bliss.

Yah, we can see in “Quality” by Galsworthy , Gessler, the shoemaker, is shown to be a man of integrity and of complete dedication to his work. the story of the hopeless struggle of good craftsmanship against low-price industry.
Mr. Gessler had his own shoe business where he made leather boots. His dedication is shown through the fact that, “He made only what was ordered, never taking ready-made shoes down from the shelf.” He wanted each pair of boots to be a custom fit to each individual and for every pair he made, he used a pattern taken from the customer’s foot size. One day the narrator of the story walked into Mr. Galsworthy’s shop wearing a pair of boots from a big business. Mr. Gessler noticed them right away and after a short time he said, “Dey get id all, dey get id by advertisement, nod by work. Dey take it away from us, who lofe our boots.”

Later in the story, the reader comes to find out that Mr. Gessler is forced to sacrifice half of his shop to a big business. He continued to make his boots for the same price and with the same amount of painstaking work. He must be truly dedicated in order to love his business unconditionally.

Mr. Gessler spent such an incredible amount of time preparing the shoes, never trying to forget the process, in order to make them as perfect as possible and because of this, he stood behind all of his work. The narrator, absent-minded of the fact that Mr.Gessler was so passionate about his boots once said to him, “Mr. Gessler, that last pair of boots creaked, you know.” Angered by the boy’s comment, Mr. Gessler said, “Zend dem back! I will look at dem.” He went on to say, “Zome boods, are bad from birdt. If I can do noding wid dem, I dake dem off your bill.” Not only does this show dedication, but also integrity because he was honest about his work and wanted to satisfy his customer.

Near the end of the story, the narrator comes back to Mr.Gessler’s shop after a long hiatus, only to find out that Mr. Gessler was no longer alive. When he questioned the worker about his death the man said, “Slow starvation, the doctor called it. You see, he went to work in such a way!… Never gave ‘imself time to eat; never had a penny in the house. All went in rent and leather… He regular let his fire go out…But he made good boots.” That last sentence was the meaning of the whole story. Mr. Gessler dedicated his life to making boots. No matter what he had to sacrifice, including his life, he was willing to do it for the love of his work. Even in his last few days of life, he never stopped making boots, and he even finished the narrator’s boots before he died.

Mr. Gessler indeed was a man of integrity and dedication. His dedication was shown through his struggle to please every customer, and his integrity was shown through his honest way of life and his credibility in his work. In his mind, the needs of his customers more important than his own, and when he was no longer in business, he had no reason to go on living.

  • Comment

Quality is kind of Masterpiece . This short story has a deep meaning. In this case Galsworthy, as the author, take a thoughtful interpretation of humanity. Has a deep philosophy of life of the meaning of existence as the theme.

The panorama or setting of place in Quality is The West End of London, The streets and the two shop (of the Getleers).

Galsworthy take himself as a narrator in Quality. It makes the reader feel so close to the characters and the situation there. The conflics appears between the Getleer and the big firm when they lose one of their two shop. The climax arrives when the surviving Gessler can no longer make living. And the resolution is when the Gessler’s death and the success of the firm. This plot make the characters and the theme of Quality reveal then the reader can take the message from it.

Overall I do not have any difficulties when read this story. But I must be honest that my vocabulary is not ‘enough’ to read this story.

chrysanthemum

DIFFERENT STYLE OF COMMUNICATION

Men are from Mars women from Venus. They are really different, body (of course), up to the way of thinking, feel and so on. Although men and women really different in some many ways, they related each other and have complex relationship. Take a look at many differences between them, there is one way that can connected them one another. Communication. Men and women have different style of communication. It is getting deep when they already engaged in marriage.

People think that the real habit of somebody appear when they already married. Everything about our “partner” (wife or husband) from A to Z we can see here whether it is good or bad. Why? Because we spend our whole life time with him/her. Then if two head become one (marriage) of course in facing the new world together problems will coloring their life. Again, here communication is needed between the couple. According to Deborah Tannen’s You Just Don’t Understand there are some facts (problem) that always occur in marriage and they dominated by non-verbal communication between couples related with the issue of gender and relationship. This is reflected also in John Steinbeck’s The Chrysanthemums.

The Chrysanthemums is set in Salina’s Valley in winter.

“…like a lid on the mountains and made of the great valley a closed pot…” (par 1)

Elisa and Henry Allen own a ranch, where Henry takes care of the cattle and Elisa looks after their home and works on her flower garden and works on her flower garden which consist of the gorgeous chrysanthemum that she really takes pride in. Elisa become the center of the story. Elisa Allen is a lonely woman who enjoys growing and also nourishing her chrysanthemum. Since her husband is always working in their farm, she never has enough attention or any kind affection.

In this short story tell that Elisa is a woman capable of doing many things but she cannot show her skills due to the social implications imposed on her by the males of society. Elisa’s figure is described as “blocked and heavy”.

“… She was thirty-five. Her face was lean and strong and her eyes were as clear as water. Her figure looked blocked and heavy in gardening costume, a man’s black hat pulled low over her eyes…” (par.5).

Elisa can be seen as Elisa can be seen as unhappy with her female role, and her unhappiness as a woman has led her to try to take on both more masculine activities and to put more fervor into the feminine tasks she already does—when she is pruning the chrysanthemum stalks,

“…her face was eager and mature and handsome; even her work with the scissors was over-eager, over-powerful..”(par. 6)

Men are generally described as being “handsome,” and the adjectives used to describe Elisa’s activities reflect the personality of someone who is either incredibly strong.

The communication between Elisa and Henry is not good enough. They can live together but actually they cannot understand each other. So that’s why Elisa describing as a lonely women that unhappy with her marriage. The flowers (chrysanthemum) here reflected Elisa. Then we can see Elisa’s mind about Henry’s utterance about her “pride” chrysanthemum.

“…I wish you’d work out in the orchard and raise some apples that big.” (par.12)

It shows how only little interest that he has for her chrysanthemum that reflected herself. Then as shown here Elisa does not feel appreciated by her husband. Henry absolutely do not know about this. Although his ways of doing things might sound like a better way, his wife needs as a woman are being smothered and her spirit would die. It is hurt her as a women. We know that due to Tannen, women needs support and sympathy to do all the things in her life especially from their close people. So that women can feel being appreciate and loved by her husband or close friend.

The traveler, unlike Henry, is able to gain access to Elisa’s garden and therefore her heart as well. The traveler, unlike Henry, is able to gain access to Elisa’s garden, and therefore her heart as well. Although the appearance is not the greatest, she is interested in him. Why? The reason is that he shows interest in her “pride” chrysanthemum in order to persuade her to find something for him to fix. Again, the connection there is that he was interested in her flowers that reflected herself.

“Kind of a long-stemmed flower? Looks like a quick puff of colored smoke?” he asked. “That’s it. What a nice way to describe them.”(par.52-53)

With this response, she now feels appreciated and attractive to the stranger. Furthermore, the traveler pretends again, tells Elisa about someone that like flowers too but does not have any chrysanthemum in her garden. Of course as the same flower lover, she wants to share her some seeds of chrysanthemum and put it in a pot and give it to the traveler. All his compliment to her about the flower lead her to feel obligated to allow him to fix her pots.

"Here. Put it in your wagon, on the seat, where you can watch it. Maybe I can find something for you to do." (par.79)

His manner changed. He became professional. "Good as new I can fix them." At the back of his wagon he set a little anvil, and out of an oily tool box dug a small machine hammer. …(par.80)

Elisa does not realize that the traveler just pretend about that and cover all of it with the compliment about flower. Just pretend. Sometimes if we are feel appreciated with someone, we could not see what’s behind.

Other miscommunication between Elisa and Henry when he ask Elisa to have a dinner to town as celebrating the sale of the cattle. Elisa in a good mood after meeting the traveler. Then, she prepare her best dress and performance indeed. Henry sees his wife change surprisedly.

"Why--why, Elisa. You look so nice!"

"Nice? You think I look nice? What do you mean by 'nice'?"

Henry blundered on. "I don't know. I mean you look different, strong and happy."

"I am strong? Yes, strong. What do you mean 'strong'?"

He looked bewildered. "You're playing some kind of a game," he said helplessly. "It's a kind of a play. You look strong enough to break a calf over your knee, happy enough to eat it like a watermelon."

That is not the definition Elisa wants to hear she wants make he knows that she is strong of spirit not muscle. Henry tries to compliment her in a way that he believes will appease her, she actually takes offense. There is a misunderstanding between them. In this case Henry tries to says his surprise of the changing of his wife but in a men style. But, his wife cannot accept that. Henry supposed says his compliment in other way that can make her truly notice his meaning. On the way to Salinas for dinner with Henry, she find the chrysanthemum that given to the traveler on the road without the pot. Her heart is broken.

Her face was turned away from him. "It will be enough if we can have wine. It will be plenty." She turned up her coat collar so he could not see that she was crying weakly--like an old woman.(last paragraph)

She just realize that the Traveler attentions to her and her flowers was false. He only wanted to flatter her into giving him some business.

At least the the short story really show us how women and men both have a different way to expressing their own feeling each other. Not every willing can show in a language or orally. Body language also take a big part in men and women relationship. In this case husband-wife. We cannot prevent this kind of problem (misunderstanding etc) but in this case we learn how to knowing our wife/husband well in order to finish the problem that could appear in a relationship.







the dead of the hired man

“ Meaning of Home for Silas “

“The Death of the Hired Man” is one of Robert Frost’s poem. When I read this poem, it makes me wondering. The poem is just like kind of short story but this is a poem actually. The poem ‘starring’ by the couple Mary and Warren which is has the dialogue here and tell whole story, and of course Silas as the center of the story.

We have two contradictory speakers, each one right in his or her way, and only when the points of view are joined is the poem resolved. Yet the resolution is not tied up in a neatly restful way. On the contrary, it is open-ended, that is, we are left with two points of view, but although they have clung to their differences, they have made a species of truce, and the poem concludes, concludes in an open-ended way.

The poem itself tell about the return of Silas, the ex worker in the couple’s field. After all the time had passed he was back to the couple’s house. It makes the couple feel confuse in order to accept him back or not and they have the different opinion about this. The differences between the attitudes of Warren and Mary become clear. In lines 31-36. Warren is frustrated because of his past experience while Mary is compassionate because she has observed Silas’s current condition. Although Mary attempted to care for him physically, Silas seemed to be too exhausted to receive her care. The fact that he was unable to wake up to drink tea or smoke foreshadows the end of the poem, when he will be permanently unable to wake up.

He speculates that Silas has “come to ditch the meadow” as he’s promised to do in the past, but Warren knows Silas is incapable of the task. Even after Mary provides more detail about her conversation with Silas, Warren remains unsympathetic. Their conversation here provides some additional background material regarding Silas. He has a brother who is quite successful by conventional standards but with whom Silas does not get along. Since Warren feels Silas did not keep up his end of the bargain, Warren believes he owes Silas nothing. Mary, on the other hand, placates Warren in the tradition of principle based on need — that those who can must take care of those who cannot, regardless of whether they deserve it. Warren gradually acquiesces to Mary’s entreaties and agrees to keep Silas on at the farm. When Warren goes to check on Silas, Silas is dead.

In this case I want to talk about why Silas is back in the couple’s home after all the time. ”The Death of the Hired Man,” as you'll recall, begins as the wife informs her husband that Silas, the hired man, "is back...be kind." He answers: "when was I ever anything but kind to him? / But I’ll not have the fellow back." Many lines later, after the sketched-in background, the key exchange occurs. "Warren," she tells her husband, "[Silas] has come home to die: / you needn't be afraid he'll leave you this time." "Home," the husband mocks gently, "home." "Yes, what else but home?" she answers:

It all depends on what you mean by home.
Of course he’s nothing to us, any more
Than was the hound that came a stranger to us
Out of the woods, worn out upon the trail.

To which the husband answers: "Home is the place where, when you have to go there, / They have to take you in." But she cannot agree: "I should have called it / Something you somehow haven’t to deserve."

The Hired man has returned "home" to die. Though kinship would suggest that the old man’s rich brother ought to provide a home for him, Silas evidently feels more at home with the farm couple, who have supported him over the years. The poem presents two definitions of "home": " ’Home is the place where, when you have to go there, / They have to take you in.’ / ’I should have called it / Something you somehow haven’t to deserve.’ "

In this case Silas appears to have come "home" by both definitions. Despite his initial refusal, it looks as if Warren (the farmer) will have to take his old hand in, though Silas has done nothing to deserve it. Of course, when the moment of truth arrives, Silas is already dead. Perhaps after “The Death of the Hired Man” the definition of home will not be the lesser good that Warren called “the place where they have to take you in,” but the greater good Mary calls “something you somehow haven’t to deserve.”

ANTON CHEKHOV.s THE BOOR

Anton Chekov’s The Boor Analysis

Death is a secret of life. Everybody in this world will facing the death someday somewhere we don not know well because it is the God’s secret. In The Boor we will see about the story of a death and the story around it. The Boor is a drama that written by Anton Chekov in 1860-1904. The characters in The Boor are Helena Ivanovna Popov a young widow, Grigori Stepenovitch Smirnov a proprietor of a country estate and Luka the widow’s servant. The drama is about a desperate young widow named Helena Ivanovna Popov. Her husband, Nikolai Michailovitch already dead. As time goes by, she never cannot accept that his beloved husband already dead.

MRS. POPOV: And I shall never leave it--why should I? My life is over. He lies in his grave, and I have buried myself within these four walls. We are both dead.

Mrs.Popov feels that her world already end when her husband dead. The sadness still covered her from the outside’s world. She never go outside the house and make a small talk with her neighbor like make a wall with outside. Then as a royal servant, Luka try to remind his master to stop sink in a sadness. The dead is still in the ground. But the survive must continuing her life. Do not stuck in one way.

Suddenly a man is coming to the widow’s house. Yap. He is Grigori Stepanovitch Smirnov. He comes to Mrs. Popov house with a special mission, to ask the money to pay the loan from the bank in the named of his dead husband. He comes not in a polite way. Mrs. Popov still does not want to accept a guest no matter what, but Smirnov still in his own argument must meet the widow right now. He speaks rudely to Luka and also Mrs. Popov.

Of course Mrs.Popov still could not pay the money now. She will pay it the day after tomorrow. Because she does not have the money now. Then Smirnov cannot stand in this case he is he must pay the loan now. But, he is cannot say it in a polite way. He talks to Mrs. Popov rudely, he does not know about the way treating woman. When he talks to her seems he treat her like a man talks even animal. It makes Mrs. Popov is getting angry with him. Boor. It is the word that used by her to described how rude his word. They are arguing each other.

The climax is the rudeness of Smirnov, becoming so hot I think. Here we comes he bring a emancipacy there.

SMIRNOV: I'll shoot her down! I'm no fledgling, no sentimental young puppy. For me there is no weaker sex! LUKA: Oh, sir. [Falls to his knees.] Have mercy on me, an old man, and go away. You have frightened me to death already, and now you want to fight a duel. SMIRNOV: [Paying no attention.] A duel. That's equity, emancipation. That way the sexes are made equal. I'll shoot her down as a matter of principle. What can a person say to such a woman? [Imitating her.] "The devil take you. I'll put a bullet in your impudent head." What can one say to that? She was angry, her eyes blazed, she accepted the challenge. On my honor, it's the first time in my life that I ever saw such a woman.

It is not a good way of treating a woman. As a man you should can control your emotion. Not only with a woman I think. You should behave and polite. Not like Smirnov’s did to Mrs. Popov. He does not care about Mrs. Popov condition. He keeps speaking and arguing. Well, I do not know is this a part of his action in order to knowing Mrs. Popov well or not. Mrs. Popov take the gun but she does not know how to use it. Then Smirnov teaches her to use it. In the middle in teaches Mrs. Popov, suddenly he talks about his feelings to Mrs. Popov. Of course she cannot believe that. they argued again.

SMIRNOV: My mind is not clear--I can't understand. Servant--water! I have fallen in love like any young man. [He takes her hand and she cries with pain.] I love you! [He kneels.] I love you as I have never loved before. Twelve women I jilted, nine jilted me, but not one of them all have I loved as I love you. I am conquered, lost; I lie at your feet like a fool and beg for your hand. Shame and disgrace! For five years I haven't been in love; I thanked the Lord for it, and now I am caught, like a carriage tongue in another carriage. I beg for your hand! Yes or no? Will you?--Good! [He gets up and goes quickly to the door.] MRS. POPOV: Wait a minute! SMIRNOV: [Stopping.] Well? MRS. POPOV: Nothing. You may go. But--wait a moment. No, go on, go on. I hate you. Or--no; don't go. Oh, if you knew how angry I was, how angry! [She throws the revolver on to the chair.] My finger is swollen from this thing. [She angrily tears her handkerchief.] What are you standing there for? Get out!

Here we can see that all of the debating in a couple of hours about the debt. Finally bring them into I don not know how exactly to call it. Just like a love that happening in a sudden in Smirnov. Everything wired, strange could happen in love’s world. in this case I don not know what is really happened between them. All I know, death is bring a deep sadness but we should not have to sink in lament all the time. We must continue our life and facing the reality clearly.

Minggu, 15 Februari 2009

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