"In The Lake Of The Woods"

This was an interesting book. I thought that it was well written. I especially like the ending of the story. how you didn't know what exactly happened. I thought that he was the one who killed his wife in his flash back. Also the night that his wife disappeared was very strange. I thought that it was weird that he pored scolding water on plants and i thought that he might have done the same to his wife. I thought that the setting of the book was very important to the story. A secluded area. I thought that this made it possible for the story to be more mysterious, and to help in understanding the mental state the the character is in.

"Young Goodman Brown"

Too me this story represents good and evil. In the story good is his wife Faith. At the begining of the story the author say "And Faith, as the wife was aptly named,". And in the story Goodman Brown represented Evil. I thought this because woodman was going to go to a witch meeting and his wife was trying to stop him from going. Looking back on the story i thought of an angle and the devil on the shoulder of Goodman.

"A Hunger Artist"

I thought that this was a very strange and depressing story. The symbolism that i found in this story was "hunger". Not because that author did not eat, and fasted. But because the hunger could represent his will to fast longer than he has done before, and to keep stretching his limits. Also his hunger could represent how he is never satisfied with how famous he becomes. This is for at least in the beginning, but by the end people don't really pay attention to him. Also his "hunger" could mean that he is never satisfied; when someone asked him why he didn't eat he said, "because I couldn't find the food I liked".

"The Jewelry"

I thought that this was a good story that did not turn out the way that i had expected it to. First of all i thought that it was strange that his wife liked fake jewelry. And also that she was the one that spoiled her husband. The narrator said "It would be impossible to conceive of any attentions, tendernesses, playful caresses which she did not lavish upon her husband." I also thought that it was interesting how the story was progressing and then out of the blue his wife dies. Also when the narrator told about the man going to see how much he could get for the jewelry i thought that he would have got turned down, and also i thought that he would have been arrested, and accused of a thief. Also the last line "she made his life very miserable", just shows that great wealth does not make a persons life happy.