the story is narrated in the first person by a young, unnamed sixteen year old boy who is looking back at an incident that happened a year earlier when he was in Saratoga Spring. When the racing season comes everything talked about in Beckersville is just horses and nothing else.
The narrator believe Jerry Tillford his ideal who owns Sunstreak, a horse . If anything the narrator begins to idolize Tillford placing him, as he does Sunstreak. The narrator begins to like Tillford more than he does his own father. There is also a sense that the narrator sees a similarity with his own passion for horses, in Tillford, which may be the reason that the narrator begins to idolize him.
But one day he loses his respect. Narrator and his friend go to see horse racing. Sunstreak wins and narrator go after Jerry Tillford who with his friends was going to celebrate. They go into one house. Narrator sees from window. He sees Tillford making love with a woman. This scene shatters his all respect and he becomes so angry. He wanted to know why Tillford did this.
'The Old Woman' is simple and short poem by Joseph Campbell where he compares old woman with different things and describes her. The poem has three stanzas. .In the first stanza , the poet compares the old lady with the white candle. White colour is symbol of peace and candle is symbol of light. The old woman is like white candle. She is in peace and she gives other people light by his experiences. She is able to show right path who need that. In the second stanza, the poet compares the old lady with the spent radiance of the winter's sun. It refers old woman's long life. But now she is old like winter's sun, but she has gathered a wide experience of life. Poet writes, "A woman with her travail done" In last stanza, the poet compares the old woman with the water under the ruined mill. The water is still under the ruined mill and by comparing this poet writes about the old lady that her all sons has gone, they do not live with her. But she has all the...
Nice...and simple language
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