Literary Essay
I wrote a essay about the story read at literature class, "The Prision" by Bernard Malamud. Here is my work: "The prision" written by Bernard Malamud is about a man who works in a candy store, and one of his cotumers is a little girl who steals from him. In this essay the themes of this story, which are "Life as a prision" and "Hope for a change" will be analized. In the theme "Life as a prision" Tommy Castelli feels his life is a prision because he is married to the woman he does not love (Rosa) and he has to work in a place he does not want to (he wanted to be a shoemaker) This can also make reference to the fact that Tommy's uncle is in prision. "He cursed the candy store and Rosa and cursed, from it's begginig, his unhappy life." (p. 156) In the theme "Hope for a change" Tommy wants the little girl to chane so she does not suffer everything Tommy suffered. Also because Tommy wants to chan...