Understand with Ryland

In The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway, Bill Gorton tells a story about his four days spent in Vienna. It involves a black fighter and brings into question Bill’s feelings and prejudice towards black people. This is no doubt a complicated aspect of Bill as this was a changing period of social justice and general societal attitudes. Bill tells what he can remember about going around with “the local Harvard man” and the fighter after the match in Vienna. The man won the fight, knocking out his opponent (a local white man). Everyone at the fight except Bill began throwing things at him. The fighter went home in Bill’s car and Bill loaned him clothes, saving the fighter from a potentially dangerous situation. Bill then attempted to get him his money and clothes, only being successful in attaining the latter and loaning him the former to make it home. This is a story that clearly shows Bill as compassionate and helpful when the rest of Vienna was rude and disrespectful to the fighter. E...

Richard Dalloway is pretty cool. He stands out as a character in the novel Mrs. Dalloway, not because he is awful but because he is really the only character who isn’t. He is compassionate and genuinely thinks about the ways he can do good. Richard was genuine and reading his pages did not make me feel resentment towards him as the other character’s did. All other characters seem to have traits that make them unlikeable, if not to you as a reader, to other characters in the book.  He appears to have the universal love of everyone but Sally but even she seems to dislike him solely because of his conservative politics. Miss Kilman who expresses her hatred for all those who are wealthy and especially Mrs. Dalloway makes an exception for Richard. Lady Bruton and Milly Brush both thought that they prefer Richard to Hugh when they came to brunch. Even Peter, the man who was in love with his wife does not feel any resentment towards Richard and they talk like like old friends when they se...