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Birthmark                          “She came out of the trance like a plane taking off. Instead of being inside the stain she was now looking down on it from above. Like a lake, it grew smaller and smaller until it was only a tiny region in a larger mass”   

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Birthmark                          “She came out of the trance like a plane taking off. Instead of being inside the stain she was now looking down on it from above. Like a lake, it grew smaller and smaller until it was only a tiny region in a larger mass”   

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The Birthmark by Miranda July written in 2007 is about a woman who had a  birthmark. She later  removed the of her birthmark, and was left questioning her identity.

The woman is battling with the beauty standards of America and is left with the idea that in order to fit in she has to remove the "problem"

Upon removal she realizes that she was beautiful because of her birthmark, it was the one thing that made her unique and different in a good way. She believed no one would love her with a "stained face" but  in the end  her husband loved her more with the birthmark because part of her unique beauty.

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The Great Gatsby                                       "The truth was that Jay Gatsby, of West Egg, Long Island, sprang from his Platonic conception of himself. He was a son of God—a phrase which, if it means anything, means just that—and he must be about His Father’s business, the service of a vast, vulgar, and meretricious beauty. So he invented just the sort of Jay Gatsby that a seventeen year old boy would be likely to invent, and to this conception he was faithful to the end." 

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The Great Gatsby                                       "The truth was that Jay Gatsby, of West Egg, Long Island, sprang from his Platonic conception of himself. He was a son of God—a phrase which, if it means anything, means just that—and he must be about His Father’s business, the service of a vast, vulgar, and meretricious beauty. So he invented just the sort of Jay Gatsby that a seventeen year old boy would be likely to invent, and to this conception he was faithful to the end." 

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The book The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald written in 1925 is about Jay Gatsby determined to reunite with his former lover, Daisy. On his path to get closer to Daisy and try to prove himself worthy of her he created his own identity.

Gatsby has taken on this persona of an elegant and rich guy from the West Egg but only Gatsby knows how he achieved such a high social status.

His morals are wrong and his life becomes tangled due to his lifelong need to win Daisy over. He cant accept change in order to better himself.

This shows how money and corruption changes people and makes them do unjust acts and they lose the person the used to be in the processes.

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Death of a Salesman                 "I saw the things that I love in this world. The work and the food and the time to sit and smoke. And I looked at the pen and I thought, what the hell am I grabbing this for? Why am I trying to become what I don’t want to be . . . when all I want is out there, waiting for me the minute I say I know who I am."

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Death of a Salesman                 "I saw the things that I love in this world. The work and the food and the time to sit and smoke. And I looked at the pen and I thought, what the hell am I grabbing this for? Why am I trying to become what I don’t want to be . . . when all I want is out there, waiting for me the minute I say I know who I am."

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The play Death of a Salesman written by Arthur Miller in 1949 is about loss of identity and inability to accept self change and society.

Biff, Willys son, comes to this revelation of what he wants to be in this world and where he will fit. He wants to follow his own dream despite his fathers belief that success comes from a promised job and the American dream.

Biff ignores the social standard of the American dream, that if you are not successful you have achieved nothing. He escapes this view and expectation to follow his own dream which is to live a nice simple life. He has found his true identity was was not corrupted to be someone he was not from pressure of the society and his father.

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Bright Lights Big City                "You get down on you knees and tear open the bag. The smell of the warm dough envelops you. The first bite sticks in your throat you almost gag. You will have to go slowly. You will have to learn everything all over again" 

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Bright Lights Big City                "You get down on you knees and tear open the bag. The smell of the warm dough envelops you. The first bite sticks in your throat you almost gag. You will have to go slowly. You will have to learn everything all over again" 

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Bright lights, Big City written by Jay McInerney in 1984 is a journey of a man relapsing into his old way of living and finding his way back.

Fresh bread shows up when he is reminiscing on the old days at the apartment he and Amanda lived. It also reminds his  of his mother making bread in the kitchen. Both times the narrator was happy and alive, he was on the right path.

Once both left he became lost and started to resort to drugs to help with the pain. The bread is a symbol of the stable life he used to have, where he wasn’t doing bad things and where he was the most accomplished.

This comes back at the end of the story when he gives up his sunglasses, which he used after he went out parting to had his ugly side, with a piece of bread. I think this means he is on the road to recovery for a better stable life, a new beginning. he has been found and realized he could be better then someone begging on the street for food.

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The Rudy Elmenhurst Story "So, Laura thinks. So the papers have cleared and we are leaving. Now everything she sees sharpens as if through the lens of loss - the orchids in their hanging straw baskets, the row of apothecary jars Carlos has found for her in old druggists' throughout the countryside, the rich light shafts swarming with a golden pollen. She will miss this glorious light warming the inside of her skint and jewelling the trees, the grass, the lily pond beyond the hedge."

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The Rudy Elmenhurst Story "So, Laura thinks. So the papers have cleared and we are leaving. Now everything she sees sharpens as if through the lens of loss - the orchids in their hanging straw baskets, the row of apothecary jars Carlos has found for her in old druggists' throughout the countryside, the rich light shafts swarming with a golden pollen. She will miss this glorious light warming the inside of her skint and jewelling the trees, the grass, the lily pond beyond the hedge."

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The Rudy Elmenhurst Story written by Julia Alvarez in 1991 tells a story about her adventures in high school and how she became the most craziest of her sisters.

Yolanda struggles with America and there standards, she compares it with her Dominican culture. she fears intimacy and charities her purity.

In the quote she comes to a realization that she will not stay in America forever and her whole perspective on the situation drastically changes.

She's not fit for America and there standards, she's preparing for her life after this chapter of her life. She feels more herself in the Dominican Republic and is forced to live up to the pressure of societal standards.