https://padlet.com/rsowens/4fv57h5st0fa Made with mad skills.... en-us 2016-08-05 21:45:26 UTC 2017-05-17 04:16:19 UTC hello@padlet.com http://www.quickanddirtytips.com/sites/default/files/styles/insert_large/public/images/7123/SAT_Essay.jpg?itok=nq2y09Gh https://padlet.com/rsowens/4fv57h5st0fa/wish/117805630 The narrator views McTeague's "success" as how many would consider being unfortunate. It is in this light that McTeague is shown for his humility. The narrator mentions at the opening of McTeague's Dental Parlors that McTeague "felt that his life was a success, that he could hope for nothing better." While considered a success, McTeague's home has but one room, a washstand, an operating room with dental instruments, and "exhaled a mingled odor of bedding, creosote, and ether."  This is clear evidence of McTeague's lack of hygiene and his awkwardness. Although McTeague has overcome his brutish appearance and gathered a small clientele, his qualifications as a dentist are called into question. Much of the imagery painted by the narrator describes McTeague as poor and unhygenic, yet riddled across his home are volumes of books on the "American System of Dentitistry." The purpose behind this imagery is to depict McTeague as an ambitious man looking to overcome his stupidity.]]> 2016-08-09 15:42:44 UTC https://padlet.com/rsowens/4fv57h5st0fa/wish/117805630 https://padlet.com/rsowens/4fv57h5st0fa/wish/118013957 Later in the passage, the narrator illustrates McTeague is content with his business, even though he trivializes his dreams. It is evident that McTeague feels satisfaction in opening his Parlor when the narrator states that “he felt that his life was a success, that he could hope nothing better.” This reveals McTeague’s as an ambitious character. The parlor may only be described as “but one room,” but to McTeague it was a wise investment that he values greatly. Despite McTeague’s happiness, the narrator brings light to the fact that its “nothing.” He goes on to point out that “it was a corner room… [that] McTeague made do for a bedroom…” and furnished with dental instruments, bargained chairs, and a “steel engraving of the court of Lorenzo de’ Medici…”, a family known for their cruelty. This imagery adds onto an already established attitude of unprofessionalism and imprudence exhibited by McTeague which the narrator belittles. 

]]> 2016-08-11 14:48:54 UTC https://padlet.com/rsowens/4fv57h5st0fa/wish/118013957 https://padlet.com/rsowens/4fv57h5st0fa/wish/118015144 Throughout the second section of the passage, the narrator describes McTeague’s housing and social class. While the narrator understands the accomplishment of opening a new business, he is skeptical of McTeague’s surroundings. The mix of “bedding, creosote, and ether” makes the place “exhale” a “mingled odor.” The description personifies the smell and demonstrates how it caught the narrator’s attention in a bad way, as the concoction of smells together would not be pleasant. The narrator describes his poverty level by disliking how McTeague bought a “steel engraving of the court of Lorenzo de’ Medici” because he felt that the “great many figures” justified money. Although poor and living in his office, McTeague still acquires volumes of dentistry books, such as, “The American System of Dentistry.” By obtaining these books, the narrator admires McTeague’s passion for dentistry. The narrator continues approve how McTeague uses his money to buy things that are important to him. This is shown by the fact that he shops at “second-hand store[s],” but owns a corner filled with “seven volumes of ‘Allen’s Practical Dentist.’” The narrator believes McTeague has good intentions, but still can’t find a way to like him. ]]> 2016-08-11 14:56:35 UTC https://padlet.com/rsowens/4fv57h5st0fa/wish/118015144 https://padlet.com/rsowens/4fv57h5st0fa/wish/118016487 Continuing to the second section of the passage, the narrator describes in detail McTeague’s unprofessional work setting. His dentistry is named “Dental Parlors” despite it only being one room above a branch post office. He lives in the office by sleeping on a bed-lounge that is against the wall opposite the window. The narrator also describes the large amounts of bird seed for McTeague’s canary. This description implies that his business office is more of a home, which should be separate from work. The narrator believes it to be clustered, with “a mingled odor of bedding” that exudes private life and not professional life. In addition, the exceeding depiction from the narrator on the lack of space suggests that he does not have much success, otherwise he would have a larger office. Another frequent theme is the appearance of various of objects that have a contradictory or completely random involvement in the setting such as the steel engraving of the Lorenzo  de’ Medici, who is known for his cruelty, or the rifle calendar and stone pug which contributes to the clustered notion as well as the unprofessionalism that was aforementioned. 

]]> 2016-08-11 15:05:52 UTC https://padlet.com/rsowens/4fv57h5st0fa/wish/118016487 https://padlet.com/rsowens/4fv57h5st0fa/wish/118017091 In the second paragraph, the narrators speak of McTeague’s hope and ambition for dentistry he attempts to justify his acquisitions of McTeagues humble life, sleeping in his office since he has no bedroom and his lack of understanding hanging a Medici portrait in his dentist office; although the narrator spoke of him as second hand and cheap McTeague’s happiness was still intact and as well had strong ambition to what he wanted to do. The narrator criticizes McTeague’s lack of professionalism by stating “The whole place exhaled a mingled odor for bedding, creosote, and ether.” 

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