It is years later and I can still remember my first visit to Lou's Cafe. Stopping in to see if anyone could tell us where to locate the turn we had missed, my dad and I received a large dose of culture shock. It seemed as if we had opened the door to a place where time stood still.
Miss Lou Dixon owns and runs that restaurant in the middle of Small Town, USA. Miss Lou has been in business at that location since 1954. Even though the place looks a little squalid, it is not for lack of care; in fact, Lou is proud of how clean she keeps her place. She has often been heard to say, with the strongest East Tennessee accent, "It don't matter how pore a body is. They can be clean." She is proud of her "A"
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When entering the main dining room, whether by design or by custom, there is a definite pecking order involved in the seating arrangements. The first table on the left, presided over by an elderly gentleman with Basset Hound eyes, belongs to the old men of the town. The table sits in front of one of two large windows; the old men can see and are able to comment on the "doins of them young 'uns running the town these days." It is amusing to discover that the average age of the people under discussion is at least fifty and they took over their businesses from the same old men looking over them now.
On the right side, the other large window is dominated by the "women's information league." In other towns they would be known as busybodies or gossips. At Lou's, they are part of the complicated information gathering process. They bring all the information from the night before and are linked to the rest of the town through the old fashioned rotary telephone hanging outside Lou's kitchen door. The phone rings constantly: someone wants to call
In addition, Louise’s desire for attention affects how she acts at school and at the Flamingo. On her first day at school, she asked her teacher “is this where I sit?” (38) even though her teacher clearly stated that seconds ago. She did this not only to draw the embarrassment away but to show something else, her figure. At school, she is considered one of the most popular girls in school because she has “breasts” (38); the figure of a mature woman. Also, Louise works the concession stand, which is located in the middle of the Flamingo. The concession stand is the place where everyone goes to buy food, drinks, and basically anything one can get at a movie theatre. Since this is located in the middle of the Flamingo, there is a lot of attention there. And who works there? Louise does! It can be seen that Louise wants to be the center of attention.
Creamy carrion, pizza barf, decomposing lemon wedges, and water-logged toast crusts; sounds like the typical garbage can. Would anyone believe that these phrases apply to a run-down restaurant in the middle of Florida? Barbara Ehrenreich goes undercover at a local fast food diner known as Jerry’s to investigate life as a blue-collar laborer, serving to customers arriving in “human waves” (Ehrenreich 180). It is throughout her journey working for both Jerry’s and a factory known as Hearthside that she learns the difficulties faced with minimum wage and severe working conditions, and how the career you pursue and the environment that the career puts you in can change you. Through the
The younger waiter believes he has “no regard for those who have to work.” On the contrary the older waiter also doesn’t belong to a family and attempts to explain “he stays up because he likes it” “it’s clean and well lighted” the light acting as a metaphorical parallel to the comfort the café offers in his otherwise dark life. Seeing as the older waiter understands him he does his best to make the customer feel he belongs and build a relationship with him. He realises that not everyone shares the same perspective realising “it’s not only a question of youth” but in this case a question of lack of relationships allowing sympathy and explaining his actions.
There is an apparent unity seen between the old man and the older waiter. Opposite from the young waiter, the older waiter and old man seem devastatingly lonely and worn out by life. While the young waiter is rude and insistently talks down to the old man, the older waiter defends him. He too understands and appreciates a clean, well-lighted café opposed to a bar or bodega. The older men understand each other without there being any communication between them. In the final line the reader is able to truly understand the older waiters view of his own morality, “He disliked bars and bodegas. A clean, well-lighted café was a very different thing. Now, without thinking further, he went home to his room. He would lie in the bed and finally,
At a nearby table there’s always a couple in their late seventies, holding their menus with trembling, spotted hands. “Soups a good thing,” the wife will say, and the man will nod or grunt or fool with the stem of his wineglass. Eventually he’ll look my way, and I’ll catch in his eye a look of grim recognition. We are your future, he seems to say.” - Page 234, Old Faithful
The next day my dad, early in the morning, took me out of the Hotel to the French Quarter. He told me we were going to Cafe Du Monde and it was a famous Cafe. We only walked a couple blocks past some other hotels and parking lots, and then the Quarter. We got to a park where there were multiple street artists painting and then you could see Cafe Du Monde. It had a building where the massive kitchen was and some seating inside, but then their was a huge overhang that went
"The Landlady" is a chilling short story written by Roald Dahl. As Billy steps through the door of what he assumed looked like any ordinary bed and breakfast in an unfamiliar town he had no idea of what he was getting himself into. Dahl creates a sense of foreboding in "The LandLady" by implying that there is something more disturbing behind the lady's innocent smile. When one good thing piles on top of the other everything starts to become to good to be true. Seventeen year old Billy was on his way to a nearby pub before coming across the bed and breakfast that had captured his eyes.
The family use their house as a status symbol and have decorated it in a way so as to reflect their wealth. We learn this from the 'few imposing but tasteless pictures' which will probably have been chosen because they were expensive, not because they were liked. These pictures also tell us that the Birlings are proud of their wealth and think themselves to be very important but lack the good taste which is present in those who are socially superior to them. The house is described as being 'substantial and comfortable and old-fashioned, but not cosy and homelike.' This setting suggests that the family are uncomfortable with each other and therefore suggests problems. They speak to each other in a fairly relaxed manner, despite the attempts from Mrs. Birling to enforce a more formal atmosphere by correcting her family whenever they make minor errors in table manners. The champagne shows that family are joined to celebrate. Gerald is a guest at the house and so the family are all well-behaved and pleasant to one another but there are several hints that this is for show and there are problems which are being ignored. Mrs. Birling treats Eric and Sheila as if they are two small children even though Sheila is engaged to Gerald and so is a young woman. This is shown when Sheila refers to Eric as 'squiffy' and Mrs. Birling scolds her by saying 'What and expression,
Though miles from home, the convenience, homey ambience, and delicious, home-style cooking I experienced at Boston’s Hidden Mana made my meal there the best that I have encountered outside the bounds of my mother’s kitchen. The positive experience began with easily finding and entering the restaurant. My family and I found the restaurant easily in a familiar neighborhood, and only a block over from my father’s old medical school apartment. Though we anticipated that parking in a city such as Boston would be a hassle, my father, much to our relief, quickly found a spot only the street over from the restaurant. An even greater relief, as I was using a walker then, was that the restaurant’s entryway and interior were both at street level. Once
Breathe in. Breathe out. Take in the air, the bite of the wind, rush of cars and gaze up at the skyscrapers above. For some, Chicago is just another location, a point on the map, but for me it has a special place in my heart, due to the weather, its stunning beauty and the way it gives me a sense of belonging.
Behind the men in a subservient position are two ladies. One is Mrs. Hale, the neighbor's wife who is large and "comfortable looking" and Mrs. Peters, the Sheriff's wife, who is "thin and wiry with a thin, nervous face". Mrs. Peters enters ahead of Mrs. Hale, but both women hang back near the door, while the men go directly to the stove and make a show of warming themselves. In these scene directions, Mrs. Glaspell has already made the reader see a cheerless place to live, cold weather and a culture of women in the background.
We all know the big city that everyone loves to talk about and be a part of the experience of a lifetime which is Los Angeles, also known as L.A. It is one of the most known cities in California and around the world where people’s dreams come true. L.A. is best known for its beaches, entertainment, amusements, and the people around the city. It’s also known as “The City of Angels”, which is the spanish word for “Angeles”. It is the second most populous city in the United States after New York. I’ve always known L.A. as a big part of my life, being born in the city of luxury and fame. Growing up, I never knew how much of a big deal LA was until I was in high school. Being around so much popularity and seeing the opportunities that LA has brought to people was amazing to me. From the sports games, to the concerts, to the famous celebrities walking the red carpets brung so much excitement to me and I was glad to experience all of it.
In the small town of Charleston, an older, lonely man sits at the bar in a Diner. A young couple sat at the other end drinking coffee. The woman was dressed nice in a pretty red dress and the man looking dapper with his blue suit and hat. The older man is a regular at this diner. He arrives at the same time, sits on the same stool, and is always dressed nice as if he were about to meet someone. He never did though. The waiter knows the older man by name and says, "Hey Hopper, anything new today or just the same old, same old?" whenever he would walk in. Hopper would just shrug his shoulders as usual and sit on his stool. He looks at the couple at the end of the bar and nods, while waiting for the waiter to get him his
The older waiter, empathizing with the old man, grabs the bottle of brandy and pours a full glass for the old man. This, again, reflects the respect that the older waiter has for the old man. This is the first real hint that the older waiter has a lot in common
On Saturday February 18th, I visited World Cafe Live in Philadelphia with Matt Gregar. It would be an understatement to say that the experience was interesting. We decided to leave at 3:15 p.m. since the venue was estimated to be only about half an hour away from our departure point, and we wanted to arrive just before the 4 p.m. call time. Unfortunately for us, something happened in center city that caused a major road to close. We sat in traffic for almost two hours before arriving just after five o’clock.