People not minding their own business
An important image which appears in "Matisse’’ is the way in which the narrator describes the world in general and their reaction when something worth talking takes place. The rest of the population, the onlookers, stand near the person who did something and try to understand and theorize the reason behind their actions. They criticize the person in question but are not interested in finding the truth from the person involved. Instead, they chose to make up their own mind about what happened and often reach various conclusions which are not true. This ends up affecting both the onlookers and the person who did the action which was criticized.
Women as gossipers
In "Idem the Same: A Valentine to Sherwood Anderson’’ the narrator presents an interesting image when it comes to women, namely presenting them as gossipers, people who do nothing else than sit around and talk to one another all day. This image is a denigrator one, having the purpose of discrediting everything women said and the way in which they acted. In ‘’ Idem the Same: A Valentine to Sherwood Anderson’’ the narrator presents an interesting image when it comes to women, namely presenting them as gossipers, people who do nothing else than sit around and talk to one another all day. This image is a denigrator one, having the purpose of discrediting everything women said and the way in which they acted.
Perfect life
In "A Little Called Pauline’’, the narrator describes what is in her opinion, the perfect life. The major character has, according to the narrator, a perfect life, away from the civilized world and in close contact with nature. Civilization is portrayed as something negative, toxic even, while life in the country side is portrayed as something which every person must wish for. Through this image, the narrator also wants to urge others to give up their comfortable life in the city and to embrace the traditional ways.
Nature as cold and impossible to study it
In "Study Nature’’, the narrator presents a common idea found in the world, namely how we, as humans, must do everything we can and look at nature to answer our every question. The narrator choses however to portray nature in a less than positive way, imagining it as a woman who is cold and unapproachable and who succeeds in scarring every person who comes in contact with it. This image is used in this case almost as an excuse, the narrator arguing through this image the reason why she did not wanted to learn from nature.
