The Routine Hidden from Reality

The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines occasion as of a commonplace or repetitious character; of, relating to, or being in ossification with established procedure. People draw a routine without intimacy of doing so, this whitethorn because they wish to distract their past experiences and memories. Some may want to avoid the fact that they are lonely. People may establish routines to keep their heads in a fantasy because they adoptt want to consecrate reality. In the short stories, passs Home by Ernest Hemingway, Miss Brill by Katherine Mansfield, and the short-short story Fingers by Gary Gildner, characters learn routines in their passing(a) lives for many a(prenominal) reasons, whether it may be to immobilize something, or to avoid a fact of life.\nIn Fingers by Gary Gildner, the main character Ronald Lacey, is write as a fell returning from war. Returning from the Vietnam contend has put Ronald in a blur. Every day he simply goes through the actions of life. Ronal ds routine involves wearing his senile high-school baseb any cap and passing play outside and holding baskets all day. The fact that Ronald chooses to shoot baskets every day, and all day, symbolizes that he likes to pick up that control to bounce the basketball, shoot it, and k flat that he enkindle do it again and again. He has the control of the ball. Finally this routine changes when his father questions him about what hes going to do with the money hes saved. With the money, Ronald buys a car; to tally to his daily routine. His routine evolves to now driving the Hudson Hornet back and off through town and alone stopping for a origination beer (Gildner 100-101). Ronald acts distracted in his daily activities, this is seen when his new car blows a flat fag out. To solve this, Ronald locks the car, and puts his flip out in the air, to hitchhike to his bordering destination. When a flat tire happens, usually people spend the money to fix the tire because a tire and co sts a subatomic fraction compared...