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"Dr. Heidegger's Experiment:" Story Analysis

 Nathaniel Hawthorne

Nathanial Hawthorne born 1804 , passed away 1864. Born in Salem, Massachusetts. Started writing short stories then began to write novels. His best known novel is The Scarlet Letter. Hawthorne is famous around the world and without doubt one of Americas's greatest writers.

Story Summary 

The story takes place in the house of Dr.Heidegger . He wants to try out an experiment so therefore he invites four friends to help him with it. These four friends are all known to each other and are elderly people.The experiment consists in each of them drinking water from the " fountain of youth " that Dr.Heidegger has received from a friend. He shows them first what the watter does to the rose and then desperetly they all start drinking from the water , as they drink it they start to get young again , but with little time they all go back to how they looked before. 

Plot Analysis

  

Plot for dr.heidenggers experiment. from grecha92

  Character Analysis 

Dr.Heidegger- Strange but Focused man.This doctor invites four friends to an experiment he wants to realize. He is an intelligent and observing man.

 

Mr.Medbourne- Old bearded gentleman. Once a richman turned poor because of greedyness, he made a couple of bad business deals and lost his fortune due to it . Now he begs for money to stay alive.

 

Mr. Gascon - Old bearded gentleman. Once a famouse politican , but because of dishonesty and theft he was sent to jail. Now he was poor and lived in shame.

 

 

Colonel Kllingrew - Old bearded gentleman. Once a great soldier , but spent his life alwaysing eating and drinking too much. Now his health was pretty bad and spent most of his time sick.

 

 

Widow Wycherly - She was once quite beautiful , but so very conceited. Always thinking she was the most beautiful woman in town. She now is not beautiful at all.

"Three Hundred Pesos " Story Analysis

Biography
Manuela Williams Crosno (1905-1977) For most of her life she lived in New Mexico. She loved that state very much, and used it most of the times as settings for her book. Manuela Williams Crosno usually wrote about Spanish settlers who lived on that land more than one hundred years ago. She taught English for many years. She was also a poet and an artist , she won a first prize writing contest in her state with her article " Why I Teach School ".

 "Three Hundred Pesos " story summary :
 The short story "300 Pesos" is about a family which consists of 2 brothers and a sister who are farmers. They are all hardworking folks , except for one mayor detail in one of the brothers Anastacio. Anastacio is a very greedy and miser person who only wants to earn money in order to open his own shop. The other brother and sister Emilio en Berta understand the situation with Anastacio and are very sad about it because they feel like the have lost their brother. Both Emilio and Berta in different moments of the story ask Anastacio for money in order to buy or pay for important things , both times he refuses to give money , because of this he faces several difficulties in order to get the money needed to open his own shop. At the end Anastacio does get the "300 pesos " but he dies in an accident and the money is used for his funeral.

Plot Analysis 

300 pesos plot from grecha92

Characterization-

Main Characters

Emilio- Emilio is a man of not a lot of age I would say around mid 30s. He works at the fields , has a child and wife. This man is a caring man a compassionate man and of course a family man.

Anastacio- This character is younger than Emilio I presume, and also works at the fields. His goal in life is to have his own shop to accomplish this he would let his family members starve. He gives no money and spends no money all to be able to buy his shop. He is without question a miser man and does not want anything to do with people in order to accomplish his goal at getting his shop.

Berta- Berta is the Sister of the two . Age or physical traits are not really mentioned , but she must be the oldest due to her understanding attitude toward both Emilio and Anastacio. She is a caring person as well and also married , but with no kids.

Secundary Characters

Pedro – This character is the son of Emilio who is sick. There is a moment in the story where Emilio asks Anastacio for one peso in order to buy medicine for him.

Traveler – This man appears at the end of the story where he crashes with Anastacio’s carriage. He appears to be a wealthy man because his carriage is horseless and he agrees to pay the 50 pesos to Anastacio for the Pinto beans with no hesitation.