Part one of term paper
In the Human Comedy by William Saroyan, Mrs. Macauley, an intelligent mother of four in Ithaca, California, states, “If a man has not wept at the world’s pain he is only half a man, and there will always be pain in the world.”(p.131) People are different in many ways but how people deal with pain gives the world an insight ...

Part two of term paper
... cannot deal with it. “The poor unfortunate evil man will drive pain deeper into things and spread it about wherever he goes,” (p.131) is how Mrs. Macauley describes the person who tries to contain pain. When Mr. Spangler, the telegraph office owner, was alone, John Strickman tried to rob the telegraph office because he was down on his luck and there was a war going on so he thought it didn’t matter if he or Mr. Spangler died in the holdup. He believed that stealing the ...