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Mar 19, 2016 · For reasons not yet explained, Walter suddenly left Gretchen during a vacation with her family, leaving her and his research behind ("Peekaboo"). Further details were then hinted at during the season 5 episode ("Buyout"), when Walter discussed leaving Gray Matter with Jesse.
- The question is answered very well here in an AMC blog posting an interview with the actress who played Gretchen: Q: What’s it like have Bryan Cran...
- The exact reasons surrounding Walter leaving Gray Matter were never covered during show's run. The only in-show information to go on is from the Br...
- According to show creator Vince Gilligan and co-showrunner Peter Gould in a new interview with The Huffington Post : The real reason White left Gra...
- Walt and Gretchen were an item. Elliot teams up with them to start Gray Matter. Gretchen cheats on Walt with Elliot. Heartbroken and betrayed, Walt...
- Walt felt that Elliot and Gretchen betrayed him, that they were "artfully maneuvering [him] into leaving [his] own creation." In the series finale...
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It is difficult to tie one meaning to ‘The Waste Land‘. Ultimately, the poem itself is about culture: the celebration of culture, the death of culture, and the misery of being learned in a world that has largely forgotten its roots. Eliot wrote it as a eulogyto the culture that he considered to be dead; at a time when dancing, music, jazz, and othe...
Part One: Stanza One
Immediately, the poem starts with the recurring imagery of death: ‘April is the cruelest month, breeding / Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing / Memory and desire, stirring / Dull roots with spring rain.’ Note the cadence of every –ing ending to the sentence, giving it a breathless, uneven sort of reading: when one reads it, there is a quick-slow paceto it that invites the reader to linger over the words. The use of the word ‘winter’ provides an oxymoronic idea: the idea that cold and death c...
Stanza Two
Here is another of Eliot’s allusions, ‘son of man/ you cannot say or guess’, which is directly lifted from The Call of Ezekiel in the ‘Book of Ezekiel’. The religious allusion could be considered a response to the vast technological advancements of the time, where science was taking great leaps; however, the spiritual and cultural sectors of the world were desolate. ‘A heap of broken images’ shows the fragmented nature of the world and the snapshots of what the world has become to further pin...
Stanza Three
Cleanth Brooks writes: “The fortune-telling of “The Burial of the Dead” will illustrate the general method very satisfactorily. On the surface of the poem the poet reproduces the patter of the charlatan, Madame Sosostris, and there is the surface irony: the contrast between the original use of the Tarot cards and the use made by Madame Sosostris. But each of the details (justified realistically in the palaver of the fortune-teller) assumes a new meaning in the general context of the poem. The...
From the Modernism Lab at Yale University: “Eliot’s Waste Land is I think the justification of the ‘movement,’ of our modern experiment, since 1900,” wrote Ezra Pound shortly after the poem was published in 1922. T.S. Eliot’s poem describes a mood of deep disillusionment stemming both from the collective experience of the first world war and from E...
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Aug 5, 2020 · On April 19, 1934, Eliot Ness turned thirty-one amid the wreckage of a once promising, even heralded career. Eight years earlier, not long out of college, Ness had taken his oath of office as a Prohibition agent, swearing to battle the bootleggers ruling his hometown.
Jul 4, 2020 · He has been until now present virtually without cease, after all, even if only as a sorry murmur from time to time since the second stanza of “The Burial of the Dead,” so why should he suddenly disappear from the scene at just this juncture?
Aug 8, 2018 · As he does this, the focus is pulled from Billy’s face to the dads as he walks off, belittling everything that Billy has just expressed. The scene finishes with a tracking shot of Billy’s father walking away angrily as Billy chases after him.
After practice, the boxing coach tells him he cannot leave the gym until he's punched the bag properly, giving him the keys to give to the dance instructor when he's finished. Billy watches as the pianist plays for the ballet class, punching the bag in time to the ballet instructor's orders.
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