Tomorrow and Tomorrow and So Forth (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: John Updike
- First Published: 1955
- Type of Plot: Social realism
- Time of Work: The 1950's
- Setting: An American high school
- Principal Characters: Mark Prosser, Gloria Angstrom, Peter Forrester, Geoffrey Langer, Strunk
- Genres: Social realism, Short fiction
- Subjects: Teaching or teachers, Perception, Students or student life, Immaturity
- Locales: United States
The Story
The lesson for the day in Mark Prosser's English classroom is Macbeth's soliloquy on hearing of Lady Macbeth's death:
Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time,
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour on the stage
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of...
[The entire page is 1378 words long]
See Also:
John Updike (Cyclopedia of World Authors)John Updike (Poetry)John Updike (Short Fiction)John Updike (Long Fiction)John Updike (Identities and Issues)John Updike (Sixties in America)Theory of Short Fiction (Topical Overview--Short Fiction)
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