The Tooth by Clara Spencer

As Laurel K. Hamilton once said, "Death is the closest thing we have ever done." It happens in different ways and at different times, but death comes from all of us. In the novel "Awakening" by Kate Chopin, Edna faces great heartache and despair. This is in line with Shirley Jackson's two short stories "Teeth and Lottery." Both stories have personality that they encountered their deaths at unexpected moments in their lives, but the situation is quite different.

Clara Binse, the hero of the "teeth", escaped her suppression of her family life, which is suppression represented by toothache that has plagued her since her encounter with her husband. When Clara went to New York City to get rid of her teeth, the journey moved her away from home and away from her family's identity. Contrary to her real and naked husband, a fleeting stranger, like a dream, approached Clara by her narcotic coma and offered to take him to the Utopia "even Pisa Maracon" (Magic 124). There, it means that she may be living a self-centered life to pursue happiness by forgetting her family's duties. At the end of the story, Clara suggested that she fled to the paradise of tropical freedom of love and replaced the strict, open individualism of marriage to replace orderly integration, "through the hot sand "(Magic 136)

In the Nutcracker, a girl named Clara gave her magical Nutcracker doll to her godfather Drosselmyer at Christmas Eve. Clara likes the Nutcracker the most, but soon her older brother licks the toy and breaks it. Clara was angry and Drosselmyer gently comforted the girl while sleeping. But that night, Clara slipped secretly from the bed to check her precious Nutcracker, but it was caught by Drosselmeier himself. When his black cloak shook, the room began to grow, and with her precious Nutcracker and Rat king he had to fight to keep Clara safe. When Clara was thrown aside, the battle between the mouse and the toy began in front of them, while Delozmere saw it from above his father's watch.

Clara could not sleep, climbed downstairs, and finally saw her Nutcracker. She fell asleep with a sofa in a Nutcracker doll. Clara woke up with a special voice saying that she awaked and rustled. The Christmas tree glows again as it gets bigger. All toys, including Clara's Walnut split dolls, are already brilliant. Suddenly the mouse invaded the room, took away and tried to loot. Under the guidance of a terrible rat, the rat began attacking the doll. The dolls retaliated under the guidance of the Nutcracker, but they could not resist their enemies. The Nutcracker was not hurt and was struggling with Rat King. He seems to have failed when Clara threw slippers to Rat king. This distracted the king of Rat, allowing the Nutcracker to make the last blow to Rat King. Rats dotted, toys are saved. The Nutcracker thanked Clara and became a Drosselmeyer dice. He took Clara to the palace!