Analyzing “The Diary of Adam and Eve”
Mark Twain’s piece, ‘The Diary of Adam and Eve’ is a well done and interesting group of short stories. Many people knew of it because Mark Twain wrote it in the year 1904, it was very late in his career and so people knew of him and knew that he was an accomplished writer. This story has a lot of meaning to it and can be taken in different ways. The critics of most of the reviews I read were written in the past ten to fifteen years. The author of one of the review talked about how Twain relates Adam and Eve to a common married couple. The author talks about Twain making this short piece and putting in a lot of emotion and pleasure. The reactions of the short stories are towards the ideas of Adam and Eve and what they are supposed to…show more content… One part of the article also talks about how human and relatable Twain managed to make the characters in his short piece. “Eve and Adam couldn’t be more different. Adam is a lazy lunkhead who’s perfectly happy to live and not question anything. Eve, however, is scientific and considers herself “an experiment” placed on Earth by an unknown force. She pursues Adam with vigor, following him around the garden and thwarting his attempts to escape from her”. Twain gave these characters’ stereotypical traits to target the average man and women, for example Adam being simple minded and not fully understanding the point of having a significant other and being confused by the child they have and not even knowing that it is a child. While Eve thought of herself as an “experiment”. From the beginning of the story she is more creative and
