Analysis of ‘‘The Lifeguard’’ by Mary Morris Essay

The Lifeguard by Mary Morris is a lilliputian story that focusses on change over term. A lifeguard habitual to be the lord of every(a) he surveys and with a big self-esteem, has a rude awakening when he proves deficient in the first assistance needed to save a toddler, Becky, on the beach. The author demonstrates that we realise what we postulate merely when a shattering event occurs. Trough imageization, foreshadowing and symbolism, Morris infers that once we realise what we have, its too late.The character outlook of what he sees has clearly changed from the beginning to the end of the story. At first, the lifeguard saw the beach barely as a instruction of being seen and appreciated by the girls and envied by the other man. He was narcissistic, Girls clung to my stand, and I could do no wrong (p.98) and the way he was always tal fag about how much he love his body, and it make him doze off the real reason why he was at the beach. He wanted to be admired by people on the beach. But when a child almost died in his arm because he was not re wholey aware of what was going on near him and his folly to save Becky started to bother him. So he went to Mrs. Lovenheims house, where he completed something profound on the emptiness of his live. He thought he had all what he wanted, but the most important was missing, true love.This reality changed his acquaintance of life as he said Ive never seen the pissing and the umbrellas of summer in the same way again (p.105). Mrs. Lovenheim made him flux into despair as she left him at the doorstep, him, the lifeguard who had a awesome self-confidence. Ric Spencer acted as a foreshadowing character. He clearly missed the time where he was lifeguard. As soon as he could, he was going close to rag to talk about the old time when he apply to be lifeguard. Ric often gave advices to Josh to always be copeful, because only a split second of distraction and a painful event, kindred the drowning of Billy Mandel , can happens. Ric was always there to tell the principal character You dont know what youve got, You dont know how prospered you are (p.101), because the older man realised the chance he had to be lifeguard and because it is at about the age of Josh that he could choose a job he would have love more. So he is often telling Josh to have sex while staying careful, because he knows you wont always have the perfect job and that an accident has bad consequence. When Becky almostdied, it completely gave full meaning to Rics words. It is as if Josh hit a wall. This has ruined his summer. He should have listened to many advices accustomed by his former lifeguard instead of laughing of him.Mrs. Lovenheim was represented as a symbol high-performanceity of finishedout the story. As it progresses, he kept on talking about how Mrs. Lovenheim was always looking at him. It made him proud otherwise he would not have talked about her all along the story. For him, the fact that this women was looking at him was a proof that he was admired by other people on the beach, that he was superior to people around him. But when the savior of Becky did not recognized It dead occurred to me that she had no idea who I was, that shed never really seen me at all. So he thought he was the real king of the beach, but this made him realised he had all wrong. Maybe all what he saw was wrong, whitethornbe all he described was false. Therefore, what he had interpreted for granted was no longer what it was the day before. He may have to consider everything under another perspective. But the point is that Mrs. Lovenheim was used to be the symbol of admiration he wanted, but as he saw she barely knew him, his world rocked.In conclusion, Mary Morris displays that we must enjoy what we have while we have it, because if we lose it, it can be on your mind for long time, and you may regret not to have taken good times out of it. The author has been able to illustrate it through his usage of charac terization, foreshadowing and symbolism. The author showed why it is important to take care of what we have, because a little nothing can make us lose it all.