The correct answer is Rigid and narrow-minded.
Indeed, Mr. Gradgrind is a firm and adamant proponent of Utilitarianism a philosophical doctrine that expresses that the highest ideal is utility and that all actions aim to the accomplishment of such ideal. Notions like beauty, leisure and other abstract concepts are not considered “useful”, they lack utility and thus are considered as a waste of time.
Dickens used this character as a representative of the way Industrial, Victorian England broke or ground the souls of people and in this particular case, children.
I believe it would be good, (I'm not 100% sure) but i think it's good because good fits that description and sounds better. Hopefully you get an A+ :) if not, sorry:(
You can answer man i will not take your thunder
In "The Slump," John Updike uses the national pastime, baseball, as the setting to explore one individual's frustration with the world. The story is told by a professional ballplayer who finds himself, for no identifiable reason, unable to hit as well as he once did. He thinks about why this might be, but not very deeply; for the most part, he accepts this slump as his fate and considers what it says about life in general. The story depicts the superstitious nature of athletes in the way that its narrator hopes for better days without having any hope that anything he can do would make his luck return.
