“Mr. Flood’s Party,” a poem by Edward Arlington Robinson, portrays a character that thoroughly illustrates the life and qualities of an individual living in Tillbury Town. Shown through his severe loneliness, negativity, drunkenness, and depression; Mr. Flood lives his life with the mindset that dying is his only goal, making no attempt to accomplish anything in his life.
Mr.Flood’s negativity plays a key role in his stereotype of a Tillbury townsman. He exemplifies the qualities of a pessimist, always looking at the drawbacks in a situation, living with a “the glass is half empty” sort of view. Referring to the harvest moon, he comments that, “we may not have many more”.
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