When meeting people for the first time, one cannot help but want to make a positive impression. The short story "The Rejected One" by Morely Callahghan tells of a young man named Karl, who is on the verge of introducing his new girlfriend to his family. Through the tale Callaghan illustrates the distress felt buy his family members, himself and by his new love prospect. Callaghan imparts this common situation in order to demonstrate mankinds common fault, which is prejudging people based on their physical appearance. Callaghan further goes on to describe some of the emotions felt by individuals in...
his usage of intense diction, he brought the reader to become centered on those words and made them contemplate the usage of them. Callaghan's use of imagery helped the reader to imagine the situation and therefore relate more to the story.

This passage exhibits many different states of emotion and opinions. The feeling of this passage is cold, rigid and intolerant, much like the setting, which is on a winter evening. One can try as hard as they want in order make a positive impression; but if the other party is close-minded and unaccommodating, then their effort is lost.