Ms. Forsythe's Telephone Case Summary

Rawson describes how important the telephone is by telling us all the events that unfold because of it like being invited to Gatsby’s parties and Nick and Gatsby’s business and many more.

Instinctively, Kate reached into her jacket pocket and read the message on her phone, informing her that her phone had only enough battery life to make one call. Immedialtely, Kate knew who that call would go to, she dialed the numbers praying that they would pick up...

From the time they all got in the car to the time they got out, all the grandmother did was talk. She was trying to talk her way to Tennessee and she talked her way into them detouring to go see some house that the grandmother

Turning off the TV, Andrew grabbed his keys and rushed to the garage, angry for not being more cautious. Driving down the street as fast as he could to get to the cleaners, he said, “I wonder if Margaret has her phone. I will call it,” he said, pushing the buttons, he waited, and said, “Oh, no; it went directly to voice mail. She must have turned it off, but why would she do that?”

Bliss introduces her essay with some historical background of Alexander Graham Bell’s invention of the telephone to begin with her thoughts of the telephone throughout the essay. Bell’s financial backers advised him not to work on the invention, as it seemed too doubtful,

Turkle explains that adults flee the telephone because they are busy, and don’t want to give their “full attention” (375). She brings Tara, a fifty-five year old woman, into the view. Tara avoids the telephone because calls seem “urgent”, Turkle explains, “She wants to meet

At 10:15 p.m. on 22nd December, John Livingston was halfway to the door, for his shift had ended, when a phone rang behind him. ‘One last call,’ he thought. Instinctively, he rushed back to his station.

Brock continues to explain how “The average man thinks, Here I am, time on my hands, and there on my wrist is a wrist telephone” (21-23), and so if such a device like that the wrist telephone, tempts a person, and that person does not have the will to refrain from making pointless calls with it, then said person should just get rid of it

In the 19th century it was an expectation that women would be docile and amenable to everyone. Men or boys at this time had the option to go find work elsewhere if the rules and expectations that were placed in the customer service did not fit with what they wanted. Women on the other hand were significantly more constricted with their work options. The expectations of women at this time were left to domestic duties, rarely did the opportunity arise for actual work. (Mitchell) Working for the telephone company as operators was this opportunity for women to break out of that expectations of Hegemonic Femininity.

She worries whether these new ways of communication are weakening intimacy. At the beginning of the article, she writes that "so many people hate the telephone" (373). People now do not call but instead they text. She states that people love text messaging over calling because "when you can think about what you're going to say, you can talk to someone you'd have trouble talking to. And it doesn't seem weird that you

The Voice first appears at the beginning of The Receptionist with the first canto “The First Transmission.” Here, The Voice is only just getting Edna’s attention. It is not until after Edna has her own small rebellion—not answering the phone as she is expected—that she hears The Voice.

At the above attempt, the Appellant’s voicemail service was reached, but it was too full to leave a message.

Symone has started to take the lazy route with following the scripting & protocols with attempting to capture the NAPE. She has a pleasant tone and she is kind with the callers, but all at the cost of not attempting to properly document the calls. It also appears that Symone does this at an average of 4 times a day and this is shown in the screenshot attached. Symone needs to work attempting the NAPE process prior to giving out information, using the phonetic spelling with the provided letters, capturing accurate station information, and following the scripts that have been provided.

Not another sound is heard from the other end of the phone aside a small gasp and a few gentle, shaking breaths, before the blaring beep signals that the caller has just hung up.

Knowledge of this underwrote his failure to rev her up more often. He rationalized this way: that it doomed her, that to activate her constituted a sin against her. As to her own stated wishes, before her death and in early half-life encounters - this had become handily nebulous in his mind. Anyway, he would know better, being four times as old as she. What had she wished? To continue to function with him as co-owner of Runciter Associates; something vague on that order. Well, he had granted this wish. Now, for example. And six or seven times in the past. He did consult her at each crisis of the organization. He was doing so at this moment.