- All's Well That Ends Well
- Antony and Cleopatra
- As You Like It
- The Comedy of Errors
- Coriolanus
- Cymbeline
- Hamlet
- Henry IV, Part 1
- Henry IV, Part 2
- Henry V
- Henry VI, Part 1
- Henry VI, Part 2
- Henry VI, Part 3
- Henry VIII
- Julius Caesar
- King John
- King Lear
- Love's Labor's Lost
- A Lover's Complaint
- Macbeth
- Measure for Measure
- The Merchant of Venice
- The Merry Wives of Windsor
- A Midsummer Night's Dream
- Much Ado About Nothing
- Othello
- Pericles
- The Rape of Lucrece
- Richard II
- Richard III
- Romeo and Juliet
- Shakespeare's Sonnets
- The Taming of the Shrew
- The Tempest
- Timon of Athens
- Titus Andronicus
- Troilus and Cressida
- Twelfth Night
- The Two Gentlemen of Verona
- Venus and Adonis
- The Winter's Tale
In this quotation, the narrator concludes that the right decision is to leave John with his grandparents, friends, and community in Newfoundland, rather than take him away to the Midwest—“the land of the Tastee Freeze”—and attempt to resolve the alienation between them. He invokes the gulls as a symbol again, describing them as “lonely” and thereby suggesting his own alienation; John, earlier, found comfort and community in the gulls, and their dissimilar reactions indicate their diverging relationships with Newfoundland, its nature, and its culture. This distance, leaving them incapable of truly understanding each other, is what the narrator acknowledges in…