It is amazing when people are faced with failure, how they can turn it around to create success from that failure. In both short stories "The Lamp At Noon" and "The Blue Kimono", George, Marthe and Ellen showed some type of failure. Then, turning it around and making a success out of it. Ellen was the first one that I noticed, since the first short story was "The Lamp At Noon". She definitely failed at first, but picked herself up and created a little success. This was shown when she was being nasty to Paul, making him sound like a ....