The Role Of Regret In Louisa May Alcott's Little Women

He loves Big Daddy and to tell him the news while he is on his death time would leave Brick to the thought of Big Daddy dying in disappointment through his son. Denial through himself is the hardest fight to win, and Brick is losing. He denies himself for the sake of others trying to please everyone around him instead of taking it and making himself happy. He does not want to feel the disappointment through his family, and he does not want to break Maggie 's heart. All the denial makes life harder than what it should be, and makes one and more people unhappy.

This poor innocent baby who doesn't know, that his dad just thinks of him as a thing not his son. It changes the reread perspective of Martin making him the bad guy of the story. Another phrase is “ you just wish he'd go away…. Not half of him all of him,” when Isabel shouts this at Martin, it makes the reader feel sad about how Martin thinks of his son as a burden. Isabel is crying at this point and Martin is leaving the room trying to avoid her.

The husband is hurt from his wife’s death being so sudden. He hurts for the fact that she will no longer there with him or around him. The narrator tells us how he is lonely and how he is broken he wants to move on and go to where Lenore is.“My sad fancy into smiling.”(45) The

Everyone was blind to the fact he was depressed and mourning over his lost relationship with his Father and the cruel doing of his Uncle. His Mother especially wanted to blame Ophelia because she didn’t want to face the reality of her husband’s death. Polonius didn’t realize that his daughter wasn’t the main piece of Hamlet’s Mourning or Depression

His mother’s pseudo-listening and insulated listening often creates a negative climate between them. Conrad comes to the realization that his mother dislikes him because of the minimal attention she gives him, thus his doctor’s explanation, “don’t expect her to love you more than she can.” She has completely insulated herself from topics that cause her to contemplate the past, and when the topic discomforts her, she becomes a defensive listener and takes offense from minor remarks. Similarly, his friends who struggle with stage hogging make Conrad feel unwelcomed and slowly kill their friendship. However, poor listening also sometimes creates a positive climate. For example, Conrad takes his father’s selective listening as a sign of caring, although he doesn’t come to appreciate it until the end of the story.

Nea’s journey seems solely based on saving her sister when in actuality she is trying to find excuses to avoid growing up. The tragic hero fabricates false dangers to compensate her desire to be needed by her sister who has moved on with her life. Nea feels abandoned becausen Sourdi matures while she remains a child. Ma and Sourdi remain connected with traditional customs that Nea simply cannot understand due to her exposure to American culture. Her over active imagination, anxiety, and aggression get her into trouble.

The hatred between the Montagues and Capulets is due to selfishness. The selfishness drives certain family members to make rash decisions which lead to good or bad outcomes. However, in this quest to prove themselves superior, both sides suffer fatalities and loss. Romeo is sad because Rosaline will not love him back. In an attempt to relieve his sorrow, he attends a Capulet party where he meets Juliet.

When his father turned out to be a pauper who was in large debt, Okonkwo saw everything that Unoka loved as weakness, leading to a lack of these qualities. As Nwoye started to visit the missionaries in Umuofia, Okonkwo began to fear that the new religion was bringing out the more emotional side in his son. In a desperate attempt to stop Nwoye’s fascination, Okonkwo beat him, which only damaged their relationship even more. When the missionaries sent messengers to break up a meeting of the clan, Okonkwo killed one of them. However, no one rallied to his side, and the great warrior killed himself to avoid the punishment.

Is the fact that she sheltered her kids; to the extent where it had a negative effect. Her devotion and drive to keep her kids from becoming like their father may have been coming from a sincere place; however it only caused harm to their relationship. This can be shown when Jenny Lynn finds one of her offspring reading a book and decides to take matters into her own hands: (Pg.40) " my sisters one by one discovered my father's bedroom...my mother's reaction was always abrupt, bordering on the angry...and once I saw her slap my youngest sister so hard." Despite the fact that she disliked books and sees it as a waste of time. If she were to change her point of view or look at it from another angle, she might have seen books as a door to opportunities and other possibilities.

What would be different if Salinger didn’t use so much humor to help make light of Holden’s situation? Holden was depressed the whole entire novel. Women kept rejecting him, nobody respects him, people take advantage of him, his best friend is his sister, and his crush is someone who he wants to talk to all the time but won’t because of the fear of rejection. He also gets really depressed when he sees something sad. “That’s what I liked about those nuns.

Parris blames others to divert attention away from himself. He worries that if the townspeople learn that his daughter and niece have fiddled with witchcraft, his position as pastor could be expelled. Yet at the same time, in the beginning of the play, because Parris placed the title witch on the heads of even the most pious members of his community, he converts into an overly insecure character. All in all, Parris horrors the loss of his job, others finding fault in him, and

DeVito, 1996). This piece of evidence shows that Matilda’s dad is just being jealous of her. It appears that her dad never got the education that Matilda is getting, and is gaining envy. When Miss. Honey sees sadness wash over Matilda’s face, she remembers what her childhood was like.