Literary Analysis: I Stand Here Ironing

From Emily's father's death, she was seen to be psychotic in terms of her grief and lack of independence following the life of the late man. As soon as she lost her male superior, she lost her will to live a healthy life. Emily was left desperate and vulnerable “when her father died, it go about that the house was all that was left to her; and in a way, people were glad. At last they could pity Miss Emily” (Faulkner 11). Emily’s reliance on male figures reflects women's dependence on the male gender.

Miss Emily Grierson, the main character in William Faulkner’s short story, “A Rose for Emily”, is a very unusual character. She has an extremely unhealthy relationship with her father causing her to deny his death. Miss Emily constantly staying locked up in the house she grew up in alone, feeling forced to live in the limelight of her father and never attempting to get over his death causes her to mentally and physically withered away and become a sad, pitiful, and bizarre human being. Faulkner describes Emily’s desire to be alone by saying, “People hardly saw her at all” (Faulkner II). The only times she was seen was sitting in the window “with the torso of an idol”

She struggles to explain the aspects of the childhood of her daughter, Emily, in which she influenced her personality. The narrator was alone with a child during Great Depression times; she had to work to earn their living and often left her baby with a neighbor. However, during Emily’s childhood, the narrator tried to make best out of situations. The narrator understands that there was a lack of attention to her oldest child. As an example, she remembers the story of when her second daughter was born, and Emily got the measles and was not able to share that moment with her family for two whole weeks.

The concept of motherhood and the role of women have existed since the beginning of time and throughout various points it has differ. There is no limit to what can be considered motherhood. To one person, motherhood might mean the act of raising children and taking care of their family, and to another; motherhood might be what defines them as a person. This is seen in Tillie Olsen’s short story “I Stand Here Ironing” and the “Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. In both stories, the main characters were dealing with the struggles of motherhood and being a wife.

In accordance with Freud’s psychoanalytical approach, the initial difficulties within the parenting model could have led to further drawbacks

“Generally, men are socialized into believing that their essential role in life is to work outside the home and provide for the family while women are taught that their main role is to be homemakers” (Akotia and Anum 5024). The breadwinner is normally thought of as a man, but Lena puts a twist on that gender role. “You the head of this family. You run our lives like you want to” (Hansberry 1948). Lena breaks the gender role

In William Faulkner’s, “A Rose for Emily,” the townspeople view Miss Emily Grierson as a social outcast. Being isolated and oppressed by her father, Miss Emily suffers from what is considered abandonment issues. For Miss Emily, the fear of being alone not only causes problems for herself but also the people around her. Throughout the story, Faulkner further reveals Miss Emily’s character through the emotional, physical, and psychological changes she undergoes after the death of her father and her isolation from town. The death of Miss Emily’s father causes her to change drastically.

Women have particular roles in which society expects them to carry-out without failing; she is expected to be an obedient wife, a caring mother and conscientious homemaker. Society has painted an image of the “ideal wife” through media, marketing, and norms in which she is restricted to her home and nurturing her family, and gaining the respect of the community. A hard-working housewife was supposed to have dinner ready by the time her husband returned from work, perform and agreed without question. Women were not allowed to go to school, or work, and most times were forced to stay at home causing the housewife role to be the only job

Throughout the year we have learned about many different theorists who have done a great but also horrible job at explaining adolescent/ young adult development. In this paper I will be talking about Freud and Piaget, and how I think that Piaget was the better theorist than Freud when it comes to talking about development. I will also be talking about the similarities and difference between the two. For starters, what are their specific steps of development? Jean Piaget used observations of his own children to develop the four stages that we know he created today.

William Faulkner’s main character, Emily Grierson, in “A Rose for Emily” would seem strange by anyone who reads the story. A person could analyze her character in a number of different ways. It is hard for one not to see her in a psychological way. As the story progresses, Miss Emily’s behavior becomes increasingly bizarre. By the end of the story the townspeople, just like the reader, is left wondering how over many years Miss Emily has been living with a dead corpse in the house and even sleeping with it.

In the early nineteen hundreds women were seen as individuals most useful in the home, as wives, mothers, and homemakers. They were continually reduced to merely an extension of man and not their equal. This primitive concept of women as property was still a very present subject during this era. This story, in particular, explores the role of a women in male dominated society who rejected

While the narrator feels regret for not being able to raise her daughter right, she understands that mistakes will be made and her children can still grow up to be okay in the world. While Emily learns from her past and works towards a new future, it is important to remember that there is no such thing as a perfect child. In realizing that the narrator and Emily are very similar in their personalities as well as their young adult struggles, it is important to lean on family members for support in times of

Melissa, a 19-year-old college student, is, on the surface, a typical individual. She engages in typical behaviors and for girls her age, including frequent socialization. This paper analyzes Melissa and her past from the perspective of Freud, Adler, Horney, and Erikson, revealing deeper inner mechanics. Freud Sigmund Freud was undoubtedly a major influence on the development of psychology (Wollheim, 1971). Revolutionizing the field of psychology, his perspective, psychoanalysis, proposes a psychosexual stage system of development and structures the psyche around three most critical constructs: the id, shortsighted and operating on the pleasure principle; the ego, constructed by the id and operating on the reality principle; and the superego,

Film. Directed by Sidney Lumet. UK: Wincast Film Productions. According to Freud, within the traditional Oedipus complex the child must identify with the same-sex parent in order to resolve the conflict. Freud suggests that while the primal id wants to eliminate the father, the more realistic ego knows that the father is much stronger (Freud 1923 : 33).

Introduction Sigmund Freud is the great theorist of the mysteries of the human mind and a founder of the psychoanalysis theory which was formed in the 1800s, the theory is well known for accessing self-identity and the self in different ways in order to discover their different meaning, (Elliott, 2015). Buss (2008) states that Sigmund’s theory of Psychoanalysis offers a unique controversial insight into how the human mind works in a way that, this theory provided a new approach to psychotherapy, thus it means that it provided a new treatment for psychological problems that even highly qualified doctors couldn’t even cure. (Buss, 2008) According to Cloninger (2013), Erik Erikson on the other hand is the founder of the psychoanalytic-social Perspective which is mostly referred to as psychosocial development theory, Erikson became interested in child development when he met Anna Freud and he trained in psychoanalysis and with his Montessori diploma, he become one of the most influential psychologist of the 20th century.