Regret In The Painted Door By Sinclair Ross

A relationship between a father and a son is a sacred bond, one created at birth and strengthened over time. This paternal relationship is core to the value of family, a likewise bond of faith and trust. Such bonds are tested during times of hardship and pain, seen most clearly during times of war. During the events of World War II, and the gruesome events of the Holocaust, this truth was never more true. Through works such as the memoir Night, by survivor Elie Wiesel, and the artistry of the 1997 film Life is Beautiful, directed by Roberto Benigni, these times of hardships are kept alive in common memory. Through contrasting the lives of Elie Wiesel, and the fictional character of Giosue from Life is Beautiful, in the concentration camp, the evolution of the father-son relationship over time can be seen.

When society thinks of the word “childhood,” they imagine it as a precious time for children to be in school and freely play, to grow and learn with the love and support from people dear to their hearts. It is also known to be a cherished period where children are to be innocent and live carefree from fear. However, in the context of The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls, childhood is viewed as a tough hardship that Jeannette and her siblings have overcame, and the memories they carry has greatly impacted their lives that it has molded them to who they are

Hope is a powerful thing; more powerful than death itself. Night, by Elie Wiesel, is about a jewish boy who is put into a concentration camp during the Holocaust. Elie doubted his faith to survive but had others to lean on during the hardship. Elie had the support of others as a sense of hope to survive the long, cold nights, with little food and water.

Ann goes various stages of internal and external conflict, the first she experience is loneliness and lack of commutation from John. in her mind she compare her husband with Steven and imagine what would life like with Steven. The next stage is when the storm starts, she began to feel terrify, cold and she start to seek things that could comfort her. Hoping her husband would come, she loyally wait him to arrive by nightfall. When her husband does not arrive , she start to panic, till Steven enters and comfort her. At this stage, she almost believed that her husband

In the story, The Painted Door by Sinclair Ross, the protagonist, Ann suffers from many mental issues caused by isolation and depression. She is first revealed as a farmer’s wife, insisting her husband, John to stay with her during a storm, but John ultimately makes the decision to leave and visit his father. This act made Ann feel insignificant because she felt that she is “as important as” John’s “father”. This is the not the first time John was not there when Ann needed him most, seven years married and he “scarcely spoke a word” during meals. Ann who is his wife and the only living person within a “2 mile” radius is constantly rejected the simplest freedoms and of all people, her husband. Which outcomes in an extreme “sense of isolation”

Both women, Ann and Ellen, are determined to change their husbands for the ideal life they think they should have. Ellen wants to change her husbands love for the farm. She “wanted to go to him, to cry a little just that he might soothe her but because his presence made the menace of the

The short story,The Painted Door, by Sinclair Ross, focuses on a woman who commits adultery due to her husband's absence and neglect of emotions. It is set in a rural farming community. It is written in the third person’s perspective and produces high levels of intensity, emotions, and drama. The Painted Door compels the reader to ruminate on the implications long after the reader has finished reading the story through the use of symbolism, and an interpretative plot.

In this world, there’s learning things the hard way and the easy way; in Jeannette Wall’s world, there’s only learning things the hard way. The Glass Castle is an adventurous story that reveals the painfully miserable story of Jeannette Walls. A selfish mother, a careless father, and terrible social encounters- these are some of the elements of a harsh reality Rex and Rose Mary Walls failed to shield their children from.

When first discovering her womanhood under the pear tree, Janie describes how “she wanted to struggle in life but it seemed to elude her” (11). Struggle seemed to be all around Janie, yet she didn’t let it affect her. After a pressured marriage to a man that she wasn’t attracted to, Janie kept looking forward and found a way out. However, that way out was even more difficult than the first. For 20 years, Janie waited for something to change in her abusive relationship to Jody, except it only ended when he died. Finally, she married Tea Cake who showed her what it was like to be loved and feel love. In each of these marriages, Janie fights for her independence that was previously denied from her. She refuses to give up on her dream for true love and is only satisfied after she finds it with Tea

Events in people’s lives can have a myriad of effects on them. A person can become lost, transform into a better person, or ignore the events altogether. The choice of how to react often matters more than the event itself. The occurrence can also change the people’s views on life and cause them to have a different destiny. If the traumatizing event is never acknowledged however, the value and growth of the experience will be lost. The role of significant events or experiences shaping people’s destinies is illustrated in the examples of Elie Wiesel and a personal example.

The protagonist in “The Painted Door", Is Ann who is struggling for happiness in her marriage and inner satisfaction, Ann feels that she is simply an adjunct on her husband, Since she is a farmer’s wife, she feels an increasing isolation especially during the winter month. And on the other hand the fire seems to comfort Ann from the sense of isolation and protects her from the cold; the fire also seems to bring her a sense of security. When the silence becomes too much for Ann to bare, the fire seems to help her cope. "It was the silence again, aggressive, hovering. The fire spit and crackled at it."(50) The fire fights the loneliness that Ann feels. Sinclair believes that when humans have to deal with isolation, the way they behave with certain

“Life’s too short to care about what other people think” (Jeannette Walls). It is good to not care what other people think, so stay true in life and live it to the fullest. The book, The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls, is a memoir that tells the story of Jeannette’s difficult family and her poor living conditions, that cause life to be difficult for her. She struggles to move past all the hardships in life and she learns how to overcome the majority of them, so she can develop into her own person. Even though her family can be a little peculiar, they possess a strong bond with each other and they always seek to help one another out. Although Jeannette’s childhood is difficult, she overcomes poverty through her skills of being hardworking and

In The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls, Rose Mary is the mother of the Walls children who often does not act as a true adult. Rose Mary’s attitudes and behaviours are childlike, and therefore her children must take on responsibility for the lack her own. Rose Mary ignores her obligations as a parent and chooses an irresponsible way of life which endangers her children. Rose Mary has never properly matured into adulthood due to her lack of financial stability, bliss ignorance and optimism, and her selfishness nature.

In Ross’ work, both Ann and Vickers share the common attributes of isolation; which creates deaths in their lives. Specifically, in “The Painted Door” Ann’s isolation leads to an adultery and a death of a loved one. When Steven comes to keep Ann company, her unsatisfied feelings for John, cause her to show interest in Steven, leading to an affair. While John is not present in Ann’s life, she turns to Steven when left alone: “She [is] John’s wife -she [knows]- but also she [knows] that Steven standing here was different from John” (Ross 297). Evidently, isolation causes Ann to make wrong decisions. Ross uses juxtaposition between John and Steven. This leads the reader to believe Ann tries to is not satisfied, with John and she will be satisfied with Steven. Therefore, resulting in the affair. Lastly, the end results of Ann having the affair with Steven due to isolation, brings about John’s death. John finally makes it home after fighting the storm to a sight of

One may say that McCandless’ violent childhood is what caused his downfall. McCandless may have even had the right idea, separating himself from his family, but due to his fragile state of mind he may have gone to too much of an extreme. He ended up taking the policies and principles of transcendentalism too far, which is really what resulted in his death. A concept that transcendentalism goes strongly against is materialism, a principle that may have saved his life. He was so anti materialistic in fact, that he refused to even have a phone or form of communication, this ultimately could have saved his life. Another principle taken to an extreme was intuition and self-reliance. As Chris traveled around collecting money for Alaska, he was also