The Revolutionary Road Analysis

The characters in Ann Patchett’s The Patron Saint of Liars illustrate the theme of the importance of loyalty in relationships. In the novel, Rose, who is pregnant, moves across the country to live in a home for pregnant girls, where she later marries the handyman. Her husband, Son, tells her, “You came here because you wanted to give her up and then you didn’t, you married me, you stayed here, and now it all doesn’t seem to matter very much, and sometimes I wonder why you did it, is all” (175). Son notices Rose’s indifference towards everything in their lives. She does not care about Son because she feels no sense of loyalty towards him.

Additionally, it leads men to believe that they are worthy of this kind of love from a woman. That their wives should stay at home and live to serve them instead of working, inflating the male ego and

Women realizes that without work and salary had make them lost their confidence as an individual to pursuing a professional job because they don’t know their worth anymore. For example, the author state, “a Time magazine cover story on “The Case for Staying Home” and a “60 Minutes” segment devoted to a group of former mega-achievers who were, as the anchor Lesley Stahl put it, “giving up money, success and big futures” to be home with their children. (Warner, 2013) Women thought that by staying home will solve the relationship issues and that women will be recognized as a good mother, but O’Donnel’s experience proved this to be wrong. Women who are working, they value their self more and put their self in front of a lot of things like marriage and manage work related.

Because of the abstinence of her mother, Lily lacks the knowledge of how to be a lady in her society. In the 60s, women were expected to be married at a young age, usually giving up their life in order to stay at home and have babies. If they did had jobs, they were very low paying. Also, they were expected to do common house chores inside such as cooking and cleaning, look attractive and listen to their husbands because they were the caretakers. The men, however, were expected to work, provide for their family, and do outside jobs such as mowing the lawn or washing cars.

Dr. Murphy (n.d) asserts, “Money is the number one source of disagreements in the early years of marriage. Money stress is the number one cause of divorce. Lack of evidence showing a relationship between material wealth and happiness” (p. 5). Bill shared that once in his parent’s marriage there was a discussion of divorce as his mother was not happy with their family’s lifestyle. His mother said that money was his father only way of showing love.

In my imagination, Buddy is a male who greatly admires his mother and follows her conventional advices to an unacceptable extent; he accepts his mother’s conservative ideas of gender roles and how the domestic life should be organised. Buddy does not support Esther’s interest in poetry and called one of her works “a piece of dust” (Plath), stating that she will lose interest in literature as soon as she becomes a mother. Buddy Willard is the impersonation of male chauvinism and sexism in the novel, as he is unable to respect Esther’s ambitions and only sees her as his wife and mother of his children. This character clearly portrays the attitude towards females at the time, indicating on gender inequality. However, Sylvia Plath has demonstrated that such limitations and inequality can be overcome in order to pursue one’s aspirations, as Esther rejects Buddy, his views on life and refuses to become a submissive wife and

Nanny who has been Janie’s caretaker has several hopes and dreams for her granddaughter. Nanny is not entirely perfect at her job of raising Janie, since her dreams for her are clouded by her own scarring experiences. Nanny attempts to insure a better life for Janie by forcing her to marry Logan Killicks, an old and wealthy man. Blinded by her own dreams, hopes, and desires, Nanny makes many impositions on Janie, “Have some sympathy fuh me. Put me down easy, Janie, Ah’m a cracked plate” (Hurston 20).

“That’s ridiculous,” I told Peggy. “I like your parents and always enjoyed including them. Why would she think that?” “Because they have no money,” Peggy said. “She thinks that’s why you didn’t want her over.”

The men always thought they knew best and they would often laugh and scoff when the women would try to voice their opinions. In “The Yellow Wallpaper” the narrator tries to explain to her husband that the summer house they are living in is not helping her condition and that it needs to be renovated, but he does not take her seriously. Instead, John replied that “the place is doing you good and really, dear, I don’t care to renovate the house just for a three months’ rental”(Perkins 772). John was not listening to his wife at all and she wasn’t even getting better, but he told her she was. The men did not pay attention to any of their wives concerns and they would often let the woman know what they were saying was nonsense.

I decided to be with my mother as I liked my mother more than my father. I could understand why she determined to divorce. My father didn’t have a good character when that time. He was clumsy and easily got irritated and raised his voice like an old-school man.. She said to me, “ I will rent a new room which located close to my workplace”.

Diane not only had to raise a special needs child, she had to raise her alone because her husband left her (Lowry). This film shows the audience that everyone deserves a chance at life, even if they: lose their husband, have to raise a disabled child, lose their child, can not walk, or can not talk. Diane portrays a true, strong, loving character, while Mark acted selfish and irresponsible. Everyone should watch Follow the Stars Home because it teaches its audience an important lesson of valuing human life. Loved ones are taken from people at any given moment, so why take their life on

There was tension, blood, and tears with the Thirteen Colonies and Great Britain. This was due to the American Revolution that started in 1765 and ended in 1783. So how revolutionary was the American revolutionary war? Well, first what does revolutionary mean? Revolutionary means that things have changed dramatically.

In her short Story, “ Birthday Party” Katharine Brush uses diction and vivid imagery to convey her disapproval for traditions of society and lack of appreciation of a wife by her husband. Brush’s diction is not overly complex. Brush crates a common scene of an “unmistakable married” couple celebrating “the husband’s birthday.” The husband wears glasses and the wife is “fadingly pretty.”

Glory Road did a good job of showing Haskins relentless recruiting tactics and desire to win. He found good basketball players anywhere he could, discovering them in schoolyards in Detroit and New York. His will to win lead him to do anything that would make his team competitive, and the film even has a line where Haskins says, “To win you have to recruit. That’s how the big schools do it, and that is how we are going to do it” (Glory Road). He was a coach who set high expectations and worked his team and himself hard to reach his goals.

In the case of Jacob Lawrence, his personal style brought the African-American experience to life using contrasts between dark and vivid colors. Nonetheless, two examples of some of his most known paintings include “ The Builders, The Family” and “This is a Family Living in Harlem”. While both paintings are similar in that they both show strong family unity in the African Culture, they are different in the setting where each of the paintings are taking place. Strong family unity is present in, “ The Builders, The Family”, as it shows a nice, well dressed family walking together on their way to either church or their household.