Forward: When someone mentions skeletons in a closet, they may not necessarily be describing a collection of bones. Instead, they may be referring to secretive skeletons from their past. Which they have hidden in the deep dark closets of their mind and strive to keep it concealed. These secrets could cause pain and humiliation by embarrassing or destroying an otherwise unblemished reputation, even ruining lives forever. When we say, "I have skeletons in my closet" that is our way of saying, "I’m not talking to you about my past escapades, it might change your opinion of me,” or simply "protect my secrets and they can never hurt me.” Without a doubt everyone has skeletons known only to them and just the same, every family has skeleton’s in …show more content…
“Damn it, where in the hell is she? It’s so foolish and naïve of me to think I could stop her from destroying her family through ignorance. I’m going home,” Katherine said, as she started the engine, turned on the radio, and drove out of the parking lot, determined to forget about the red Mercedes. +++ As Marlene drove home, her mind lingered on the pleasures during the last hours with her lover. Entering the garage, she breathed a sigh of relief when she failed to see her husband’s car. Exiting the Mercedes, she ran her fingers through her raven hair, the blue-eyed beauty with a reputation for being high maintenance then preceded to the mailbox, before going into the house. Going straight to the kitchen, she poured a cup of coffee, sitting at the counter, she waited for her husband and father-in-law to arrive. While glancing through the mail, the phone rang, Marlene checked the caller ID, and saw it was her mother calling, rolling her eyes, she picked up the receiver. Notwithstanding, before she could say a word, Katherine raised her voice and asked, “Marlene Sue Barnes, is there anything you want to discuss with
' ' In between events: They had stopped at a bar the first night of their drive. Lawrance sat in a pleather seat hacking on his first cigarette, a man hands him a glass of whiskey to wash it down but only serves Lawrance to hiss as it burns down his throat. Marlene just laughs because when one of the bikers surounding them now pats Lawrance on the back and the poor sucker looks happy and as if he 's acomplished something. It 's Marlene 's job to make him happy in his last days, she had taken Lucy and her mother to disney land and treated them like millionars for a long weekend. Even
Throwing her bag down onto the office couch, Veronica sunk down next to it, putting her feet up on the coffee table. Two grand from Mrs. Picarrino in her office safe, Veronica was sated enough to sour her good mood thinking about Logan Echolls. He’d seemed genuinely shocked at Veronica’s accusations, and genuinely insistent that Kendall hadn’t been telling her the truth. “Everything okay, honey?” Keith saw more than the average hump-day frustrations on his daughter’s face.
On the way there Mattie ends up catching yellow fever, so her grandfather carries her to a place called Bush Hill, where people who have become sick because of the fever go to heal or die. Once Mattie got better, her and her grandfather set off back to the coffee shop. Once they reached the coffee shop they had realized that they have been broken into, things were broken and missing, and Mattie’s mother wasn’t in her bed either. Later that night, when grandfather was upstairs sleeping and Mattie was in the main room, to get away from her grandfathers snoring, Mattie heard two men trying to get into the coffee shop, the men had come to rob them, the tallest man had ended up grabbed
Now, lets gets to going.” At the bottom of the driveway, Estelle Louise turns to Clemmy Sue and ask, “Can we be stopping and checkin’ my mail?” “Ain’t gonna happen, cause that mailbox be sitting square in the middle of a water bog,” Clemmy Sue skedaddles down the road fighting the wind and blinding rain every mile of the way. Thirty minutes later, they pull into the empty gravel parking lot outside of Ruby’s Diner and park close to the front door. Before they venture into the Diner, they take their sweet time to apply a fresh coat of lipstick and run a comb through their soaking wet
The family owned a telephone, a large wireless radio, and a record phonograph that connected her mother to the world, but they had parted with many valuables in recent years to pay for her mother’s doctors’ bills. Feeling like the cat’s meow, Nell crossed the room to her mother, who was in her wheelchair listening to the wireless. Her mother put her hand to her throat when she saw her daughter. “Oh, Nell how lovely you look. You look like you just stepped out of Vogue magazine.”
She was put in jail and after she got out of she moved to California. Maureen’s breakdown caused everyone in the family separated for a few years. Months later Jeannette saw her mother picking through a dumpster and decided it was time to try and help her parents. She then arranged a meeting with her mother. She said, “I told Mom she was the snootiest squatter I’d ever met, and that made her laugh.
Mrs. Putnam creates hysteria into the trail by making rumors and false claims. As Mrs. Putnam walks inside small upper bedroom which Abigail, Susanna,
Ms. NS expressed that she was often frustrated with her siblings that her family had been always the one to cook, clean for her and took her to the doctor’s office. Ms. NS reported that her grandfather left her grandmother when Ms. NS was still little. She stated that, because her grandfather had never been involved with her mother’s life, she neither knew who he was nor where he had been for all these years. Ms. NS recalled that she unknowingly ran into her grandfather at her uncle’s wife’s funeral one day, as she randomly greeted visitors. Ms. NS described that her mother came behind her and spoke in a low voice that this old gentleman was her
She learns of her husband’s death in an accident and falsely finds a renewed joy for life as she is free from the burden of marriage. Tragically she goes to the front door as it is being opened with a key, to find Mr. Mallard still alive, causing her to die of heart
Eventually, Miss Strangeworth’s handwritten critiques of the townspeople become public. One evening, a teenage boy observes Miss Strangeworth delivering her notes at the post office. One of the letters fell onto the ground without Miss Strangeworth noticing. Instead of placing the letter into the mailbox, the boy delivers this message to the addressee, informing the recipient it came from Miss Strangeworth. The
“She wasn’t far from the road, but the idea of running for it appeared to her a demeaning absurdity, herself flailing through the drifts like some weeping, dopey, sacrificial extra in a horror movie” (6). Maureen is confused and puzzled throughout the abduction. She thinks, her abductor has the wrong person. “She shook her head as if to clear it”
The story opens with Mrs. Wright imprisoned for strangling her husband. A group, the mostly composed of men, travel to the Wright house in the hopes that they find incriminating evidence against Mrs. Wright. Instead, the two women of the group discover evidence of Mr. Wright’s abuse of his wife. Through the women’s unique perspective, the reader glimpses the reality of the situation and realizes that, though it seemed unreasonable at the time, Mrs. Wright had carefully calculated her actions. When asked about the Wrights, one of the women, Mrs. Hale, replies “I don’t think a place would be a cheerful for John Wright’s being in it” (“A Jury of Her Peers” 7).
In the 2006 novel The Road by Cormac McCarthy, a man and his son struggle to survive in a post-apocalyptic world. Told through a lens of constant hardship, the book follows their arduous journey towards a coast in order to survive the winter. Throughout the novel, McCarthy shows that having hope enables people to persevere in dire circumstances because it counteracts the possibility of negative outcomes. First, the woman’s monologue about her death displays the despair necessary to abandon all hope.
Marilyn’s troubled past promoted her decision to pressure her daughter, which eventually led to her demise. For example, after Lydia said that she lost her mother’s cookbook, Marilyn thought, “It was a sign, Marilyn decided. For her, it was too late. But it wasn’t too late for Lydia. Marilyn would not be like her own mother shunting her daughter toward husband and house, a life spent safely behind a deadbolt.”
Earlier before this Rita had made the assertion that Jay’s sister was crazy. “Your sister’s crazy, isn’t she?” (Hemley, Whipped 115). Initially, this really bothered Jay and he began to stand up for his sister before backing down. “Sure she’s crazy,” I said.