Song Analysis: The Girl On The Train

During this time it was a common cultural surrounding to believe in home care. Mary also resents her husband because he always went for the cheapest treatment. This leads to her drug abuse and her sons fatal illness. “I 'm not blaming you, dear. How can you help it?

In Their Eyes Were Watching God, Janie’s faults made her dependent emotionally towards men, but independent when finding her own happy ending throughout the book. From The Odyssey, Calypso desperately tried to find love and make Odysseus stay, but her flaws of attachment and having a higher level of authority over Odysseus in their relationship kept her from achieving real love with someone. Although Janie and Calypso are opposites when it comes to love, they do have similarities. Their relationships always ended the same way, with Janie leaving her husbands and Calypso being deserted by her lovers. They both tried to to find love, with some difficulties for each women individually.

Kat is a force to be reckon with when we first meet her, as she says what she thinks and doesn’t care what other people have to say. Kat is also very jealous of her younger sister Bianca, as Bianca gets all the men’s attention instead of her. Near the end Kat is listening to her husband and is not talking back anymore. Kat has been tamed by Petruchio and is now no longer a shrew. Kat was at first mean and ruthless and now she is clam and nice, which was a major change of her character from the beginning to the end of the story.

Lily lives a lonely life so that triggers her to go retrace her mother 's footsteps to learn more about her mother’s pass because T.Ray won’t talk about her. Even though Lily doesn’t really have a family, she gains a new one along her journey. The loss of someone important in your life can be extremely devastating. Lily’s loss of her mother and T.Ray takes

This story shows how sometimes what everyone thinks is the perfect life is often not so perfect at all. “Everyday Use” begins with the narrator Momma, who is anticipating her daughter Dee arrival. Momma is waiting for Dee’s arrival

While Hero is willing to have a controlling husband, Beatrice shows that she wants to have her own and answer to no man. She 's not having that. Her favorite target is Benedick, with whom she has something of a history, to the extent that she exercises her talent for mocking him on the poor unsuspecting messenger and takes the first opportunity to needle him once he arrives. She really doesn’t have any interest of having a husband. Her slick mouth and attitude will truly prevent her from

Myrtle is accustomed to living an underprivileged life where feminine power engulfs her, but Tom is too egotistical to allow Myrtle to speak with such authority to him. Similarly, Gatsby’s need for assurance from Daisy pressures her into revealing to Tom that she never loved him (Fitzgerald 132). Deep down, Daisy knows that she truly did love Tom once, but Gatsby’s assertiveness and persistence drives her over the edge to telling Tom that what the two of them shared meant nothing to her. Daisy’s attribute of being a pushover is revealed immensely because she refuses to stand up for herself. Daisy is used to enabling Tom to constantly control all aspects of her life, and that leaves her powerless in society.

She realizes exactly what her place in society and that there is no freedom with men, further cementing men as a different species. No matter what

When Katherina’s father says that she must marry before her sister, Katharina asks if her father will “make a stale of me amongst these mates.” Her contempt for Bianca’s suiters is bold, it is not unreasonable; nor are her objections to being objectified at the hands of these men. Later, she expresses her frustration with her lack of autonomy saying “as though, belike I knew not what to take and what to leave? Ha!” Katharina’s father, and later her husband Petruchio do not listen to her wishes or allow her to speak her mind.

Daisy is a narcissistic person that constantly starts problems and getting in trouble even with Gatsby who risk everything for her and will die for her so she can be pleased. She keeps Gatsby around because he can do her dirty work. She said she loves Gatsby but in reality she never did. Daisy just wanted someone to have fun with that spoils her rather than her very own husband, Tom. “As soon as she finds out that Gatsby may be making his wealth in backroom, bootlegging ways, she’s done with the whole flirtation.”

Linda Brent sought to escape Dr. Flint’s increasing threat and inevitable sexual abuse by having an extra-marital affair with his neighbour Mr. Sands. In comparison to Dr. Flint, Mr. Sands seemed to genuinely care for Linda, even helping and protecting her from Dr. Flint. Linda believed that being sexually involved with another man would deter Dr. Flint from pursuing her; however, this only worsened her situation -- Dr. Flint threatened to keep her as her slave forever, and Brent had two children with Mr. Sands. The greatest difference between the speakers of these two narratives is that one is a mother and the other is not; however, mother or not, they both understand the extremely terrible consequences of raising children as an enslaved

After the two lovebirds first meet, Romeo recognizes, “[His] life is [his] foe’s debt,” (1.5.32). Once Romeo unveils Juliet as a Capulet, he grasps that their young love includes a heavy price to pay for its continuation and that his life remains in the hands of his enemy. Not only the families, but also the

One can note that Lady Capulet never says a positive word about the man that she married, yet speaks more highly of the father of the man her daughter married. A reader might find it interesting how paralleled Juliet and her mother are. Had Lady Capulet chosen love, she could have been dead like Juliet. Had Juliet chosen duty, she could have ended up in her mother’s shoes, married to a man that she doesn’t like or

The Yellow Wallpaper Main Character Mental Health Deterioration “Asylums. Electro-Shock Therapy. Skull drills. Pills. Exorcism.

What is “trust” and who is deserving of it? Well, according to Merriam-Webster Dictionary it is the firm belief in the reliability, truth, ability, or strength of someone or something. But what happens when no one knows the “real truth” and you are then compelled to put your trust into unreliable people? That is what author, Paula Hawkins forces her readers to do in her thrilling, murder-mystery novel, The Girl on the Train. Through her use of specific literacy techniques, she transforms her readers into literary detectives and presents them with the seemingly unsolvable mystery of the disappearance turned murder of Megan Hipwell.