Symbolism In Silver Water

Even though she suffered from the beginning to the end of the play where her husband dies, Rose is proven to be very strong and takes charge of her family even with the death of her husband. She mends everything together just like the fence symbolizes in her family. She does not allow her family to be disrupted no matter what. Even though Troy is bold enough to open up to his wife about his secret affair, Rose  keeps her cool. Despite all that, she does not see it as an opportunity for her to get her revenge.

Sara Constantakis, who wrote a part in the Novels for Students book, mentions that An-Mei doesn’t want to tell Rose this story to make her upset, but to make her realize she needs to stand up to her own rich husband who seems to be pushing her around and not let the same thing that happened

Before he passed, Jack made her promise she would still live her life after the tragic event. He made her promise she would grow old and she wouldn’t die that night. So, after Jack had froze to death, Rose was determined to live on. It was hard for her to keep her promise, but she was determined and didn’t want to Jack down. So, when a lifeboat came around in the water, she didn’t let it leave without her on it.

Don’t you think I had dreams and hopes? What about my life? What about me” (70). Rose, rightly so, is enraged when Troy defends his actions by saying he has been stuck his whole life with her, when she has gone through the same thing. The only difference, however, is that Rose stays loyal to her family even when things are not going great, while on the other hand Troy looks out for himself for his own benefit, at the expense of his family.

Throughout the story, the main character, Miss Emily Grierson, shows signs of what appears to be some form of mental illness. Although Faulkner never states that Miss Emily has anything wrong with her mental health, he does provide enough evidence to support that she is not psychologically stable. In “A Rose for Emily,” Faulkner portrays the main character as a mysterious icon of the small town of Jefferson, Mississippi. As the story states, Emily’s father is an admirable figure in the city of Jefferson. After his passing, the townspeople show the same respect for Emily, as well.

The scene is set up with the perfect sense that Rose is going to do anything but empathetically inquire about her father’s accident and recovery; rather, she is about to accuse him of carelessness and curse him. Smiley continues to reveal Rose’s unwavering resentful tone towards her father through the details of her reaction to Ginny’s proposition. After a heated exchange transitions to Ginny suggesting that they try setting Larry to strict rules, “Rose walked to the front window and stood with her back to me, staring west across the fields”

When you think of roses you think of romance, but Ms. Strangeworth was single and didn’t think of romance. The roses were her children she cared for them like a mother would do a child. They represented something bigger to her, we understand family inheritance is special but the

The central male characters in the novel, objectify, oppress, and project their own ideals onto Daisy, which reduces her to the shadow of a character so damaged she is incapable of being her own person. Without any great leaps of faith, one can safely assume that

In being the first to value a foreigner, others follow in Rose 's footsteps. These associations become a symbol of peace at a time when politics have prevented any policy of trust. At the eighth grade of Rose she begins to feel the gloominess because of her best friend Daisy. When Rose and Daisy are both little one they had been joined at the hip, they are like a twin sister but Rose never noticed how hard it would be to maintain a relationship that allows only one center.

The reality of the situation was that she had no control over her father’s death. There was nothing or no way that she could have prevented the events that took place. Although she was extremely angry with the situation at hand she learned that she had other things to be grateful for. She wanted people to know that even though something or someone has passed away you can’t stay stuck in the state of depression forever. You have to step back and look at your life because the reality is, life still moves on.

"A Rose for Emily" is a successful story not only because of its intricately complex chronology, but also because of its unique narrative point of view. Most critics incorrectly consider the narrator, who uses "we" as though speaking for the entire town, to be young, impressionable, and male; however, on close examination, we realize that the narrator is not young and is never identified as being either male or female. The character of the narrator is better understood by examining the tone of the lines spoken by this "we" person, who changes his/her mind about Miss Emily at certain points in the narration. Consider the opening sentence of the story and the reasons given for the townspeople's attending Miss Emily's funeral: ". . . the men [went] through a sort of respectful affection for a fallen monument.

From the readers point of view, it is obvious that Rose is too good for Troy, but Rose constantly is faithful to Troy. This shows a special aspect of marriage and the relationship between Troy and Rose. It shows the level of commitment it takes to be in a marriage, but it also show the lack of commitment and gratitude that could be in a marriage. Troy ends up cheating on Rose, because he began to take what he had for granted.

In “A Rose for Emily,” the protagonist, Emily displays the obsession through her isolation. Equally important, the theme of obsession works as a preeminent role through the protagonist. Emily was never allowed to be autonomous growing up, and she goes beyond the lines on maintaining a strong intimacy through her isolating lifestyle. In essence, Emily develops a mental illness from severe isolation due to the actions of her father.

Rose has a mental illness and this story tells of the in and outs of not only Rose’s but her family’s struggle with her having a mental illness. Through this, we see how people with mental illnesses are treated and how the people around them react. Amy Bloom’s use of diverse characters in “Silver Water” show how people in our society do not take mental illnesses as serious as physical ailments; this is shown throughout Rose’s journey of living with a mental

Water- an everyday need so simple that nobody ever thinks about it. Daniel Wallace’s novel Big Fish uses water as a way of symbolizing life. In the book, a father called Edward Bloom tells stories to his son, William, but this is all he ever tells to Will. When Edward starts dying, Will ends up taking him to a river and Edward magically turns into a fish. In Edward’s stories and his transformation, water symbolizes life. One example of this is his transformation: the river Edward is dropped in gives him new life as a fish.