The Addams Generation: Chapter Summary

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

“ (Paragraphs 34 and 46). The tension is the story is caused by the mother in the story doing something that displeases the narrator, which is her mother getting her

Out of all the children she was the one most like John. Jane and the other children would be cared for by Polly Beer, Sarah’s governess. The oldest of the children, Mary, would take over as a mother figure in Jane’s life. Years later, John would go on to marry another woman, Anna, also a widower. Anna was sophisticated and well read.

Despite these feelings, Mary knew she had to reveal her secret. She pulled open the glass door and guided her young son into the lobby. As she entered, she caught sight of him behind the main desk speaking to a younger man, who looked like an intern. The sound of the door closing behind them captured the attention of the men, and Bill came to greet Mary and the little boy. “Hello Mary, nice seeing you again”, his words sounded echoed in her mind, “What are you doing here?”

The narrator is portrayed as a young, upper-middle-class woman, newly married and a mother, who is undergoing care for depression. Jennie is portrayed as a regular housewife who happily assumes all the traditional duties of a housewife. Mary is portrayed as a regular nanny hired to take care of a child. Mary takes care of the narrator and John's baby. This story is about control and attacks the role of women in society.

Jane quickly stopped singing and silently look at her mother with fear in her eyes. The men continued riding their horses to the house about a mile from where Jane and her mother were, Ruth told Jane they must be asking the homeowners if they saw anyone running around last night. As night fell on the swamp Ruth began carrying Jane. She was walking through field moving very slowly just incase someone was out looking for her.

Jane Addams life as a child was not easy, she had a congenital spinal defect which led to her never being physically strong and her father who served for sixteen years as a state senator and fought as an officer in the Civil War always showed that his thoughts of women were that they were weak, and especially her with her condition. But besides that she lived a very privileged life since her father had many famous friends like the president Abraham Lincoln. Jane was determined to get a good education which she ended up getting. She went to Rockford sanitary for women which is now called Rockford University and she also studied to be a doctor but had to quit because she was hospitalised too many times. Being sick affected her life very much so when she got older she remedied her spinal defect with surgery.

When she learns the news of her husband’s death, she was sad and shocked by it yet it gave her a sense of freedom and feeling of opportunity of what was to come of her day to day life without her

Laura Jane Addams was born in Cedarville,Illinois on September,6 186.Jane had experienced tragedy early on in life that made her a strong person with a will to help those around her. When Jane was two years old,both her mother and sister died of a disease outbreak causing depression within her household. A couple years later Jane’s neighbors sent all four of their children to fight in the civil war ,and only one came back alive. A week after the son's return,he was killed by an accidental shotgun fire.

While she was lying there she had been hearing Janies young voice in what she thought was a dream, then to be thrown off guard with the voice of a young man as well. Before anyone knew it, she had snapped up and stood outside watching as her young Janie was being kissed on by Johnny and young Janies life would soon begin. When Nanny had seen this act, she told Janie that she was a woman know, she had things expected of her and things that needed to be done for her and that Johnny Taylor was nothing but a boy. Nanny had forced Janie into a marriage with Logan Killiks, a man who had been coming around the house talking to Janies Nanny for this specific reason. When Janie came across this news she was dumfounded, she was too young too marry, she did not want to marry Logan, she did not want to marry anyone that she did not already love.

Jane Addams was born on September 6, 1860, in Cedarville, Illinois. Her mother died when she was only a few years old, which may have spurred her ambitions to become a doctor when she was very young, but she was unable to fulfill her ambitions, due to her often back pains, and was sick most of the time. In 1877, Jane attended the Rockville Female Seminary where she learned to write and speak with authority, traits that would be useful for years to come. When she graduated in 1881, she became ill and depressed, and became more so after her father died that same year when she was only 21.

At that time Annemarie had to think think like a little girl. With her mama falling and hurting her ankle Annemarie had to be responsible and act older and take the package to her uncle. in conclusion Annemarie was a little girl who was not told the truth. She was very close to her family. And she experienced a journey from girlhood to womanhood.

Mary genuinely loved and cared for Patrick and would never intently plan to kill him with hatred. When she returned from the store and saw her adored husband dead on the ground, despite how Patrick mistreated her, “no acting was necessary” when

John contemplates the concept of oneness with Jane. On a late afternoon day, Jane tells John she has loved knowing him forever. She tells John they have been together for more than 50 years and that he has Alzheimer’s. They have grandkids. Jane transforms into a 90-year-old woman, John does too.

When Richard’s heard the news of her husband’s death, he assumed Mrs. Mallard would be devastated. While everyone knew Mrs. Mallard was “afflicted with heart trouble” (57), him and her sister, Josephine, wanted to give her the news with “great care” (57). Josephine broke the news to Mrs. Mallard in “broken sentences”