I seen him goin’ in your house.” (Slim 32) Slim assumed she was looking for unwarranted attention from him. What the ranch hands did not realize is that her loneliness led her to these actions, “She put her hand behind her back and leaned against the door frame so that her body was thrown forward.” (Steinbeck 31). Being in a relationship should satisfy one's need for attention. Curley's wife considered her marriage unhealthy and did not consider Curley a good husband. Throughout the novella, Curley's wife was consistently looking for Curley and she spent most of her time in the ranch house alone.
Around Mrs. Hale this had never been an issue but Dixon did this in front of Margaret one day by making comments about Mr. Hale. “Dixon had been so much accustomed to comment upon Mr. Hale's proceedings to her mistress...that she never noticed Margaret's flashing eye and dilating nostril. To hear her father talked of in this way by a servant to her face,”
Women have no rights and were under the mercy of her family. Both women look alike but with different situation. They wanted to have the word women to spread out and being heard that women are capable of doing everything a man can do. Two stories make the reader see that they wanted someone to feel them or probably to survive from what they were living with. “The Story of an Hour “ when Mrs.Malled confirm her about the death she goes to her room quite with no one follow her sitting on a armchair in front of an open window thinking that is it true or fiction what happened in order to get out from the shock.
In this part, Curley’s wife talks to Candy about how his dreams are not going to work out. She says, “I seen too many of you guys...I know you guys” (Steinbeck, pg 79). This proves that Curley’s wife has been at that house for a long time with no one to talk to, and it’s caused her to have a constant need for attention. The only way she knows how to get attention is by messing with people. Curley’s wife tries to explain to Candy that his dreams will never work out which portrays that she deals with her attention by bring people down.
Which demonstrates how they were just inspired by being housewives which was the way the old times set up ladies? Emily had a feminist battle when, her father denied any appeal for youngsters to invest time with Emily. Emily was continued lockdown and wasn't allowed to date or even go outside her home. The announcements made in this story recommend that ladies are sub-par in its
Mr. and Mrs. Hadley had practically no relationship with their children because they had allowed the house to take over their roles as parents. The children’s behavior had gotten far out of hand; their thoughts even converted to dark violence. Their mother and father gave up on even attempting to fix anything, for they knew the kids wouldn’t be obedient. During the short story, the veldt was displayed inside of the nursery, The room had a technology that allowed the mind to choose what appeared as the scenery, which made it look and feel realistic. What was bizarre about the veldt, was that it had never seemed to change.
Becky suffers alongside Sara after she is left permanently in the care of Miss Minchin. They form a close bond throughout their time of mistreatment. In The Secret Garden, Mary Lennox is also very spoiled but she was allowed to be when she lived in India. By the age of six she was “tyrannical and as selfish as a pig”(2); she believed that servants should wait upon others; once her Ayah did not come to her bedside and Mary “threw herself into a fit, hitting and beating the messenger”(2). Upon Mary’s arrival to Misselthwaite Manor she is introduced to Martha; a servant with many siblings and a heavy Yorkshire accent.
She even goes so far to describe all the surgeries, all the training to become the “Queen Supreme” (PG) as “just the biggest mistake I could make” and simply, “the biggest challenge I could give myself" (PG). As well as appearances, Brandy took on a new bourgeois personality, making identifying her previous persona of Shane almost impossible to distinguish. Going through such a significant change in identity, Brandy cut all contact with her family, becoming so distant from them that it took weeks of travelling together before she and her sister even recognized each other. Without an established identity, Brandy allows her life to become chaotic, allowing herself at first to be controlled by the Rhea Sisters, and then continuing into self-destructive behaviours. As Brandy and
While Mrs. Johnstone’s house is always filled with chaotic with constant clamor of childhood gmes and battles, Mrs. lyons often alone as mr lyons is mostly away for business, in a flawless house that somewhat suffers from a cold and sterile atmosphere. Mrs. lyons desperately pressures Mrs. Johnstone into passing one of twins on to her, as mr and Mrs. lyons cannot have a baby of their own. Mrs. Johnstone is hesitant, however, the prospect of opportunities afforded to the baby through being brought up in a privileged social class, convinces her to give away her child so that he can have a good upbringing. Time passes and one of the boys grows up with Mrs. lyons as Edward whereas one of them grows up with Mrs. Johnstone as micheal(mickey for short). The story continues and the boys meet each other in the park for the first time at the age of seven.
Small moments of power similar to this are the only amount of power handmaids can wield. After her account of the ceremony with the Commander and his wife, back in her room applying butter to her face and hands Offred explains how handmaids are afforded no luxuries such as lotion being that they “are containers, it’s the only the insides of our bodies that are important,” handmaids fall victim to objectification and dehumanization. The Commander desires intimacy with a woman. Under the patriarchal ruling, intimacy became obsolete. Wives no longer hold the affection of their husbands as they each have specifically assigned roles in which there is no place for intimacy.