The Little Lady Of The Big House Analysis

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Have you ever seen articles with titles like “How to combine career and family”, written about men? Modern journals publish such articles today, but books written a hundred years ago already covered the item. In The Little Lady of The Big House, the author Jack London shows how powerful is the impact of society 's expectations. It prevents being happy and build healthy family relationship. Loneliness, over control and dependency, self-doubt is not the key to joyful life. On the pages of the novel we met Dick Forrest, rich rancher, “the master of broad acres” (London 1), who worked hard and earned a lot, he was not a prodigy, but he was good in hiring brains. A strong-willed person, attractive man with good sense of humor, he had everything he wanted. Paola, his wife, beautiful, tiny woman, positive, cheerful, intelligent, sweet and gentle, but at the same time brave and able to rein a wild horse. At first glance, they complement each other and there was harmony in the big house. But silence in the house and piece in the hearts was destroyed by Evan Graham, Dick 's old friend. His arrival became a reason for the love birth and delightful woman death. Was Paola 's death such unpredictable? What was behind the love triangle story? The book is written in California in 1915 and tells about the time and the place it was written. That time women actively fought for their human rights, that is reflected in the novel. One of the items, supported in the book, is that the typical

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