The Living Situation Affects Carrie’s Moral Judgements In Theodore Dreiser’s Sister Carrie, Carrie Meeber, a poor young provincial girl without too much life and working experience, comes to alluring Chicago alone. She is with hope and dream. She wants live in a high level life in urban, yet she must suit the law of the jungle. At the same time, she has to face two choices: “Either she falls into saving hands and becomes better, to rapidly assumes the cosmopolitan standard of virtue and becomes worse (Dreiser 86).” As an innocent type, Carrie could face difficulties maintaining her moral principle in a dog-eat-dog world, therefore, Carrie’s moral judgements were challenged by her living environment. For Carrie, the current priority issue is how to survive in the city. The city is flourishing and isolated. She desires to feel warmth, understanding, and supporting but in vain. Without time to adapt the new environment of living or appreciate the great prosperity of the city, she is urged to devote herself to look for a job. Otherwise, she cannot pay for her callous brother in law’s rent; she does not have money to buy a heavy coat to protect her away from the cold …show more content…
Looking for a job is not an easy mission, especially for a young girl who does not have any working experience. She has never worked in a factory and does not know how to type. Although she is hired by a shoes factory as a worker finally, her job is unsatisfactory, a too low salary, too terrible working environment, and too tired. She is ill and removed by the factory immediately. Her inner world is frustrated and her moral judgements are unstable. In addition, her sister’s life is like a mirror and seems to tell her future life — nonstop working hard but still living in a so small and ragged space with her husband and child. This life is not she wanted and she feels disillusioned with honest and diligent overworked
Her anecdote comes to tell of her story of growing to understand that life doesn't need many wants to be at peace with it, it’s all about letting it come to them through a simple task or hobby such as reading, just as her dad
Kelsey’s father often worked late and long hours which made him very absent in her life. Even though he was absent he still made time to make her feel that she could not pursue her dreams. According to Kelsey, her father did not believe in her and all she wanted to do was prove him wrong (CITE). Her social life suffered greatly due to the choices that she made. She had very few friends since her behavior deterred them.
She wants what she did not have: big house, better neighborhood, and all the riches that she can buy. However, her father tells her to not think like that because that is not the reason that makes her, her, but instead it is her background and her family. This was something that I found quite fascinating because this was how I perceived my life when I was in high school. Sophia’s perseverance and dedication to moving forward is impeccable. “I wish we lived on the other side of town.”
She works all the time, yet the only source of freedom she gets to have is sitting on the front porch, dreaming of leaving somewhere far away. Also she can only go when her aunt
Her parents weren’t very good role models to her and her older sister, as her mother had suffered from panic attacks and had a secret drinking problem. Her family was
Right alongside the woman, students read about today in their textbooks, like Dorothea Dix or Emerson and Thoreau, is Louisa May Alcott. This 19th century author with a modern perspective on life used her unique family dynamic of four sisters to fuel her writing as a passion and career. However, before she was an author she was just a woman. A woman, whose shoulders were burdened expenses and responsibilities of being the breadwinner in her house and financially supporting her family. However, Alcott accepted the struggle and transformed it into success through working various jobs such as, “tailor, laundress, housekeeper, tutor, writer, and editor of Merry's Museum” (Snodgrass).
She begins by talking about her college experience of how her own professors and fellow students believed and “always portrayed the poor as shiftless, mindless, lazy, dishonest, and unworthy” (Paragraph 5). This experience shocked her because she never grew up materialistic. She brings up the fact that she is the person with the strong and good values that she has today because she grew up in a poor family. In culture, the poor are always being stereotyped.
In Best Foot Forward, by Joan Bauer, Jenna Boller is the main character who is trying to follow the rules and do anything she can to not end up like her alcoholic father who left. She wanted to be a great employee at Gladstone Shoes for her wonderful boss while helping Tanner Cobb, a new employee who began working at Gladstone Shoes because he felt guilty for stealing a pair of shoes for his family. Jenna knew about Tanner’s past and his parole officer, but she also knew that he was a great person who only stole because he needed to support his family. However, this plan changes when it is discovered that one of the factories is in Thailand, which employs children and treats them cruelly. This is a problem because Gladstone Shoes are known
While reading the story, you can tell in the narrators’ tone that she feels rejected and excluded. She is not happy and I’m sure, just like her family, she wonders “why her?” She is rejected and never accepted for who she really is. She is different. She’s not like anyone else
Humans live in a world where moral values are very clearly set determining what is good and what is bad. We know what scares us and how racism should be treated. Nevertheless, this was not the case back in Alabama during the 1950s. In the famous novel To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee narrates the lives of the people of Maycomb, Alabama, focusing on the story of Scout and Jem Finch, and the case of a said to be rape. In this emotion filled narrative, readers learn how life was back then not only in general, but for the separate social statuses that there was.
Poverty and Prejudice In the novel The Street by Ann Petry Lutie Johnson is a single mother living in Harlem trying to support herself and her son. Petry shows how poverty in Harlem had a cause, an effect, and how people reacted to poverty. Lutie, Boots, and an unnamed, stabbed girl’s lives are shaped by the poverty they live in. Racism is the cause of the poverty that Lutie lived in during the 1940s and she struggles with how black people like herself are forced to live in more poverty than white people.
While many people would have given up within the first week or so of their hardships of being alone in such a large, unforgiving city, Doris keeps her head held high. Though, this is because she is willing to do whatever it takes to survive. In a letter to her mother, Doris remarks: " . . .you [my mother] were poor as I am poor, you slept with men because you liked them or because you needed money - I do that too" (Keun 73). Doris 's self-candor is both her best and worst quality: it helps her make sense of her surroundings and stay a step ahead of others, though she often is self-critical because of it.
The woman’s sister challenges the concept of development, because she still holds on to her tribe’s traditional values and refuses to try to save her sister’s life. She doesn’t want to try to take her to the hospital so she might be able to survive, even if the actual science could probably cure her. Her judgment is not totally fair, because she is biased by her values. Even though it is totally understandable that the tribe and the sick woman herself want to stick to their traditions, their mentally is completely opposite to the concept of development.
Looking for a job is not an easy mission, especially for a young girl who does not have working experience. She has never worked in a factory and does not know how to type in office. She is not competitive. Although she is hired by a shoes factory as a worker finally, her job is unsatisfactory, a too low salary, a too terrible working environment, and too tired. The lower condition of the factory leads her to get ill and then she loses her only job and source of income.
She helps husband to make a career, puts husband's interests above her own desires. The husband quietly is growing in the eyes of his colleagues and in his own