Wildwood Short Story

The woman previously stated that she forces herself on the ones she is not supposed to love, and she is forcing herself on her own sister. She is using her sister to fill the void of emptiness that she felt when she was younger, because she had no idea how to love someone. During the same incident the woman reflects on her actions she committed as a child and stated “I remember knowing then that I was applying force and was getting away with it” (pg. 265). This realization is the prime reason for the woman’s behavior as an adult; using force to get what she

While dealing with the frustration with her sister, she experience horrendous illnesses that causes her to isolate herself. Sulking about her husband cheating on her and as she locks herself it seems as if she could attempt suicide at anytime. After revealing her death Rosaura is truly the most unfortunate in the novel. Overall, Rosaura didn’t have any desires to pursue which allowed Mama Elena restrict her from anything

Instead of leaving Phoebe in those awful conditions, she decides to take Phoebe to be her daughter. It is best stated by Edwards when she writes, ”In every end, then, a beginning.” (Edwards.68). Caroline’s decision ends the life that she knew and throws her into the life of being a mother. Caroline leaves everything behind for the betterment of Phoebe’s life.

She couldn’t handle it anymore so she ended her own life. Family played a big part in who Lily will be and who May

For example, in the first few paragraphs, we get a hint of how Connie’s mother is constantly nagging and complaining about how vain she is and how she is nothing like her sister. Speaking from a logical standpoint we can say that this negative backlash from her mother is upsetting to her, as it should be for any normal human being. Since she is receiving such negative attention in her home she goes out to seek “positive” attention. Her mother’s continuous praising of how great Connie’s sister June is, and how much better she is than her can be draining and irritating. Connie could just be going out to get the praise and attention that she needs or “deserves”.

She also the girl who would reacts in rash and aggressive to protect the relationship that she has with Sourdi. After heard Sourdi cried from the phone, she assumed that Sourdi in trouble.

Death take you all – you and your father” (Euripides 20). Her irrational decision is caused by the misery she is in, and it overrules her rational thinking. The threatening tone she gives her children helps illustrate the fact that she plans to have death take her children & Jason, due to Jason’s betrayal to her. Even her children are endangered due to her irate state of mind. Furthermore, this connects to

Soldiers who have been to war can become violent. After living through so much killing, can they be blamed for their violence? Yet, women who have not done anything wrong have to deal with that abuse. In the novel, there are three girls whom the soldier 's with Kien are messing around with. One day they cannot find them, but Kien finds a bra with blood.

Soon she would finally to her senses and realized the true dangers of the revolution. A violent, merciless, and just all out cruel man backed by an entire army was after Dede’s sisters. The Mirabal sisters were the most wanted people in the entire Dominican Republic and had barely any weapons to defend themselves.

Granny's last moments were spent resenting God because he had not given her longer to bury her secrets and hide a secret affair that would shatter her children's expectations of her; a very conceited thought for a woman lying on her deathbed. Porter reveals Granny Weatherall's secretive and

Josie doesn’t like the fact that her mother won’t stick up for herself against her

But with her mother dead and her father bitter, those feelings are foreign to Lily. Especially since she is trapped, tormenting herself over the fact that she was the one to shoot her mother. Despite it being a terrible accident. Sue Monk Kidd expresses to the readers how much death can trap someone in their own mind through Lily. You can see the full extent of her suffering when she sobbed the truth to August “It was my fault she died.

At this moment, Tan and her mother’s relationship had become hateful and hostile because of the things that were said, by both, the mother and the daughter. The hurtful comments were all caused by

A second example of regionalism is can be viewed in A Matter of Prejudice by Kate Chopin. Madam Carambeaua was a very prejudice French women who did not like children, hated pets, white servants, Americans and other races and everyone of different faiths. At the point of the story, two young children were chasing each other when a young American girl ran into Carambeaua 's lap. When this happened, Madam began greatly annoyed but discovered the young girl had a high temperature and would nurse the girl back to health. As she would nurse the girl back to health, she would blame the sickness on her American parents.

At first, she is portrayed as a fragile, grieving widow, but we later learn that she is relieved. She becomes “free” now that her husband has passed. Ms. Mallard learns that she can finally regain control of her life and can embrace the freedom existing from Mr. Mallard’s death. She is depicted as joyous due to the passing of her husband. The joyous behavior and the use of the term “free”, shows a woman who felt captive in the role of wife.