The dramatic and situational irony found over and over throughout the text in both narrative content and style are what in effect finally show the reader this story is not to be taken at the narrator’s word: a husband and wife lease a mansion for the summer so she can ‘rest’ to cure her ‘nervous condition’; family and servants tend to her, her baby and her duties- while she quietly obsesses about wall paper. It is the ironic language Gilman uses to illustrate the dire consequences of misunderstood mental illness and the misused ‘rest cure’ that was popular at the time. The effect intensifies the story as we can appreciate the narrator’s experience from her disillusioned perspective. Initially we take the words as they come, and listen to the description of the colonial mansion, and her doting husband John. It doesn’t take long before things just ‘don’t seem to fit’, and it is within
It’s a closed meeting, which means that I think I already think I have a problem and I certainly didn’t want to be a part of this addiction. So, ‘Hi, My name is Jeanie, and I’m here to listen and see if I may have a problem in this area”. Glad that was over. Then, I heard, “I’ve asked a friend to read the 12 characteristics of Sex and Love Addicts Anonymous”. This was my cue.
In her editorial “Restraining orders hurt women,” author Carey Roberts claims, “Restraining orders are not only ineffective, they can also escalate partner conflict.” But how can she support her claim that they are ineffective? Roberts is not looking at the whole story. Although there may be a small number of cases in which her opinion is true, it is impossible to know the number of cases in which restraining orders help those victims who need them. There may be vast numbers of people who have been deterred from physical or mental abuse because they did have fear of the law’s repercussions if they were to violate a restraining order that was taken out against them. There will always be a small number of people who will, regardless of penalty,
The images in both of these literary works show a fear of being graded and judged. In Marks the speaker’s attitude in one of unresponsiveness, this is made obvious by the images she uses to compare her family’s regard for her motherly duties to school grades. “My husband gives me an A for last night’s supper, an incomplete for my ironing, a B plus in bed” My son says I am average” (Pastan 1-5). There is no emotion used in theses lines. Notice that her grades are good.
My baby sister is the one who really takes care of me after a procedure, when I come home all drugged up she has a bed made for me on the couch, she will have a glass of water there waiting for me with a snack, if I need something she is right by my side the entire time. My parents have both been by my side the entire time, they never once would get mad or frustrated with me when I was in pain or taking my frustrations out on them. If it wasn’t for my family, I don’t think that I would have been able to get through and really understand my condition. My contentment with my injuries, as well as the way I viewed myself quickly changed this past summer, as well as how I see other people. I was diagnosed with a condition called RSD (Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy).
Well yes I have one of them in my family. My Auntie, I love her to death but she is one of those people that let money take control of her life. Just like the evil daughter in the movie, my auntie never wants to come to family functions she always has an excuse or if she do come she shows up late when everything is about over with. My auntie has one son, who the family barley sees. At the end of the movie that mother dies and she asks for this one daughter that thinks she is better than
Nora behaves childishly and he enjoys treating her like a child to be instructed and indulged. Soon an old friend of Nora's, Christine Linde, arrives. She is a childless widow who is moving back to the city. Her husband left her no money, so she has tried different kinds of work, and now hopes to find some work that is not too strenuous. Nora confides to Christine that she once secretly borrowed money from a disgraced lawyer, Nils Krogstad, to save Torvald's life when he was very ill, but she has not told him in order to protect his pride.
Each of these mothers went through different hardships that kept secret for long time. The movie shows how the mothers past experiences help their daughters life. From this movie, I choose Lena who used to split bills with her husband, later divorces him. Lena’s weakness was when they had business lunches together, and she was the one who started split the meal bill half and half. Lena believes that sharing bills could make her independent and free, but the iron was different.
But she thought, ” Twice I have witnessed this, and twice I have wondered, what compels this women to feed this man? pity?care?compassion? “If expulsion were her motivation she would not reward his arrival with gifts of food”. That is how we know the women who gave the homeless man a coffee and a bag of food was not trying to rid of him, She felt sympathetic which created her compassionate act. I can relate to this story because there was a time in my life where I felt sympathy towards my best friends mother Dawn, when her son Shawn passed at such a young age.
There is a chance though that somewhere along the way the strength of human spirit can be started and deficits can be overcome. My case study is on Suzie, my mother; I will add bits of her sister Dale in relating some of Erikson’s stages of development. Suzie’s mother was an alcoholic, as was her dad. She has no memory of stage 1, or living family to relate information from, but was sure her mom took care of her, her 2 sisters, and brother as well as she could. 1.