She was very critical of people around her, and found it very difficult to connect with anyone. This was because she found it so difficult to show how she felt. Her inability to show she emotions lead people around her to believe she didn’t care. For example: When her son John passed away, Hagar didn’t cry. This made everyone in town think that she simply didn’t feel any remorse for her son’s death.
"Sure." Unfortunately Krebs is too caught up in his own world to be his sister’s older brother and to show her why this mindset she has is wrong. There comes a point where both of Krebs’s parents are fed up with his laziness and his unwillingness to do anything with his life that his mother sits him down and tries to approach him in a more of a religious way. She speaks of God and how much they love him and want the best for him. "I'm your mother," she said.
He obviously was never close to her, due to his lack of wanting to visit her. He describes visiting her as a strenuous task. She is almost like a random person in his mind. The rest home director describes Meursault behavior the day of the funeral, “… I hadn’t wanted to see Maman, that I hadn’t cried once, and that left right after the funeral without paying my last respect at her grave”(89). A man who loved his mother would have cried a little bit at her funeral.
Here one can notice that it isn't just the narrator's point of view on Miss Emily voiced, rather the whole town's perspective on her. Another peculiar characteristic about the speaker is that the voice seems to be genderless, that is, readers are unable to gain a clear depiction on whether the narrator is a male or female: "None of the young men were quite good enough for Miss Emily and such...The day after his death all the ladies prepared to call at the house and offer condolence and aid, as is our custom," (428). Shown in this section, the narrator can neither be seen as a man nor as a woman due to the mention of "the young men" and "the ladies". The voice is given no clear gender, rather a representation of both groups and again of the entire town as a whole. "A Rose for Emily" begins during the present time and guides readers through a series of flashbacks to the past sharing Miss Emily's history.
It is generally said that when reading something you shouldn’t put much thought into opinions, take no account to biases, and should only properly consider the facts. But in many stories this general view on reading has to be broken to fully understand the text. A Rose for Emily is a feminist like southern gothic text written by the author William Faulkner and told from the view of one of the townspeople, but one that represented the thought of the town as a whole. The view of the narrator is an important part of the story, as his views, thought not really picked up on the first reading are important and a very reliable source to messages that aren’t obviously stated but should be picked up, such as the main characters insanity. The narrator shows his views quite clearly, when he remarks on events like Emily committing suicide by saying “it would be the best thing” which gives you the feeling that the narrator isn’t exactly the best person (William Faulkner, 22).
Carl is often shifted to his Auntie Beryl’s house which she doesn’t treat him with respect or kindness. “Who would love you if your own mother doesn’t?” Therefore Carl has a very low self-esteem and he feels very abandoned and lonely. He also feels that his mother did not love him and that he is in her way of doing what she wants to do. He is a very sad, lonely and confused fifteen year old teenager. Slowly we see Carl standing up for himself and his brother Harley.
This was Jennie’s case she did not have any friends because they were all jealous of her (Cooney 104). She got depressed and could not take it anymore which led her to runaway (72). In order for not letting people affect us we need to have confidence in
Fitzgerald illustrates how “money can’t buy happiness” through the relationships in The Great Gatsby. Obviously, in Tom’s marriage he feels he’s unhappy, considering he and his wife are both having affairs, which causes a divide in their marriage. Tom's unhappiness is probably related to him not being able to play football. In the first chapter, Tom talks about how he loved football and how happy he was when he played it. He doesn't play it anymore and nothing seems to satisfy him; not even his wife.
It is evident that he is not happy being married to Daisy because he has an affair with Myrtle. This is another example of how money does not necessarily buy happiness. It is ironic that Daisy kills Myrtle because although she didn’t mean to kill her she might have been jealous that she is everything that Daisy is not to Tom. Therefore she feels a need to get Myrtle out of the
Tobe would most likely reported of his dedication to his job. He would have told us the story of how he was able to work for Miss Emily. He reports of how hard it was to live with her and not to be able to tell anyone of the murder of Homer Barron. He debated over and over in his head if he should tell someone or report it. He would have ended up just telling himself that once this crazy women was dead, that he will just open the door and walk into the sun and be free.