Also, her lack of intelligence has left her with no job and an inability to get a job. In the story, there are many reasons contributing to Jean’s feeling of emptiness and difficulty in her life. To begin, her husband, Ross feels as though he has married beneath himself, and he does not love her anymore. Their marriage was most likely caused by Jean getting pregnant with their son, which made Ross feel like he had to marry her out of force. In the story, Ross specifically tells their son, Kevin that he should try not to marry beneath himself because he will end up stuck in the same situation as him.
As can be inferred, her heart is a major hindrance in their lives, and is constantly needing attention. Another role the heart plays in the story is Mrs. Mallard’s liberation. She feels oppressed by her marriage and her husband, and wants to live for herself. When she goes to the room by herself and sits in the large, comfortable chair, she whispers to herself, “Free! Body and soul, free!.” This shows that she feels like her heart, her soul, is trapped by her marriage, and with the news of the death of her husband, she is first filled with grief, because she did love him, but later with glee when she realizes that she is free.
His poor treatment there is more shocking because he has been drawn as a character who had, “worked hard” and ”owed nothing to any man.” Mrs Edwards, the daughter, is confused at first by the nun’s reaction to seeing her. When the nun asks, “Is your father lighter or darker than you?” she begins to realize that he will not be admitted there. The nun sends them away and delivers the platitude, “God bless you dear”. Mrs Edwards replies “and God pity you sister”. Her father dies at home, and she has endured the agony of watching him die.
I know that I could let my 10 year old daughter walk to school by herself, but with shooting all the time I walk her to school. Sometimes, I get scared just sitting in my house doing nothing. It’s crazy to know that you are not even safe in your own home. The gangs are taking over society and holding us hostage in our homes. I don’t let my kids play outside, because of the violence.
"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.
Iris’ great mind deteriorates until she is reduced to a mere remnant of her former self, unable to perform simple tasks and completely reliant on her, at times frustrated, yet devoted husband John, who cares for her in their home until her death. Alzheimer’s disease had a profound effect on Iris, as well as her family and friends. Iris goes from being a tremendously successful novelist to not understanding which side of an open door she should pass in order to get through it. As she loses touch with reality and experiences more and more difficulty in speaking and understanding, the most moving scenes are the ones that show the suffering that her husband goes through. As the disease was beginning to set in, Iris begins showing signs of forgetfulness, but it never appears the viewer that John truly understands what is happening.
For both of these characters, the relationships they have with their parents are dysfunctional. Communication tends to be stiff and shallow in depth. These fractured relationships serve as the root of how the two characters change throughout their stories. For Cinderella, her father forced her into accepting a new family while she was grieving the loss of her mother. As for Harold, he was continually fed a strict, religious lifestyle and pressured by his decisions.
Gertrude is a hard to read character, but the guilt of her actions with Claudius and her deceased husband comes out when she cry’s, “O Hamlet, speak no more./ thou turn’st my eyes into my very soul,/ and there I see such black and grained spots/as will not leave their tinct.”(III, IV, 89-91). Hamlet berated her to the point where she shows all the bottled shames she’s been concealing, showing her true superego. Hamlet main personality is his superego, which he doesn’t acknowledge, yet let’s out often. In this situation he feels he’s a disappointment to his father and guilty for not reprimanding his sinful uncle in comparison to Fortinbras, saying, “How stand I then,/ that have a father kill’d, a mother stain’d,/excitements of my reason and blood,/ and let all sleep, while to my shame I see/twenty thousand men that, for a fantasy and trick of fame,/ go to their graves like beds…”(IV, IIV, 53-65). In a similar event, Hamlet, months after his father murder, acknowledges his lack of action, his overbearing guilt, and his masked fear of confrontation when he self criticizes, “Swounds, I should take it: for it cannot be/ but I am pigeon-liver’d and lack gall/to make oppression bitter, or ere this/ I should ha’ fatted all the region kites/ with this slave’s offal.”(II, II, 563-566).
Emily has a house that nobody has been to in over ten years (with exception of her Negro servant). Emily and her father had a deal going with a mayor named Colonel Sartorius that stated she did not have to pay taxes. Years passed, Emily’s father died, and her husband-to-be/sweetheart deserted her shortly after. In the aftermath of these losses, Emily rarely left her house. Her home gave off a horrid smell and the town’s people were not happy that she wasn’t paying taxes.
Throughout “Long Day’s Journey into Night” by Eugene O’Neill, the issue of the past is one that is brought up quite often, by the entire Tyrone family. Mary; the mother; resents that she has never been able to feel at home, while also battling her addiction to morphine because her husband was too stingy to pay for a real doctor. As well as the men of the family’s addiction to alcohol. The children hate their father for his cheap ways and for the way they were brought up. And lastly, Tyrone resents taking on a family, because it kept him from making his “big break” as an actor.