This shows she is obsessive because she has never spoken to him to know so many personal facts about him. Lastly, the narrator proves that she is obsessed with the boy because the narrator started to do things she disliked so she could see her love. Since she knew that her ‘young Marlon Brando look a like’ worked at the supermarket near her apartment on weekends she would desperately go to the supermarket just to see her love: “I pounced on every opportunity from Friday to late Sunday afternoon to go after eggs, cigarettes, milk (I tried to drink as much as possible although I hated the stuff)…”. In the quote the girl clearly proves to the reader that she would do nearly anything for her love, even if it is something she dislikes. If she was really in love with the boy, she would wait for things to run out naturally rather then making sure the products run out quickly and running out your own families’ money just to meet her own personal needs, which is to see the face of her love.
Hulga over hears much of this conversation and tells her mother to “get rid of the salt of the earth.” (p.465) Hulga is suspicious of Manly, yet Mrs. Hopewell can only think about possibility of the yong man being a positive influence on her daughter. After ignoring him a dinner, Hulga waits for manly to walk him down the path. This seems totally out of character for Hulga. As Hulga lays in bed she fantasizes about seducing manly and enlightening of her view of reality. It is obvious that Hulga sees Manly as naïve to the the ways of the world.
Curley’s Wife has no name and is initially seen as the possession of her husband. She is also a good-looking lady who wears quite a bit of makeup, form-fitting dresses, and ostrich feathered-high heels. As the only woman on the ranch, Curley’s wife is lonely and sad – something her marriage to Curley only makes worse. She reveals throughout the course of the story that she is unhappy in her marriage because her husband seems to care little for her, and is really more interested in talking about himself than anything else. She’s just self-obsessed, and unable to judge herself and her position honestly.
Grandma planned a steak out and they waited until the boys came around. The end result was a boy getting his hair full of the stickiest glue ever and a broken, distorted nose. Armistice Day was a big deal in the time of the Depression. Where Grandma lived, people would gather together and they would have a turkey shoot. Grandma took over the Burgoo stew stand and charged money depending on how much Grandma knew they could spend instead of the usual dime.
Jim’s actions are exactly the opposite with what the reader is led to expect from the description of Jim and his fondness of meat. These ironic events depict Jim’s desperation, and unpredictable selfish nature. Jim believes that he can successfully deprive himself of eating meat in order to be satisfied sexually. The most ironic part of the story comes when Jim agrees to go with Alena on a “Turkey liberation mission”. While Alena thinks about “Turkey liberation mission”, Jim in contrast is thinking about inviting her to his mother’s for a turkey dinner.
* Theme- Love: characters are in a love triangle which they never escape. Ethan loves Mattie and wishes to reveal this to her, but he never truly can, and in the end they are stuck back at the Frome’s house with Zeena forever. This novel shows how Ethan maybe never even loved Zeena, he only married her because she helped Ethan’s mother while she was sick. Then Ethan has a small glimpse of love with Mattie, but it is taken away from him, and at the end of the story, it seems that their love is completely
He is ashamed of her foreign family and remembers with disgust how Jelka's father advised him on their wedding night to beat her once in a while, Their Marriage is not a nor mal because Jelka is quiet and spends her time making Jim's happy and taking care of the house. Jim's hot dinner is waiting no matter what time he comes in from the fields. Also, Jim makes no emotional connection with her and eventually looks elsewhere for companionship. Therefore, after a year of being bored with Jelka, Jim starts to long for the company of silly, chatty women and begins to go to the "Three Star," which is a brothel in Monterey where he often amused himself prior to his marriage. One particular Saturday night Jim decides to go to town and is meets his local farmer who tells him he found a slaughtered calf's remains with Jim's brand upon the hide.
He is sleeping with another woman, Bertha, and he spends all of her hard-earned money buying her trite gifts. All that keeps her happy is the prospect of going to church and her well-maintained but small house. He comes back in around dawn and steals the covers. It is clear that this is a troubled household and that Delia’s patience with her abusive husband is going to have to have some kind of resolution. In an instance of foreshadowing, she thinking, “Oh well, whatever goes over the Devil’s back, is got to come under his belly”(39) which means that she knows eventually Skyes will get what’s coming to him.
Both moving at a fast pace and lack of sensitively relates to most romantic relations and it is more then just a setting. The setting is like the relation between Jake and Marianas’ brief and meaningless. What makes Gilb’s Love in L.A. a love story is not the liaison between Jake and Mariana but between Jake, himself and his car. The infatuation or “love” that Jake has for himself and for his car is what makes this a love story. It is implied throughout the story that he thinks he is God like, this proves he is full of himself.
Circe had invited Odyseeus’s crew into her home, she filled their bowls with a wonderful stew but “Once they’d drained the bowls she filled, suddenly she struck with her wand, drove them into her pigsties, all of them bristling into swine” (Homer 237, 261-263). This shows that Circe was more worried about playing scrabble with men and turning them into animals than respecting the code of hospitality. Even when she offers hospitality in the end, she still has the motive of playing scrabble with Odysseus, and just wants that from him. Calypso is the next to be inhospitable when she keeps Odysseus against his will in her home, even when he wants to go home. This is evidenced by the fact that he was “weeping there as always, wrenching his heart with sobs and groans and anguish, gazing out over the barren sea through blinding tears”