He is very short tempered and doesn’t have much patience for her. He looks at her almost as a possession, something that makes him look good. As stated in the novel, "You are burnt beyond recognition”, he added, looking at his wife as one looks at a valuable piece of personal property which has suffered some damage" (pg. 4) To him, she’s just something he owns and has to take care of, nothing more. He may fulfill the marital contract between him and Edna, but he does not do so equally.
Lately she has begun feeling stressed out and depressed in her life. She feels as if everything is going in the wrong direction. Emily has a husband who verbally, emotionally and physically abuses her. She loves him so much but she is getting sick to the point she feels that life means nothing to her. She has come into my office seek help so that she can take control of her life.
“ Old Roger Chillingworth, throughout his life, he had been calm in temperament , kindly, though not of warm affections...but, as he proceeded, a terrible fascination, a kind of fierce...” ( Hawthorne 123.) This example shows that Throughout the novel chillingworth has changed for worse and that he used to be good and scholar-like but now he is “ugly” (Hawthorne 123). “I shall escape thee now!” ( Hawthorne 249). Here dimmesdale reveals everything and dies but while revealing this chillingworth argues and tries to stop him because he wants to do the harming and not have dimmesdale get out of his
One of her major issues she is faced with is the death of her loved ones. She has trouble coping with the world when her father dies. Her father had been a controlling figure in her life which leads Emily into denial. While in denial she refuses to give up her father's corpse unwillingly to let go and accept change. Throughout the story Emily is depicted as a woman struggling with loneliness.
The theme that exemplified the most in the novel was the theme of loneliness, which took apart Curley’s wife. The quote by Mother Teresa relates to Curley’s wife because she went through many downfalls with her situation in the story and because many things become grudging. Loneliness is something that will make people go into depression because first and for most they
Unfortunately the only way he knows how to help her it by treating her as a medical patient or as an object and not as a person who needed love, not just care. By doing this he aids to her mental decent, the last thing he meant to do. The evidence as to how much he truly loved his wife is shown at the end when he finally breaks in on his wife, and is so shocked and overcome by sadness that he faints. Unfortunately this point in the story also illustrates how far gone the narrator is, moving past her husband without recognizing him. In fact she even complains about “that man” and having to “creep over him” as she makes her
Andrea uniquely described the mother throughout the story as a person that was loosing so much, so quickly. A woman that once had it all together, however, due to a major decision she “broke-down” into a depression. A mother that was
Relationship appear to be the main cause of sorrow in both stories. Two stories works where communication and the use of accommodition come into play occur in ‘’ A Secrt Sorrow’’ by Karen Van Der Zee and ‘’ A Sorrowful Woman ‘ by Gail Godwin. The antagonists, Kai and sorrowfull huasband, try to mend there partnes despair because of the women in there, lives. Faye and the sorrowful woman struggle with personnel issues. The antagonist Kai, and sorrowful
Final Outline Thesis: In the short stories “A Rose for Emily” by William Faulkner, “Wakefield” by Nathaniel Hawthore, and “A Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin, women are portrayed as having very diverse reactions towards the abandonment of a loved one. Topic 1: Within the story, “A Rose for Emily,” Emily’s loss of her father ultimately causes her emotional insanity. “None of the young men were quite good enough for Miss Emily and such. We had long thought of them as a tableau; Miss Emily a slender figure in white in the background [...].” “When we next saw Miss Emily, she had grown fat and her hair was turning grey. During the next few years it grew greyer and greyer until it attained an even pepper-and-salt iron-gray when it ceased
Here he says that weather you kill people or take tire of car you will be punished anyway and when you will be punished you will forgot what you did and will be punished for no reason. Secondly, Misfit was forced to kill the family because they recognized him and he was scared that if he leaves them they will call cops. He didn’t wanted to the killings , but circumstances made him do the killings. He wanted to help them because they had an accident