Poor Curley’s wife! Curley’s wife is a victim. She is a victim because she suffered through a lot when she was young or before she was married and also after her marriage.In this scene Curleys wife was flirting with lennie and she said “I get Lonely. You can talk to people but I can’t talk to nobody but Curley. Else he gets mad.
His sister is a prostitute. His son is a thief and murderer, and he is going to have a grandchild with no name. “The tribe was broken, and would be mended no more” (120). He knows the tribe is gone and will never be together again. Johannesburg has torn his family apart.
How does Martin portray the character of Manon and her attitudes up until the time of her Mother’s death? In the opening pages, Manon repeatedly refers to her husband as “him”, which is shown in the 3rd person pronoun which gives the impression that he has no respect and she has no respect for him, therefore he has not been given a name. This shows that Manon has a negative attitude towards her husband as she believes he does not deserve a name as he is unworthy due to the treatment he has given Manon. As a result, this leads people to believe that there is no love between Manon and her husband because if he was given a name it would show a loving connection. Therefore, I believe Manon hates her husband.
Williams feels that women should be looked down upon because of his cruel relationship with his mother and sister overpowering him in the past. Williams interprets some part of his life in the plays, like his drinking habits and uses of emotions but most portrayed in women since he was gay. In Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Women portray these characteristics in Big Mama and Margaret. Big Mama is very lonely and she is looked down upon by Big Daddy and didn’t show any affection towards her at all. Margaret is very lonely because Brick; her husband, didn’t show any love for her.
In this decaying community, the struggles and achievements of society are reflected in that of its families, elucidated through Stephen Kumalo’s attempts to reunite his own family. The fragmentation of Kumalo’s family is mirrored by the illness of both the tribal and modern communities. Soon upon his arrival at Johannesburg, Kumalo finds his sister, Gertrude, who has become a liquor seller and a prostitute. Weeping in regret for her corrupt actions, she grieves, “‘I do not like Johannesburg’...I am a bad woman, my brother. I am no woman to go back” (61).
Family structure was destroyed because parent had separated and she had a single parenting style from the age of 16. This caused a role strain on her mum financially since she had to provide for her college daughter. This made her mum hypercritical for the things she did. She had friends in college whom she was close to. Her boyfriend who introduced her to drugs such as cocaine caused her to become an addict.
Dimitry Dimitrich Gurov a native of Moscow meets the young charming lady, Anna Sergeyenva in Yalta, a famous tourist attraction in Russia. Gurov is trapped in a married life and always seems to run away from it. He is unfaithful to his wife and hates being at home with his family and considers his wife to be of limited intelligence. Anna is also trapped in married life and runs away from it as much as she can. She calls her husband a 'flunkey' and does not even know what he does.
This description is simplistic, it only allows us to see that he too has expensive tastes that do not match the income he is providing. The true character of Paul’s father is shown through the eyes of Paul’s mother and the blame she places on him for their “unlucky” situation. While having a conversation with Paul, his mother shows her distain for his father by blaming their troubles on him saying bitterly “it’s because your father has no luck” (151). Her direct blame on his father initiates Paul’s obsession achieving luck and later to his death. As the story unfolds, it is evident the Paul is seeking love from his mother, but Hester is incapable of that love only showing him the need for more
We soon find that Dora is a lonely, bitter woman who, instead of mailing the letters she was paid to write, scoffs at them, tears them up and throws them away. Dora finds the letter Josqué mother wrote to his father particularly appalling, declaring Josqué's father a drunk who probably abused and abandoned them, something she can relate to being that her father was a nuisance to her, and stuffs the letter in her drawer with the others. Dora feels little to no remorse for not delivering the letters. Her main concern is herself. Josqué and his mother return to Dora to write another letter to his father, this time in a slightly more endearing tone than the previous letter.
Blanche’s intimacies created her downfall as they weren’t permanent. After Blanches husband committed suicide Blanche was alone and felt the need to be intimate with many men so that she wouldn’t be alone, she thought that the men were helping to detach herself from the horrors of her life and stop herself from acknowledging her guilt from her husband’s suicide; Critic Kathleen Margaret Lant claims ‘Williams does consider Blanche guilty for not saving her husband from his