The values of heritage seem to have been lost with the gain of knowledge when Dee has gone to college. Her actions she displays when she comes home for a visit are shocking to her family. It is almost as if Dee is using them for a show, rather than a visit that has been well overdue. It’s one thing to know what heritage is but another to understand what your heritage is. Mama was always one who could not say “no” to her daughter and she always tried to please her regardless if her daughter appreciated it or not.
Chapter 11 is a crucial point in Ruth’s life it’s about what every girl wants and searches for in life to find true love and even love from family. Ruth finds out that her family dinners are very different from others and she realizes things about her own family that she never knew. Ruth uses food to bring her and her boyfriend together(Doug) and her family more close to one another and even close to Doug and shows how different their families are from one another. Ruth starts this chapter in a state of as being lonely and highlights on the end Ruth’s college career and how her mom wants her to move home but Ruth really wants to finish graduate school but her parents refuse to pay because they don’t want her to. She gets a job to pay for
It was either keep her marriage with Curley or get a divorce and pursue her acting. Many women in the 1900’s were faced with this same decision. Curley’s wife is the only women on the farm, making it hard to make friends. This makes life on the farm boring. During the novel Curley’s wife is often found wondering around the farm “looking for Curley”.
Growing up Dee was the one that got to attend school in Augusta because Mama and the community raised the money for her to go. Maggie barely has an education because she was not chosen to go to school Dee was though. Maggie is not resentful toward them about it she has simply moved on. As Dee is ransacking through the trunk Maggie gets upset. Maggie knows she deserves the quilts made by her grandmother and aunt far more than Dee does but of course Dee thinks that everything is about her and that she should have what she wants.
They were shocked that she was taking over this role because the women’s job was to simply take care their husbands and children. Eliza Lucas proved to many that women have the ability of doing it all she directed the planting of crops, paid the bills and oversaw the selling of the crops and she would also make time to do the traditional tasks such as attending teas, visiting the sick and learning how to dance and play piano (9). She chose to not follow the traditional roles and in turn empowered
But there’s other ways that made me dislike him also; he steals the money that is for his own daughter’s funeral just so he can go to the Shebeen and get drunk, I don’t understand why won’t he just get a job and use his money instead of the families saving. He isn’t much of a gentleman; he is such a useless
She had been receiving letters from her ex-husband saying "How are you and the boys? Bet they’re getting big," (1, Medicine River). The clear absence of the father has caused Rose to become independent and have to raise her children by herself, as well as support her kids with no financial aid from a husband, an uncommon front for a woman in a time where men dominated. In addition to the independence and self-reliance of Bertha and Rose, Louise, a female who lives in Medicine River with Will, possesses these same characteristics. She has found a way to succeed at a job in a time when it occurs very seldomly for women.
Recognition Ruined In The Road Henry’s wife, Elisa was intelligent and passionate about her gardening and having the well known qualities of being a woman and wife, although she lived a unsatisfying and under stimulated life, in which her husband didn’t know of. Elissa was talented and was longing for people to recognize her and what she experts in. In the story “The Chrysanthemums” by John Steinbeck Elisa doesn’t have a professional career, no children to take care of, and even though she is interested in her husband’s business on the ranch he’s is not fully conscious of that. Elisa’s wish to travel the world and to work on the farm with Henry is implied, but it is expressed to be a unfit desire for a woman. Elisa puts all her energy and time into perfecting the chrysanthemum garden and her house working skills, even though she would rather be doing more exciting things.
The first paragraph will be about curleys wife, then George then Lennie. The characters in this novel struggle to make ends meet and follow their dreams. Curleys wife is a beautiful but permiscious woman who lives on the ranch where lennie and George work. Although married to Curley she has other affections with the men who work on the ranch. She explains to lennie how she would be without curly "coulda been in the movies, an had nice clothes" (Steinbeck
Mama finally stands up to Dee and realizes the beauty in Maggie. Mama is a simple woman. She has worked hard her entire life and has done the best to support her family. Although Mama may not agree with Dee, it seems as if she is caught up in Dee’s opinions and behavior. Almost as if she wants to be enough for Dee because she knows she never has been.