I was greeted with a smile and politely asked if I was dining alone or awaiting a party. The only difficulty I faced, was trying to understand the greeter’s accent. I found this greeting very interesting because I had my girlfriend on the way and seating arrangements could be made prior to her arrival. The host asked me if I would like to leave a name and they would direct her to my table when she arrived. That provided me with a peace of mind of looking up every time for her coming in the restaurant and having to navigate her to our table.
The story begins in the kitchen one evening after supper. Vern and his wife – the narrator who remains unnamed – are spying on their neighbors as they do most every night. They watch as the gentleman neighbor walks outside and stands at his wife’s window to watch her undress. Although the narrator claims not to like the activity, and many times refers to the neighbor woman as “trash”, she continues to watch with Vern every night. The life that Vern and his wife lead is shown to be very mediocre and even a little mundane.
Throughout the novels, Frank McCourt, the protagonist in Angela’s Ashes and Paul Morel, the protagonist in Sons and Lovers face many similar family issues. In the novel Sons and Lovers, Paul grows up living with an alcoholic father. Paul’s father, Walter Morel, is does not support his family and is never home because he is always out wasting away his money on alcohol. Walter is also a violent drunk who comes home from the bar and fights with his wife every night due to her endless nagging. “She tried to force him to face things.
Nguyen’s father was desperate to raise high achieving children, believing the sacrifices he and his wife had made were far too great for them not to be. From a young age the Nguyen children were brutally caned and publically humiliated for anything below a report card “A”. Their lives revolved around working seven days a week in the family restaurant, stopping only to complete homework and household chores, and scrabbling desperately to live up to the tremendous pressure their father placed upon them. Nguyen’s father controlled every hour of her and her siblings lives and when any situation fell out of his control, they were forced to suffer the full force of his anger. However, as a very young woman Nguyen recognised the injustice she had been dealt and acknowledged that she deserved better, she ran away from home and went into hiding, never to have direct contact with her father again, despite the ultimate shame it would cast over her family.
Toula is raised in the traditional Greek culture where she does as her parents, especially her father says. She has issues with the control that her father has on her life. She works in the family a restaurant called “Dancing Zorba’s.” and listens to her father as he voices his views about Toula not being married to a nice Greek boy and spitting out babies every year as a good Greek woman should do. Toula is struggling with the traditional values of her culture and the limited ambitions that are being set for her by her father. In this movie we see a traditional Greek husband and wife that moved to the United States to have a better life and their children dealing with conflicting cultures of the old country and the new country that they have grown up in.
Likewise, the hardships Tom had to endure as a child toughened his soul and sharpened his mind. Abandoned by his alcoholic father, Tom lived in “a miserable tworoom tenement” (Anderson 650) with his mom and siblings. The situation went from bad to worse when his mother passed away, leaving her little children uncared for. Tom, who was just 10 years old at that time, forced himself to overcome grief and to hold himself together for the sake of his siblings. He even shoved his father off in the funeral of his mother and worked arduously to fend for his family.
Dubliners: Theme Analysis Theme Analysis Poverty Although Joyce was born into a well-to-do family, his father's drinking soon drove the family into poverty. As a result, poverty is one of the major thematic concerns in Dubliners. Although Joyce never refers to his characters as "poor," he shows us their status through details. For instance, in "Two Gallants," Lenehan's abject poverty can be observed by the meager meal he consumes. He hasn't eaten since breakfast and late at night while he waits for Corley to return with money, he orders a meal of peas and vinegar with a bottle of ginger beer for his dinner.
He drank. He stole the grocery money and disappeared for days. As the dysfunction of the family escalated, Jeannette and her brother and sisters had to fend for themselves, supporting one another as they weathered their parents' betrayals and, finally, found the resources and will to leave home. The climax occurs when Maureen becomes mentally incompetent and the family argues over whose to blame. What is so astonishing
Un-fortune things don’t work out the way she wants it to. Susie watches her family and friends fall apart in her heaven. She watches her father struggle to nail the man he suspects who killed his daughter, her mother commit adultery and leave the family, and the man who murdered her skip town and feel the guilt catch up with him where ever he goes.Jack Salmon was a father of three. Susie 14, Lindsay 13, and Buckley 5. Jack also had a lovely wife, Abigail.
Christopher's problems required special attention of his father who has to cook his meals which involved his eating habits, clean his clothes, look after him on weekends and when he gets sick or into trouble. Christopher's problems are mostly the reason why his parents got divorced as they both had different opinions about how to deal with him. One day Christopher sees his neighbors dog wellington dead on the garden and he hold him still until the police arrived that became a big problem for christopher because as the police man touched him he punched the policeman, and christopher was blamed and considered guilty because of his