Like the ranch-hands, she is desperately lonely and has broken dreams of a better life. Curley’s wife: Of Mice and Menis not kind in its portrayal of women. In fact, women are treated with contempt throughout the course of the book. Steinbeck generally depicts women as troublemakers who bring ruin on men and drive them mad. Curley’s wife, who walks the ranch as a temptress, seems to be a prime example of this destructive tendency—Curley’s already bad temper has only worsened since their wedding.
In the short story, “A Worn Path” Phoenix Jackson, the main character, is an elderly lady who lives in the country and walks mils to get to the city to receive medicine for her grandson. Unfortunately for Phoenix, many obstacles hinder her on her walk to the city. The restrictions that cause problems for Phoenix on her trip to the city are her age, the environment, racism, and her mental health. Phoenix’s age causes her many problems on her travel to receive medicine for her grandson. “Phoenix’s eyes were blue with age and her skin had branching wringles as if she had a branching tree on her forehead.” The white hunger asked her “how old are you, Granny?” and she replied “there is no telling mister, no telling.” These are two quotes directly from the short story “A Worn Path” that describe Phoenix’s age.
Unfortunatly, Chiyo's family has been struck with tragedy as her mother has bone cancer and is constantly in agonizing pain. Seeing as the story takes place in the past, The doctor in the small town does not know what Bone cancer is, and so it is enevitable that Chiyo's mother will die soon. Chiyo's father is very poor and is advised to sell something in order to buy the mother a beautiful kimono in which for her to die in. The old Sakamoto, (Chiyo's father) is older then many because Chiyo is is second family and is so old, he is unable to care for his daughters. So he sells his two daughters to a man named Mr.Tanaka whom Chiyo has taking a liking to.
Throughout the story Granny Watherall expresses herself through verbal communications and also her inner self-talk. Granny appears to be in denial of her death and has a hard time accepting her sickness that is pointed out by others. Fuming with anger and depression from her past, Granny cannot let go the thought of things such as, her first love George who left her on the wedding, to the death of her husband John and her daughter Hapsy. Granny’s psychological stresses give her difficulties in her death bed. In 1969, a psychologist by the name of Elisabeth Kübler-Ross came up with a method of supporting and counseling personal trauma associated with death and dying called “Stages of Grief”.
Eudora Welty “A Worn Path” “She wore a dark striped dress reaching down to her shoe tops,…,all neat and tidy, but every time she took a step she might have fallen over her shoelaces, which dragged from her unlaced shoes”,- an elderly woman named Phoenix Jackson described as very poor, old person, living in desperation. She is making a journey into town to find medicine for her sick grandson, which we realize later, when she finally arrives at the town. She is old and probably not healthy, we can understand that liong trip to the town is not easy t5o her, but she is still very lively, because she is willing to go through this intricate journey yet again, and it also seems that Phoenix is very fond of life itself, since she talks to the animals in the forest, “out of my way, all you foxes, owls, beetles, jack rabbits...”. Welty writes, “her hair came down on her neck in the frailest of ringlets, still black” , which shows that she is still far from being dead. When Phoenix meets the scarecrow, another symbol for death, she dances with it, as if representing that death is not near.
She is a lonely character constantly searching for attention, even if it is from ranch workers, cripples and the coloured. Curley's wife is made to show her disgust at married life by being 'married two weeks an' got the eye', this makes the ranch workers towards her bitter and unhappy as they see her as a tart who has no reason to be near them as she will only lead to trouble. Steinbeck uses Curley's wife's character along with others to show that many people of that time had dreams, hers was that she 'could be in the pitchers' we find out about her dream just before her death this heightens the impact of the news. She knows that she is no longer able to fulfil her own dream, as she is no longer her own person but Curley's, she turns her anger into the form of making Curley jealous by flirting with other men. Despite the fact that she wants to believe she had a chance in the pictures she knows she had no chance after the promised
English notes Introduction- Introduce idea of loneliness and explain how there are many examples of loneliness throughout the book Talk about how most characters show signs of loneliness over the course of the storyline. Paragraph 1- Crooks Talk about Crooks loneliness Contain references to him being black, his story about his childhood and how he came to realize that he could never be friends with a white person. Refer to his confessions about 'just having someone to listen'. Mention how he regrets tormenting Lennie because he was the only person who would listen. Paragraph 2- Curley's wife Talk about how she is always hanging around on the ranch, finding excuses to get out of the house.
She published her autobiography Ghosts and Voices: Writing from Obsession in the spring of 1987 which detailed her life and all its confusion. Throughout her autobiography Cisneros creates a sense of disconnectedness with the world around her. She reveals feeling separated from society in her reading and writing. Her loneliness from being the only daughter in a family of sons and her helplessness to make friends separates her further from society. Cisneros said, “Instead of writing by inspiration, it seems we write by obsessions, of that which is most violently tugging at our psyche… there is the necessary phase of dealing with those ghosts and voices most urgently haunting us, day by day” ( 49).
A Distorted Perception In “Good Country People” by Flannery O’Connor, we find out about how symbolizing plays an enormous roll in the narrative. In the short story it tells about Hulga Hopewell, her wooden leg, and the avoidance of her inner feelings. The artificial limb she inherited at “age 10 from a hunting accident” (O’Connor 191) kept her contemptibly unsatisfied with life. Hulga was not a happy person. Throughout the story, Hulga’s, self-esteem issues contributes to her changing her biological name from Joy to Hulga.
It’s not easy for Connie to live with her mother, who constantly harps on the way Connie looks and how she doesn’t live up to her sister reputation. “If Connie’s name was mentioned it was in a disapproving tone.”[453]. Every time Connie’s mother comments anything about June’s profile, it pushed Connie unconsciously to be nothing like her sister. Mother usually complained about her about habit of looking into a mirror. The narrator states the mother’s resentment of Connie’s beauty because “her looks were gone and that was why she was always after Connie.”[451].