Charlie would replace himself with a governess because he believes that his business job will not allow him time to raise a child. His good intentions are never questioned, but he is longing for a life that was lost in the past. Charlie is influenced by the guilt of possibly playing a part in his wife’s death and abandoning his daughter. He is trying to make up for that by substituting his love with material things, believing that money can buy happiness. It is obvious that Charlie is disgusted and mortified by his past, which is shown by these passages: “All the catering to vice and waste was on an utterly childish scale.” “His first feeling was one of awe that he had actually, in his mature years, stolen a tricycle and pedaled Lorraine all over the Étoile between the small hours and dawn.
“‘You’re afraid, Nana, she might have said. You’re afraid that I might find the happiness you never had. And you don’t want me to be happy. You don’t want a good life for me. You’re the one with the wretched heart.’” (Hosseini 27) After her mother’s death, Mariam faces a father who refuses to acknowledge her due to her harami status, and she is sent off to be married to a strange man in a different city just so her father doesn’t have to see her.
This differs from how Lily acts because Lily relies on others to help make her happy. One of the reasons that June does not want to marry Neil is because she does not want to admit that she might actually need him. She is afraid of letting someone know that she needs them because the last time she fell in love he left her. “Ever since Melvin Edwards backed out of your wedding all those years back, you’ve been afraid of love, refusing to take a chance” (211). August knows that June is afraid to fall in love again because the last man that she fell in love with left her.
Nora’s father took hold over her life by molding her to behave in the manner that he saw fit, “‘When I lived at home with Papa, he told me all of his opinions, so I had the same ones too; or if they were different I hid them, since he wouldn’t have cared for that’” (Ibsen 747). Nora did everything to please the men in her life. This attitude started with her father and then eventually carried on into her marriage, which only left her unhappy in her life decisions. Nora gave up who she was and what she believed in so that she could be seen as the perfect daughter and wife. By leaving her family and starting a life of her own Nora gains the ability to control her own life and form her own ideas and opinions.
There are two plots in the novel, you have the present day plot which follows Becca on her search for Gemma’s past and the fairy tale plot, which follows Gemma’s telling of Briar Rose to her 3 granddaughters. Story telling plays an important role to Becca, Gemma and Josef and they play a significant part in the novel. Everyone in the story has a story to tell. Becca’s story is about her going to Poland to find out the truth about her Grandmothers past,
Conrad’s problem with Beth is that he feels like she won’t forgive him for the death of his brother and her son Buck. Tension builds up in their relationship because of Beth’s inability to forgive Conrad. When Conrad tries to talk about it and work things out with Beth changes the subject or walks away. This is a problem because all Conrad wants from Beth is for her to listen to him and talk about certain emotions. Its part of Beth’s perfectionist personality to not talk about the mess-ups of the past and to move on like nothing happened.
With necessary communication, the relationships in a family can be maintained smoothly. However, a family’s relationships can be easily destroyed by miscommunications. The character Sister is one of the most important characters in the story. Sister is lack of communication with her family, clouding her view of the world by her narrowed-mind, which deepens her family’s misunderstanding of her, even results herself in leaving home, and moving into the post office. In the story, Stella-Rondo, who is the younger sister of Sister, tries to turn Papa-Daddy against Sister, and tells a lie to Papa-Daddy that Sister thinks he should have cut his beard.
She shares with Lennie about the puny relationship between her and Curley. Here we have evidence that she doesn’t really love Curley; she just married him because she had to get married. ‘I don’t like Curley, he aint a nice fella’. This tells us that she is lonely in her relationship; she tries to look good around the ranch-the only place she can go-just to get a hint of what life could have been like if her dreams were reality. There aren’t any women she
A Doll House Project #2-DRAMATIC STRUCTURE/ MAIN IDEA Meghan Sigwarth March 12, 2008 From the start, the title, A Doll House, evokes images of a beautiful, picture perfect house with a model family to live the charmed life. In this play the word doll is used metaphorically to help describe Nora, the play’s main character and protagonist. It is her story, and it is in her that we see the most significant change. Now people play with dolls to explore their imaginations and escape reality, but Nora actually lives in that false reality, a plastic little Barbie to entertain her husband Torvald. Similarly, as a doll can’t talk or hold opinions, Nora is not allowed to show her true feelings and must pretend everything is perfect to make “Torvald darling” happy.
She is hiding it from her husband because he didn’t let her write anything or do anything, because in Victorian times, women had less opportunity than men. Also women had to listen to what their husbands said as they were the heads of the house. The husband didn’t believe his wife which shows gender role and creates marital problem when he come to know that he was wrong about not believing her and she was mentally