and Mrs. Wright live in a society that is cut off from the outside world; similarly Miss Emily Grierson is isolated from the town of Jefferson. According to what is written in Trifles Mr. and Mrs. Wright where isolated from the town; their house was situated in a hollow; therefore, not much of it could be seen from outside the hollow. The Wright’s house was described as creepy and an unhappy place by the towns people. As said in Trifles by Mrs. Hale; ‘’ it never seemed a very cheerful place’’ … ‘’I wish if they re going to find any evidence they’d be about it. I don’t like this place.’’ (Giaspell 744).
They were unsafe because there were no regulations on how they were built. Some tenements didn’t even have windows or fire escapes. As a result many immigrants were caught and killed in fires (OK). Some groups tried to change the living conditions for the better. Immigrants worked in sweatshops that were dangerous.
Friedrich Engels stated in “The Condition of the Working Class in England”, a variety of characteristics of working class living conditions in England. One characteristic of working class living conditions in England stated by Friedrich Engels was that “they were generally unplanned wilderness of one-or-two storied terrace houses built of brick”. Another characteristic of working class living conditions in England was that “they were filthy and strewn with animal and vegetable refuse. Since they have neither gutters nor drains the refuse accumulates in stagnant, stinking puddles. Ventilation in the slums is inadequate owing to the hopelessly unplanned nature of these areas.” (Doc.
The beds are small and worn, "the walls [are] white washed and the floor unpainted.."(19). Nailed to the wall was an apple box which prohibited workers from setting up roots; making it easier to move in and out. This imagery painfully establishes the life a transient worker faces. Steinbeck chooses the characters language to be quite simple which is
Without running water, people didn’t bathe or wash their clothes. This was an ideal living nest for rats and fleas. Kris Hirschman author of Plagues quotes author James Cross Giblin “Because the cities had no running water; even the wealthy seldom washed their heavy clothing, or their own bodies. As a result, both rich and poor were prime targets for fleas and the diseases they carried” (Hirschman
“‘We Were Talking Jewish’: Art Spiegelman’s Maus as ‘Holocaust’ Production.” Contemporary Literature 35.4 (Winter 1994): 661-87. (This issue of the journal has not yet been bound.) Stone, Laurie. “Chasing History.” The Nation 254 (6/13 Jan. 1992): 28-29. Per AP2.N3.
Anwar Malik, a 54 year old grocer, lives with his wife Hansa and youngest son Iqbal. He migrated from Pakistan as a young Muslim who uses Punjabi and Urdu as his first language, but speaks English to his wife in their shop. Usually an active and hardworking man, Anwar had been feeling increasingly tired and lethargic, and was always thirsty. Hansa noticed him being less active around the house and going to the toilet a lot. Anwar’s daily visits to his allotment dwindled to once a week and when he was there found less work was being done.
You probably walked past it before. You think it is just a regular apartment building but the inside is much more different. The second you walk into these buildings you are not yourself and you will be thankful of what you have. People everywhere the most overcrowding place you will ever be in. There’s hardly any air and the place has a terrible smell that Febreze cant get rid off.
Even the hardest of people need somebody to talk to every once in a while. Over the next few paragraphs of the letter, the writer indirectly indicates her loneliness; personifying her cat and going over her day and her work routine and her daily surroundings with extraordinary details. “I, too, walk to work, through the fudgy air and over clumps of moss. The first month we were here I couldn't walk without stopping to touch the fallen clumps. They looked like wig hair, damaged and knotted, but felt like duck feathers.” It is typical for a fiction story to describe surroundings with such detail, but since this was written as a letter to someone, the use of detail is used to emphasize the loneliness of the writer, since she probably has nobody else to listen to what she has to say.
I just hope things improve.” The family of resident Olive Bewick decided to move her to a different care home after she was found with bruising on her shins. Mrs Bewick had lived at Honeymead for five years until, over the last four months, her family became so concerned about her care that they complained to management. Her granddaughter Julie Ryall, 38, said: ‘We noticed things with her personal hygiene. Her nails were absolutely filthy, but she is either in bed or a wheelchair, so it’s not like she was doing gardening. “We also noticed dried food on her face where they had not washed it after meals.