She wishes to teach this to her two daughters but times have changed and her daughters have difference views of what they think heritage is. “Everyday Use” shows the difference between learning about heritage and learning from it. The direct and the indirect characterization of the three main characters help the reader understand the different views of heritage; Mama thinks Dee rejects it, Mama is ignorant to the realness of heritage, and Maggie learns from it. The direct characterization of Dee leads the reader to think that she rejects her mother’s heritage. Direct characterization is when the narrator, in this case ‘Mama’, tells the reader what the character’s traits are.
This causes Jing-mei to do less than her best throughout her life as she grows into a Chinese woman of America. “Two Kinds” represents the difficulties o two distinguished views and how they should or should not coexist with each other. In the story, Jing-mei’s mother has set unrealistic goals for her daughter to reach and achieve. Her mother came to America to start over and create something that is great in her eyes. America was seen as a clean slate and Jing-mei’s expectation level is set lower than her mother’s because she sees herself from a different perspective.
What assumptions does the narrator have about her daughters? Do you agree? Why? The mother has the assumption that Maggie is a very docile, painfully shy, and isolated from most of the town because she stays very close to home with her mother. Dee (Wangero) is the exact opposite to Maggie, she is lighter in complexion, looks down on the place where she was raised, spoiled, and well educated.
Good Country People In Flannery O’Connor’s short story “Good Country People “, the relationship between Hulga/Joy and Mrs. Hopewell is not a good mother and daughter relationship. both could not see themselves as who they really are. Mrs. Hopewell lives in a world of clichés and mottos which she believes as truth and hope with simplicity. Meanwhile Hulga/Joy who is very anti-social and has a cynical attitude toward people believes that her mother is too simple-minded. Both fail to recognize and see each other for who they really are.
Maybe improper education, and years of living in a subjective civilization have changed the immediate thoughts of the mother. The situation above is not the only judgemental one in the story. At the bottom of page 87, Mrs. Wilson asked, “’What about all your [Boyd] other brothers and sisters?’” Actually, Boyd had only one sister, Jean, who is going to become a teacher. Mrs. Wilson was obviously judging Boyd in her conversations, yet Boyd did not assume
Mrs. Hopewell * Hulga: Does not regard her with the level of education earned in the field of philosophy – thinks sense & reason is lacking compared to her knowledge of philosophical matters * Thinks Hulga is deprived because she had never “danced a step or had any normal good times” (274) * Would like to brag about her like she can brag about Mrs. Freeman’s daughters – finds it difficult because of the profession that Hulga took: “You could not say, “My daughter is a philosopher” (276) * Hulga’s deeper knowledge of philosophy draws a parallel with Mrs. Hopewell’s willingness to accept & trust people as good – hence the term “Good Country People” * Adores Mrs. Freeman’s daughters & tells people about them constantly – ashamed of Hulga’s name change from Joy, attitude, behaviour, etc; does not address Hulga’s desire for acceptance: “If you want me, here I am – LIKE I AM” (274) Hulga * Displays of rebellion, possibly because of the declaration that she will not live past forty because of her heart – studies in philosophy borders on atheism, which contradicts Mrs. Hopewell’s views * Aggravated by Mrs. Freeman, who chooses to focus on the grotesque aspects of people * Because of the stock that she put into her prosthetic leg, it has become her source of dependency/anchor to sanity – like her philosophical understandings, her state of being unique makes her who she is and how she behaves * Previous to her encounters with Pointer, she has always relied on her intellectual superiority as leverage over others, but once he asks her to prove her love by showing him her leg, she loses control of herself and transfers it over to Pointer through her leg * This intellectual superiority is punctured when he reveals that he is not the “Good Country Person” that she thought him to be – the sides have now shifted to Pointer holding
Maggie’s mother was also older and better suited to be a mother because she was older and more experienced however, Maggie’s father also left the family. Maggie turned out to be shy and refrained from social life since she did not leave the house after being burned. “She stoops down quickly and lines up picture after picture of me sitting in front of the house with Maggie cowering behind me” (Walker 746). Too much attention leads to Maggie clinging to her mother and not enough attention drives Emily to not seek out a close relationship with her mother. Both mothers are concerned with the status of their daughters.
His other two daughters weren’t so important to him. Mary got married and became Mrs. Charles Musgrove, and Anne who was smart and nice didn’t have any influence on her father or sister Elizabeth. Anne was Lady Russell’s god-daughter. She was her favorite, and she could their mother in Anne. Anne was pretty when she was younger, but her bloom ended shortly and her
Not only does the alternate ending fail to depict the message of liberal feminism that is shown through the original ending, the alternate ending is not consistent with the direction of the rest of the play. For example, Nora’s reason for staying in the alternate ending is her children. However, she shows little evidence of strong maternal instinct throughout the play. Indications of this can be seen much earlier in the action, when Nora is talking to her Nurse about her own childhood: “NURSE: Poor little Miss Nora, you never had any mother but me. NORA: And if my little ones had no one else, I know you would
The decisions she makes shows us, her desire to improve health and education level, but to also be finally making something out of herself other than just a house wife. These changes she is going through tells us her trying to gain her own independence. The reason for change in Norma’s life is the return of her husband Leroy. After 14 year of trucking Leroy’s injury causes him to come back home permanently, which causes unhappiness to Norma, leading her to say, “In some ways, a woman prefers a man who wonders”(Mason 76). Norma says this towards the end of the story, when Norma is essentially telling Leroy she wants to be alone.