Secondary they were shocked by Lisa’s behavior of being so cold, when she failed to greet them when she first entered the room. Also, inviting her friends to have a beer while their boyfriends were in the room was an awkward act from Lisa. Case of Lisa and Two Sues Lisa says that she had passed her high school level, but due to the financial
The girl’s presence inspires Luis to stay at the junkyard all night washing the hubcaps looking for the special hubcap. Once Luis finds the hubcap, he runs all the way to the girl’s house, climbs the tree outside her window, throws pebbles at her window to get her attention, and tells her that he has found the hubcap. Luis must be in love with this girl because he straightens up when they get together (Cofer
Within the short story "The Painted Door" Ann shows that she experiences feelings of depression, and isolation. Ann's negative mood is apparent through the story and can be seen at any time during the story. Ann's husband is named John and through the story she says many sarcastic and condescending comments, "plenty of wood to keep me warm - what more could a women ask for" (Ross 288). It is clear that Ann is unhappy with John and not satisfied with him. She does not want John to go to his father's house to check on him because she does not want to be left alone in the house when there is a snowstorm is taking place outside.
Like any stay at home woman. The reader can also see that Anne portrays the typical stay at home woman when Anne tries to do the chores in the barn but gets lost, so Steve comes to assist her and says, “There is nothing to be afraid of now, though. I’m going to do the chores for you.” (Ross, 297) One can see how this quote shows that Anne is incapable of doing simple tasks such as cleaning things in the barn due to her character being a simple stay at home woman. For example, how she needs Steve to go out in to the storm to take care of her and to do her chores, because she is too weak, nervous and incapable to do the simple tasks by
Also, when Curley’s wife is talking to Lennie, Candy, and Crooks in Crooks bunk she states “I think I know where they all went even Curley”(37). Curley’s wife knows that her husband is unloyal to her when he goes with the workers to a cathouse. Because no other character in the novel shows jealousy and deceitful, Curley is a bad to be a good husband to his wife it makes her talk even with Lennie. Because Curley ignores his wife and does not let her talk to anybody, he takes part of the responsibility for his wife’s
Penguin Readers Factsheets T e a c h e r’s n o t e s level E 1 2 Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck 3 4 5 6 ELEMENTARY S U M M A R Y eorge Milton and Lennie Small are two ranch workers, who dream of owning a small farm one day. George acts like a father to Lennie, who is physically large but intellectually slow. Lennie loves animals and soft things, such as mice and rabbits. But his physical strength causes problems, so George has to watch out for him. The two men have been traveling together in California and have just gotten a job on a ranch.
“Leaving alien miles unleashed and unrestrained. Watching the hurricane of writhing snow rage past the little house” (234). She was overpowered by the storm which left her planted in the freezing drifts in which Steven arrived. Now Ann can relax as there is someone to do the chores and keep her company, but in a short amount of time this changes. Steven turns into a awful man who knows he has the advantage of Ann for the night, “but in a storm like this you are not expecting john?” (236).
After the whole night of thinking, he felt regret and wanted to apologise to the family. However, when he went back to the house, he heard that the family decide to leave the house because they think that the monster will threatened their father’s life. In nowadays, there are examples about the regretful of people who isolated themselves. There’s a girl, she don’t like meeting with people, so she always stayed at her house, her parents use a lot of strength to ask her to go out and meet the others. However, the girl just ignored them.
Only now in the middle of the poem does the narrator express that he is burying his son and reconnecting him with the elements of nature. After the planting of the reader is told how nature and man will work together to raise this tree. The men will
He could feel like he’s in unequal marriage, where George has all the responsibilities. Curley’s Wife is definitely no happy and very lonely since she is living in her father-in-laws house. She thinks she has missed her opportunities in life by living with Curley and a ‘band of lonely men’. She even tries to get a bit of companionship by flirting and talking with the men on the ranch but when she does is comes back on her horribly. No one on the ranch can get the key to not being lonely; the men on the ranch use all their money on the brothel every Saturday night but it doesn’t stop them being lonely, Lennie and George think that having their own place would solve ‘everything’.