In line two, the narrator states that she is an elephant and a ponderous house. This line expresses how the narrator feels about her pregnant body and like the second line, a comical undertone underlays the third line, "A melon walking around on its skinny tendrils", puts a humorous image in one's mind. When looking at a pregnant woman, it is ways to see the resemblance. The narrator looks back in the fourth line, surveys her previous thoughts and summarized them. The red fruit in line four returns the idea of a melon.
Women's Involvement in World War I Source A is a secondary source, and is a letter, written in 1976. It is mostly fact with the only biased statement being "I hated every minute of it". The woman it was written by lived through the actual events, which is an advantage, but with it having been written so many years later, she may well have forgotten some of the details. As the woman was not anyone famous, she probably didn't write the letter thinking it would be published. Therefore the letter was probably written to inform, and as it is neither biased nor written with an eye to publishing then it is probably reliable.
She was satisfied with never wanting for anything financially, so much so she allowed this to distract her from the fact that she was emotionally unfulfilled in every aspect of her life. She may have indiscreetly envied her independent children and friends, but would never admit such a thing because that would force her to realize she is not at all
They were very weak in personality which was described “Oh, yes. But I don’t care about me. And I’ll do it and then everything will be fine.”“I don’t want you to do it if you feel that way.” (Hemingway, 65). This portrays that she has disregarded any feeling that she may have about having an abortion and is going to have one for his well being and satisfaction. She has lowered herself expectations in life to satisfy someone else’s.
Dee only wanted to lord over them her superior intelligence and education, therefore boosting her own ego. Dee does not hide her shame for the way that her mother and Maggie live by writing “no matter where [they] “choose” to live, she will manage to come see [them]. But she will never bring her friends.” Dee's harsh criticisms are not just pointed at her mother and Maggie as can be seen when the narrator points out “When [Dee] was courting Jimmy T she didn't have much time to pay us, but turned all her faultfinding power on him. He flew to marry a cheap city girl” (Walker 105). Notice the emphasized word flew.
Maybe not in the same way but that has never stopped the deaf and they see deafness as normal as they should. I really didn’t like how the grandmother went about things as I felt that she was very closed minded and only wanted things her way and I
By Curley’s wife talking to a mentally unstable person Lennie she seemed to take advantage of him by flirting a little bit with him. Lennie seems a little questionable by all that she was doing but he was going along with it until she says, “ I get lonely, you can talk to people but I can’t talk to nobody but curly” (Steinbeck, 87). This quote shows loneliness because even Lennie is having a hard time to communicate with Curley’s wife because she doesn’t seem confortable with him. As they keep talking Curley’s wife lets out all that she had hurting her inside to Lennie, she tells him everything because her husband never wanted to listen to her which made her loos her companionship. As Lennie keeps talking to her in his mind he feels that she is very confused into her self by this entire happening she gets herself into trouble.
He says that he doesn’t need a baby in their life - “That’s the only thing that bothers us. It’s the only thing that made us unhappy”, “”… But I don’t want anybody but you. I don’t want anyone else.” They are happy with their life, drinking and traveling from one place to the other - “Just because you say I wouldn’t have doesn’t prove anything” – reveals the defensive nature in him. Ernest Hemmingway has used a lot of symbolism. “Hills” are symbolized as the bulging belly of a pregnant woman and the “White Elephants” are symbolized as a baby or the birth of a baby.
Gilman shows this when the woman of the story says “I meant to be such a help to John, such a real rest and comfort, and here I am a comparative burden already”. She also shows that woman at this time didn’t really do anything for themselves, “Nobody would believe what an effort it is to do what little I am able - to dress and entertain, and order things”. The woman in the story is believing in the social norm and what her husband belittles her to be. She feels that she is a burden to her husband because she dislikes the wallpaper and continues to complain about how much it bothers her. He refuses to change it making her blame herself for not being able to cope with the “dull” and “flamboyant” yellow wallpaper.
I'll give you one hint: unicorn slumber parties!!! You see, in medieval times, a virginal maiden would sit alone in the woods until a unicorn, enchanted by her purity, approached and laid its head in her lap. At which point, the waiting hunters would reveal themselves, and presto—unicorn kebabs. Of course, nowadays most unicorn meat comes from factory farms, which means wild unicorns can spend their free time teaching virtuous girls how to wear makeup without looking cheap. The only reason abstinence promoters don't tell everyone about this is because then we'd run out of unicorns.