No mother, no father, no husband” Becca’s editor Stan encourages her to seek out the truth about Gemma. He’s support is important because her family are not optimistic that she will uncover anything. There is a hint of romantic attachment between them but for now, Becca just needs to know Gemma’s history and nothing else. Stan helps Becca to find out her Grandmothers past. He suggested that they both go to Oswego which was five to six hours away, but he had a friend there called Samantha who they could stay with and she might be able to make connections that could help
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.
Also, she does not feel guilty that she allowed Newt to kiss him and felt no guilt even though she is about to get married.Despite Catherine dismissing Newt's perceptions of her, she still ends up in his arms at the end of the story. In the story, she says (2) " I'm extremely fond of you as a friend, but it's just too late." And when she admits that women aren't very clever at hiding love and Newt starts to see love. She emphasizes that she does indeed love him but it's just too late to come to the consensus. Us readers immediately pick up the love Newt has for Catherine.
“The wind is prowling with Tomcats” is relevant as the audience is now aware that Eggs has a sexual relationship with Jamie. Fiona is also called “Feeble” by Eggs, and it is clear that her nickname also represents her character to him. She is a caricature of the conservative politician’s wife. Fi insists “I want to be free of you” but in reality this is an impossibility as she depends on Eggs for financial security, her social status, and her sense of self revolves around being a wife. Finally, Eggs confesses that he understands that “not everything that troubles people’s consciences is inherently wrong” which suggests he does not believe that the refugees desire to come to Australia is wrong, but he pretends that they are in order to gain the support of majority of
‘Maybe you better go along to your own house now. We don’t want no trouble’ this shows that the workers were cautious of being caught with Curley’s wife and sent her on her way to avoid conflict. Curley treasures his wife and if she were caught in any trouble, even if it was her fault, she’d be seen as innocent. Finally, Steinbeck also presents women as attractive and confident. The quotes ‘If he ain’t, I better look someplace else, she said playfully’ and ‘Hi, Good-lookin’.’ These show all the workers think Curley’s wife is attractive and she knows this, so she’s being confident with them.
Section 3 Summaries Chapter 24) Minny worries that her friend Aibileen will get in trouble for faking the recommendation to Miss Celia so that she could get a job. Miss Celia does not care though, she values and supports Minny tremendously and would never fire her because of Hilly. In this chapter it is clear that Leroy is physically abusing Minny again, she is however too ashamed to tell anyone about it or ask for help. Celia notices that cuts and offers to call the police but Minny tells her not to worry about it because she doesn’t want anyone to know about it. She tries to hide her pain from Celia and Aibileen so that they do not worry about her.
Unfortunately Judge Turpin makes it almost impossible for Anthony to save his beauty. The chronological plotlines occasionally intersect, and when they do, Anthony is unaware of the actual situation. The beauty he was trying to rescue is Sweeney Todd’s daughter. When the plotlines first intersect they come up with an idea that seems like it’ll appease the desires of them both. Anthony’s desire was to rescue Joanna, and take her back to the barber shop which also helps Sweeney Todd in his desire of freeing his daughter, and murdering anyone involved in destroying his family’s life.
Scout also does not understand the consequences of many things. This includes about fighting and the situation with Boo Radley, the Finch’s exclusive neighbour. Having such a young narrator gives To Kill a Mockingbird a different point of view to many other stories. It shows innocence and naivety, but also to not judge everything straight away. It helps ease the tension, especially during such a controversial novel.
“I always lock the door when I creep by daylight. I can't do it at night, for I know John would suspect something at once” (Page 13). Though she knows that her husband would be suspicious of her if he saw her creeping at night, she was willing to take that chance so she might find out more about the yellow wallpaper. In addition to diction, Perkins’s main character conveys a tone of disobedience to disclose the woman’s separation with the cult of true womanhood. The main character’s tone suggest that she was ready find out things on her own and not have to rely on her husband.
It’s all about how people perceive themselves in the world and they want to do everything that they can to impress their peers and the ones they deeply care about. Not enough is based on ones “inner beauty” and the great attributes a person can have related to their intelligence and personality. The short story deals with two friends on the opposite end of that spectrum, one is beautiful and one is very intelligent. In the story, both Bethany and Carla are jealous of one another and seek a trait that the other has. Bethany is the intelligent one with a good job and Carla is the beautiful one that always gets asked out by attractive men.