Bracelets dangling and making noises when she moves her arm… The dress is loose and flows, and as she walks closure, I like it. I hear Maggie go "Uhnnnh" (Walker 2439). She shows a very selfish characteristic and that trait is repeatedly brought out in the story. For instance, she begins to ask for things in the house like the chair and desk. Another instance is when she asks her mother for the quilts her grandmother had made, her mother said they were for Maggie; Dee's reply was, “Maggie wouldn't appreciate the quilts” and Maggie says, “Dee can have them” (Walker 2441).
Melissa da Ponte ENG 102 A02 Fiction Essay Final Draft “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?” Connie is a pretty, fifteen year old girl with long dark blonde hair, and like many girls her age, she cares only about how she looks and how people look at her and see her. She’s very self-absorbed, judgmental, and seems very insecure. The relationship between herself and her family isn’t great, especially between her mother and her. Her mother is always comparing Connie and her sister June, and because of this everything about Connie had two sides to it. One side for when she’s home, and one side for when she’s out with her friends.
While living with her abusive father who she chooses to only call T. Ray, Lily feels that she is lacking certain femininity in her life. She battles with her hair which was “constantly going off in eleven different directions” (Kidd 3) and when she woke up with a rose-petal stain on her panties she was “so proud of that flower and didn’t have a soul to show it to except Rosaleen”(13). Rosaleen is Lily’s housekeeper and one of her only friends. Lily’s curiosities about her mother lead her to the attic where she finds some of her mother’s belongings. Lily keeps everything she finds of her mother’s in a small tin buried in the orchards outside her house.
After she moved to the city and become an educated and sophisticated, young woman, she wrote to her mom that she would always visit, “but will never bring her friends” (Walker 3). She doesn’t want her friends to know the real conditions of living that her family have and the backward way of life they live. She grasps the African tradition and culture, yet, fails to acknowledge her own African American culture. Dee is misconstruing her heritage as material goods as opposed to her ancestor’s habits and way of life. When she informs her mother and Maggie that she has changed her name, she states, “I couldn’t bear it any longer, being named after the people who oppress me” (Walker 4).
She held the quilts securely in her arm, stroking them” (748) Dee (Wangero) can feel the love of her Grandmother through these quilts. Mama has already promised them to Maggie now, knowing that Dee had no use for them before she went away to college. Now she would like to hang them up and show off her heritage. Walker uses the quilts to also show a little personality in Mama as she is angered by the fact that Dee thinks all Maggie would do with the quilts is use them every day and not realize the history and heritage behind them. Even though Maggie is portrayed as a frail, quiet, shy child, she reveals her thoughts when Dee is told no by Mama for the quilts.
For instance, Curley’s wife is unhappy in her marriage to Curley, and is always looking for someone to talk to. Most of the ranch hands realize talking to Curley’s wife is a huge mistake, but because Lennie is mentally disabled, he does not grasp the seriousness of talking to her. One day, everyone is outside playing horseshoe. Curley’s wife goes to him for a conversation, and that is her fatal mistake. Lennie loves anything soft, so Curley’s wife lets him touch her hair.
Lucinda was one of Ella’s fairy godmothers who actually started the story of Ella of Frell. Like every fairy, she liked to go to weddings and births of babies. Lucinda was known for her spells she casted on the married couples and new born babies she met. She called her spells gifts. Everybody thought her gifts were terrible.
Curley’s wife’s first appearance in the novel further emphasizes our previous perception. This because Steinbeck uses words and phrases such as ‘full, rouged lips and wide-spaced eyes, heavily made up’ and ‘she wore a cotton house dress and red mules, on the insteps of which were little bouquets of red ostrich feathers, to show that Curley’s wife both talks and acts flirtatious in front of the ranch workers. Therefore Candy’s description of Curley’s Wife seems rather accurate after her first appearance in the novel. Curley’s wife has no ability to self-evaluate; she is very self-obsessed and unable to judge herself
She describes Stella-Rondo be inconsistent and unstable based on her being spoiled when they were children. Sister uses this immediately to make a point of her sister’s unappreciation for everything she has ever had. But she never describes how she behaved as a child which can be suggested that she may think the reader can assumed she was the better of the two. Then, she goes to say that out of nowhere Stella-Rondo leaves her husband and returns home with a two-year-old child whom she claims is adopted. Sister sees right through her sister’s façade considering the timing of everything.
A massage and a wave, and a collar for the dog, and one of those cute little ash-trays where you touch a spring, and a wreath with a black silk bow for mother’s grave that’ll last all summer”(36). From first time she meets Nick, she is incessantly babbling about buying things. Her desire for objects spawns from her emulating the other ladies of the west egg who all have many possessions. Myrtle is in love with the idea of being a classy lady and does not love Tom; she is only using him to accomplish her goals. Similarly, Gatsby uses Daisy to accomplish his goal of becoming a god.