Grandma Lynn is one of the more vibrant, vain and misunderstood characters within the novel, like her Daughter she portrays an air of selfishness (Relating back to her daughter leaving the family in a time of crisis) however she takes the role of the level-headed peacekeeper throughout her appearances in the Novel, from her arrival before Susie’s funeral to her departure. We also notice how she is a hardened person, unlike the rest of the family. Sebold represents her as a vain and self-conscious character, an alcoholic and above all she has a straight forward attitude. Sebold initially represents Grandma Lynn in the play as one of the more hardened characters, upon her arrival we already get an idea of the character as someone who is unaffected by personal crisis’s such as Susie’s death, even before her arrival the call between Abigail and Grandma Lynn helps to portray her hardened character, the way that she is blankly states that “She has to come because it’s Susies funeral” she doesn’t seem to show much emotion on her arrival and the way that she brings a more vibrant atmosphere into the solemn and sad house. Even on her arrival instead of confronting the issue of Susies death she orders for a “Stiff Drink”.
The two short stories show how two women have felt trapped due to their situations. In The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, the woman is portrayed to have an illness and trapped in a room by her husband in order to get better. In A Rose for Emily by William Faulkner, Emily's father has overprotected her denying her a normal life. When he dies she is left with no one guiding her and she decides to trap herself in her house. In the two short stories, both women feel repressed in their role unwillingly to escape their room leaving them to have a distorted reality created by their mind.
Annie feels as though her mother is not trust worthy: “ Why, I wonder, didn’t I see the hypocrite in my mother when, over the years, she said that she loved me and could hardly live with out me, while at the same time proposing and arranging separation after separation, including this one. […](Kincaid 89) Annie thinks her mother wants her completely gone from her life. She does not trust that her mother truly loves her and will miss her. She believes that since her mother is the one who set up this separation, she is not as truthful and loving as Annie once believed. Similarly, Lairds sister also felt her mother was not trustworthy: “ My mother I felt was not to be trusted.”(Munro 50) Lairds sister was unwillingly forced by her mother, to stay in the house all day and fill countless jars with various fruits, instead of being outside in the fields with her father doing the work she loved.
This feature can make it difficult for support staff to engage well with individuals, impacting on the level of support received. An example of this is one tenant who is autistic who finds it difficult to speak with people face to face. The tenant prefers to be alone at all times. This makes it very hard to support them as they often will not open their door, instead they will shout through the door that they are ok and do not need any help. This tenant does not get much support due to this which impacts on practice, staff are not able to complete tasks with her, and not able to physically monitor her well being.
Mrs Linde has had to work hard and was not afforded love and children which she longed to have. She took care of her mother and brother as her own but still desired more. Once her circumstances had changed she set out to acquire that which she had lost. When Mrs Linde is introduced in Act I, we can immediately see she is a woman who has been through a harder time and worked hard to have a meekly accommodating life. She is more insightful of her surrounding than Nora Helmer.
After suffering through a prolonged depressive and suicidal state, Horney left her abusive husband in 1926 and eventually moved to the United States with her children in 1930. Horney ended up in Brooklyn, which was home to a large Jewish German population. There she met Harry Stack Sullivan and Erich Fromm who were also prominent pioneers in the emerging field of psychoanalysis. Once in the United States, Horney took a position as the Associate Director of the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis. It was during this
Duffy takes the form of the dramatic monologue, in which she herself becomes the dead Jewish woman, speaking to us from beyond the terrible mass grave. The poem begins: After I no longer speak, they break our fingers to salvage my wedding ring The image in the readers’ mind is horrific. The word ‘salvage’ shows the brutality and greediness of the Germans who did this to her. This line is written in the present tense, bringing the events of the Holocaust closer to us and shocking us greatly with how this woman's fingers were broken, whilst she was actually still alive. But this poem is not just the tale of the persona's acts of bravery.
This is not a one way street. The lines of communication have to be open on both ends. One of the most common mistakes we make as people is talking at someone and not really talking with them. Also we have a tendency to not really listen to the other person. We are so concerned with what we have to say or what we are upset about that we don’t listen to the other persons input.
Anna quotes "I thought that she could teach me much about how to manage alone as a woman in the world." Anna here is talking about Anys and she hopes that she could learn her ways of her life for her own benefit. Before Tom dies Aphra tells Anna, ‘why do you let yourself love and infant so? I warned you, did I not, to school your heart against this?’ Aphra tells anna this to make a point that she told her so, that not to get too close to her children before they grow up because of the circumstances and how Aphra had lost all her children. This shows how the power of love can affect people, even tho Aphra wasn’t a big fan of Anna she still made a point out with some sense of caring.
Maggie was very uneasy around her sister; her mother tells her anxiousness in regard to Dee’s visitation: “Maggie will be nervous until after her sister goes: she will stand hopelessly in corners, homely and ashamed of the burn scars down her arms and legs, eyeing her sister with a mixture of envy and awe” (119). Dee undermines her sister, not always knowing what type of impact she impresses upon Maggie. Dee does not appreciate her sister or her mother, both of which is barely educated and lives in a poor, dilapidated home. In fact, Dee had her own way of making this noticeable in one instance when she stood off in the distance while their first home burned down with her mother and sister inside (121). She does not feel comfortable taking on the old fashioned lifestyle her mother and sister do.