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.
Sweet Home Alabama Andy Tennant’s Sweet Home Alabama (2002) is an American romantic comedy film, which reveals the journey of two children (Melanie Smooter and Jake Perry), growing up together and discussing their future together. The scene then moves to the present day. Melanie changed her last name to Carmichael to hide her identity. Melanie Carmichael is living the fairytale where her rich boyfriend proposes. But first she must face her past.
Josh is mortified when he has to relocate and live with his father who has a new profession: Elvis impersonator. (F) Peck, Richard. A RIVER BETWEEN US. In 1816, two mysterious women arrive in Illinois from New Orleans and are taken in by Tilly’s family. As the Civil War spreads north, Tilly’s brother Noah joins the Union army.
When someone finds themselves in an isolated and unfulfilling reality they may make immoral choices which may devastate their relationships. When someone is isolated without a loved one they will do just about anything to feel safe and in some ways this could lead to something that in the end may cause deep regret. In the painted door this is what happened to Ann when her husband left to help his father. A neighbour came over to keep her company but in the isolation and thought of her husband Ann made some decision that in the end left her without John. In the freezing isolation of prairie farm land women may panic when they are by themselves and do something that they would have never done when the reality was good.
But it remains very hard to ascribe its behaviour to ignorance.” (Le Guin, 146). Furthermore, lack of communication resulted in humiliation. Due to the lack of understanding and communication, the protagonist felt alienated. Moreover, in “Was it a Dream?” the death of the protagonist’s wife caused psychological pain. The protagonist attempts to let go of the past, but has difficulty in the process.
Curley’s wife clearly feels neglected by her husband and she likes to create attention for herself as she feels she isn’t noticed. She is extremely lonely, and that is why she is constantly going in to the bunkhouse to allegedly ‘look for Curley’ but really she is crying out for the attention and affection that her loveless marriage lacks. “Think I don’t like to talk to somebody ever’ once in a while?” and “Standin’ here talkin’ to a bunch of bindle stiffs – a nigger an a dum dum and a lousy ol’ sheep – an’ likin’ it because they ain’t nobody else.” This shows how desperate she is for contact with people. She is isolated because she is the only woman on the ranch, and because of this Curley is possessive over her. No characters in the novel care for Curley’s Wife (except for Lennie for a brief time) and very little attention is given to her- partly because they are intimidated by the potential wrath of Curley, son of the boss, if they step out of line concerning his wife.
The poem “Witches’ Winter” and the book “The Crucible” illustrate the life in the Old England. In stanza five, the poem showed how the cold and wintry life which the main character Abigail William was suffering. She was tired and abhorred the world she was born into, she had to constrain herself from happiness and joy. Once she tasted the joy of the forbiddance, it only increased her hatred to the cold world: “I taste dried blood on my lips. Better not to have tasted anything, not to have lived through the first winter when Reverend and my father broke chunks of ice into my Christening bowl.” This strongly indicated Abigail’s loathing, and the reason of her revolt against the old restrained law as showed in the book.
Waiting and waiting was all that she got accomplished that day, aside from the painting of the door, due to the intense worriment she has been accompanied with. Silence became her dear friend as she resented the actions of her husband towards his father. Along with the chilling atmosphere that the cold breeze had brought inside, Ann began to examine every part of her life that she was not impressed with. The burst of emotions was only egged on by results that the storm had caused. Internally, she began to feel sorry for herself, but really had no idea what she would be missing.
Where did the genuine love of real people seem to disappear to? Montag dislikes this personified machinery that takes over his household and questions Mildred, “Does your ‘family’ love you, love you very much, love you with all their heart and soul, Millie?”(pg.77) Mildred does not, answer for deep inside, she knows that the life that she occupies, is unnatural. Montag remains confused and heartbroken thanks to the cold-blooded talking walls. In the book, people look for love in things that are not able to give love in return and if not that, there is no love being looked for at
The first stanza suggests that the narrator is having difficulty going to sleep because she says “they have watered the street” which suggests pointlessness because it is not normal to water streets, implying that the narrator is pointing out things that don’t matter just to pass time. Also the narrator refers to words that are associated with cold seasons such as winter as the quote states “it shines in the glare of lamps, Cold, white lamps” which may suggest that the narrator feels somewhat imprisoned in her room as winter connotes snow which tends to keep you inside. The simile “like a slow-moving river” may symbolise the way the time is moving slowly as the narrator is awake at 2 a.m. In the second stanza the poet has cleverly made apparent the regularity of the traffic by using different sentence lengths as they shows the distancing of the cars for example it says “cabs go down it,” “one” “And then another” the use of the one word sentence shows how far the cars are to one another. Moreover, the poet powerfully, uses sibilance that suggests that the narrator is hearing hidden threats of the mind as the quote states “The city is squalid and sinister, with the silver-barred street in the midst” the threats also become apparent by the poet’s use of a bitter tone.