The readers might guess that Patrick wants a divorce but why? Is that because Patrick gets bored of Mary; is he now in love with another woman? The readers do not know; but in the movie, Alfred Hitchcock makes it very clear that Patrick wants to divorce with Mary because he is in love with another woman. The events in the story version are also different from the events in the movie. In the story, after killing Patrick, Mary goes to her room upstairs, practices cheerful routine then heads to the grocer’s and has conversation with Sam at the grocer’s.
Edna’s character abandons her role as a mother and wife; she breaks moral values and standards because of the intimate love affair she shares with Robert, therefore leading to the struggles she faces in the novel where she failed. Moral characters say more about a person than the background of an individual and play an important role in one’s life. When disregarded it can bring shame and conflict to a family differentiating a person to be good or bad. The concept of good and evil differs from one person to another, but certainly, a married woman who loves another man apart from her husband and acts upon that love is sinful. When the story begins Chopin’s description of Edna makes it look like she is the antagonist of the novel, when Mr. Pontellier was sitting on the
The author is contrasting this with the unhappy life of the main character with his wife, Zeena, by saying that only “cold paper” and “dead words” are left without Mattie. The words “cold” and “dead” are reflective of his life with his wife. The author purposely ties in the pleasant words with Mattie and the displeasing words with Zeena and things associated with their life together. This is also a reflection of Ethan’s favor for Mattie as his light and an escape from his cold and dark marriage. This also provides the probability that Ethan has thought about leaving his wife in pursuit of happiness with Mattie.
It is very bad weather.” He then sends the maid outside with an umbrella to protect the wife from getting wet. The hotel-keeper represents the way that she wisher her husband could be. She says she “…liked his dignity. She liked the way he wanted to server her.” It is clear to the reader that her husband did not want to serve her because when he offers to go outside and get the cat he makes no real effort to get up and stop reading his book, he was doing just to ask but with no real intention of doing it for his wife. Through the hotel-keeper Hemingway shows the reader what the wife is lacking from her husband and how the grass is always greener on the other side.
Lenehan's personal paralysis is that he lives a pitiful life but doesn't wish to. While Corley goes to meet the woman, Lenehan wanders around and decides to stop when he sees a sign for "Ginger Beer and Ginger Ale" in the window of a refreshment bar and lets his mind wander to thoughts of Corley and the woman and afterwards states, "He would be thirty-one in November. Would he ever get a good job? Would he never have a home of his own?" with this Joyce paints the picture of poverty in Dublin and tells the reader how Lenehan has zero hope for his future.
The cultural differences that two countries have and the effect that the culture may create on individuals are exemplified in the Joyce's troubled marriage. In the opening scene of Voyage to Italy the Joyce's travel through Napoli, this proves to be a significant component in showing the couples solidarity and compares their lack of love with a city that is known for its love. Alex begins to make comments of distaste to Katherine, which includes telling her he cannot wait for his late Uncle's property to sell so they can go home. Alex's attitude towards Katherine is caused by his own personal disorientation while experiencing a type of culture shock. The conversation in the car continues to be hostile as Alex continues to show his disgust for the Italian culture and Katherine relates this to his desire to be elsewhere instead of in an automobile with her.
The Justice of Women “A Jury of Her Peers”, by Susan Glaspell, shows two women solving a murder because of their ability to pay attention to little details. Their husbands, who are important men in a small town, by ignoring women’s “trifles” – pans, dirty towels, sewing baskets – are not able to solve the case and even so the men mock the details observed by the women. While women talk about small details like dirty towels and sewing baskets, the men laugh at them and do not see the evidences. The female characters find the strangled bird, killed in the same way as the deceased (John Wright). The strangled bird symbolizes the miserable life of Mrs. Wright because she did not have kids, she possibly treated the bird as her child to sign
In John Knowles’s novel-A Separate Peace, Gene kills his best friend in a jealous moment before he realizes what he has done. The great Gatsby revolves around the love story of Daisy Buchanan and Jay Gatsby, but they do not get married because as Daisy says “Rich girls do not marry the poor boys” ,and so she marries Tom Buchanan. However, after Daisy meets Gatsby and sees the luxurious lifestyle of Gatsby, that includes his collection of English shirts, she begins to cry. She cries because she regrets her wrong decision; she chose the wrong man who she never loved. Then Gatsby convinces Daisy to say to Tom that she never loved him.
Candy, like Crooks, also tried to reach out, yet he does it by trying to defend Crooks. Crooks and Curley's wife get into a climactic altercation, and Candy, acting on his loneliness, angrily discloses that they aren't "afraid of getting canned...because they got their own land". (Steinbeck 79) This reflects his reaching out because he put himself on the line for a man he had just met. Before the altercation with Crooks, Curley's wife uses her appeal to reach out. In a desperate attempt to make small talk with the men, she states
It’s about him traversing his way through his mundane job until he becomes hypnotized into being a calm guy who doesn’t have a care in the world. Instead of being fired for missing work (to go on dates with a waitress he really likes) and not caring about his job, Peter is instead promoted. This in turn means that his coworker friends will be fired and snaps Peter into a plan of action to seek revenge on Initech in the form of a virus that money from the company. The plan goes wrong, but in the end things work out for Peter and his friends. One reason many people have found solace and laughter in “Office Space” is the realistic situations that it discusses.