“The critic asks “is this believable?” The novelist, “how can I get them to believe this”? In short she argues that a good novelist always has some sort of conflict to tell and it must be suspenseful. “Something other than breakfast”. She uses witty humour to loosen the audience up. Atwood discusses the several genres of fiction that are available in this time and explains how this is not only a time of gender crossover but of genre crossover.
Life is Nothing but a Hazy Shade of Gray Toni Morrison’s “Recitatif” is a short story about two girls, Twyla and Roberta, their relationship and various run ins throughout the course of their lives. Recitatif’s main underlying theme deals with racism. The theme is obviously present, Morrison makes it known that the two girls are of different races, but he intentionally does not define them by their color. This decision forces the reader to come up their own assumptions and ultimately strengthens the message of racism and the understanding of the point that Morrison is trying to make. Toni Morrison gives clues that leads the reader to formulate their own guesses about the girls’ ethnicities by saying that they are “like salt and pepper” (Morrison 140).
This was what men saw in Myrtle that made her an object of longing. Tom fell for her in a sense which enabled her to live the double life that she had always wished for. The purposed of the three women (Daisy Buchanan, Jordan Baker, and Myrtle Wilson) were to characterize three stereotypes women of the 20’s. The characterization functioned by having each of these women played a different role in the plot of the Great Gatsby. These women got in close relationships with each male character in the story.
Question before the Procession Shirley Jackson’s use of literary techniques in The Lottery is a true work of genius. She strategically uses irony in many places such as the story’s title, the setting an even in certain character’s personality traits. Another important literary technique used by Jackson is symbolism. The black box and the story’s title seem to create a range of associations outside themselves such as the importance of questioning irrational traditions and the unexpected nature of death. With the use of these two literary techniques, (irony and Symbolism) Shirley Jackson is able to emphasize important dramatic events within the plot.
‘Debut’ reveals the issues of race and how society reacts to those with darker skin. It does so in a very confronting way, which could only possible through the innocence of the mother-daughter relationship, ‘Judy’ and ‘Mrs Simmons’. Mrs Simmons constantly reminds Judy of the burden of the colour of their skin and how it means Judy must perform at her very best at all times in order to just fit in and be accepted by the other girls in her town. “…Those other girls can afford to be careless, maybe, but you can’t. You’re gonna be the darkest, poorest one there.” The pressure society has put Mrs Simmons feeling the need to make Judy’s night of the ball feel like a ‘battle’ demonstrates the real effects that racism has.
Claudia Cox ‘The main interest of the novel is in its portrayal of intricate characters.’ Explore the methods which the writer uses to create complex characters in the yellow wallpaper. The Yellow Wallpaper, written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman in 1892 focuses on the main interest of the novel being the portrayal of intricate characters. The text explores the mental deterioration of the nameless protagonist, who is trapped under patriarchal control and the reader shares the journey of the protagonist’s descent into madness. ‘The chilling tale of a woman driven to the brink of insanity’ (Maggie O’Farrell, 2008) aims to educate other women within society, despite being isolated within her marriage; in which she is refused power, dismissed and belittled by her husband. The characters in the novel display complex personalities and the main focus is on the intricate protagonist, the
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. It was unusual of women in the time of the great depression to be bubbly and playful as times were hard and money was tight. Another way in which Steinbeck presents women is as objects that are wanted but should not be obtained. The word "jail bait" is used to describe Curley's wife many times through the book, this word describes his wife in a way that presents her as a very attractive young girl, but the term jail bait can also be used to show that she is a danger to toy with. Despite the fact that she is constantly flaunting herself, if she is approached in any way it will cause conflict with Curley which could result in an altercation that could cause a prison sentence.
Certainly, it contains sex and violence, characteristics of any age, but its strength is in its use of language, its power is in its structure. Ragtime accurately reflects the turn of the century in the “awakening” of the consciousness of women, the rush towards industrialism, the struggle for racial equality, and the horror of working conditions for immigrants. I can see myself pulling a tad bit of information from this book just because it talks about the racial issues that was faced back then that caused a lot of controversial issues. Would I recommend this book to others? I would be cautious to whom I recommend this to, because of the censorship, and the controversial issues; but, it does help with certain
Her unsuccessful and violent father moved the family many times, and her older brother was favored by her grandfathers’ will. By growing up in this type of household, she thought that marriage life was dangerous for women. As she grew older, events in the lives of her family and friends only strengthened her views that marriage was often hazardous for women (Miller par 3). This influential time of her life proved to be for the better: this pushed Mary toward self-educating and to write. In her novel, “Mary: A Fiction” (1788), a women dies from fever after she accepts the hopelessness of her life.
Your Name Liberation: Winning or Losing! Can a woman overcome her oppression in a patriarchal society? Charlotte Perkin Gilman’s short story, The Yellow Wallpaper and Kate Chopin’s novel, The Awakening which were written in the 19th century, reveals woman’s position in the patriarchal society. The Yellow Wallpaper depicts how the woman is suppressed in Victorian Era, how this imprisonment paves the way for her disturbed mentality and her struggle to overcome it, whereas, The Awakening depicts the protagonist’s awakening of her imprisonment in the institution of marriage in the same era and her struggle to be free ignoring all her bonds with the family and the society. These two works of literature proves that how male dominance