In the poem In The Park, the woman pretends to someone that her little bundles-of-joy are just that, angelic children. As he walks away however, she confesses to nobody that ‘they have eaten me alive.’ This expression demonstrates the feeling of being alone and ignored. The mother in Suburban Sonnet expresses her anxiety in trying to achieve with small children. The mother is overwhelmed by how much she has to do – cook dinner, clean up after her children, keep them entertained and comfort them, presenting the views of many mothers. The language Gwen Harwood uses in these poems emphasises the feeling of drained energy and failure in other aspects of their lives (for example fugue playing).
Robin Jenkins first shows you how different the little girl is, “red eyed dissenter”. This shows that the little girl could be angry or has maybe been crying. I think Jenkins has used ‘dissenter’ to identify Margaret as different from everyone else suggesting her loneliness and isolation from the others. Loneliness is a theme throughout ‘Flowers’ which shows that life can be very unpleasant especially if you are alone. The theme of loneliness continues when, after Miss Laing tells the children to go pick flowers they all “scamper off” but the little girl doesn’t.
The loneliness of Curley’s wife is portrayed in many different ways throughout the book, using both the words of characters and Steinbeck’s narrations. Even at the beginning of the book, a sense of the loneliness is displayed through the setting of Soledad, meaning solitude, and plays a perfect backdrop for the loneliness of the characters. By setting the story in Soledad, Steinbeck demonstrates the terrible loneliness that all of the characters are feeling, including Curley’s wife. The ironic thing about her loneliness is that she is the only character in the book that has a partner or husband, but still comes across as the most solitary one of them all. She shows a lot of anger and sarcasm when she speaks about Curley, “swell guy ain’t
Mason Tompkins Dr. J. H. Jones EH 104 January 21, 2015 Outline ❏ The story focuses on Miss Brill, and her weekly day at the park ❏ Miss Brill has heart problems, possibly an elderly woman ❏ “She felt a tingling in her hands and arms, but that came from walking, she supposed. And when she breathed, something light and sad - no, not sad, exactly - something gentle seemed to move in her bosom.” ❏ Miss Brill is either a widow or never married ❏ Miss Brill must be shy ❏ This was disappointing, for Miss Brill always looked forward to the conversation. She had become really quite expert, she thought, at listening as though she didn't listen, at sitting in other people's lives just for a minute while they talked round her. ❏ Miss Brill doesn’t
Emily Dickinson explores the concept of not belonging due to a lack of connection experienced with her place in society. Dickinson’s poetry then contrasts this, by exploring her sense of belonging to her poetry and to Nature. In the poem I had been hungry all the years, the persona in the poem initially seeks a belonging with society, however she immediately rejects this belonging due to her sense of discomfort and lack of connection intuited. In the poem I died for beauty but was scarce, Dickinson explores the perception of making the deliberate decision to belong to her art and indirectly to nature. The film Pan’s labyrinth explores the sense of belonging the character Ofelia feels to a fantasy world that she has created, as a consequence of not feeling a connection to the real world.
She is desperate to feel noticed and special and this shows how lonely she is and isolated. Steinbeck presented Curley's Wife in different ways. First she is seen as 'a tart', a threat, using her power, being racist but then she is presented as also lonely and compassionate to Lennie. In Steinbeck's letter to the actress playing her in the play version, he says 'if you could break down her thousand defences she has built up, you would find a nice person, an honest person, and you would end up loving her.' We see in the end what a nice person she can be and that she wants to be loved like anyone else.’ |
I get awful lonely.” (86). She is trying to guilt Lennie into talking to her by telling him about how lonely she is. She is so lonely that she is taking advantage of Lennie’s mental disability and tricking him into talking to her. She is desperate to talk to anyone she can, even if it is Lennie, who has no idea what she is talking about. Curley’s Wife is a very isolated
During the novel Curley’s wife is often found wondering around the farm “looking for Curley”. Many of the guys on the farm think that she is looking for attention. They also think that she is a “tart.” Mean while all that Curley’s wife is trying to do is make some friends so that she is not alone on the farm. This shows how Curley’s wife is an example of how women were restless during this time period because they had not much to do, and most of the time they were alone. Curley is also very protective of his wife.
The short story Polar Breath by Diane Glancy depicts the protagonist as a woman suffering from depression, showing the hopelessness, fatigue, and the feeling of being trapped that comes with this depression. This story doesn’t only illustrate what goes through our protagonist’s mind during the winter but, along with that feeling of detachment from everything surrounding her, it also makes us as the audience feel detached from the character and the story itself. In the opening paragraph the author doesn’t introduce the woman in a special or welcoming manner, but in fact, we are bombarded with the omniscient third-person point of view of the sidetracking thoughts that go through her mind, such as how the small, fragile birds in her yard kept themselves warm during the winter or why they didn’t just freeze like little ice-cubes. The
It is obvious that Lizabeth is miserable and despises her own hometown. Never once throughout the story does she speak of Maryland in a positive manner. It is apparent that Lizabeth longs and desperately desires better: “there must have been lush green lawns” (135). Poverty holds the minds of the children of her community captive, and they feel trapped. The children in Lizabeth’s dusty community do not even comprehend that there is an entire world outside of rural Maryland.