When he is in the car driving to pegs house, he sees the beauty and the relationship of families and how they interact with each other it is obvious that he can’t fit into suburbia, which makes him sad, in the bogs dinner scene we can see the physical pain and distress of him not being able to be independent. Although Edward scissor hands are accepted in the beginning it’s obvious that he can’t fit into suburbia which increased personal suffering. Esmeralda is the outcast of the neighborhood. She’s a religious zealot, because she doesn’t fit into their own stereotypical group. Esmeralda doesn’t fit into suburbia also she is obsessive which makes her neighbour think that she is a freak.
While their dreams seemed unrealistic due to the challenged they faced, their fear of becoming like their parents was greater and kept them motivated. Although Gary, Homer, and Sara faced poverty, family conflicts, and lack of education, they were able to overcome their barriers and achieve their goals in life. Although these three individual were different in culture and dreams, they all had similarities as striving to better themselves and not end up like those around them. Gary did not want to end up working “Mexican hours” or broke and in despair. As for Homer, he did not want to live his life working in the coalmine.
The Corrupting Power of Women The portrayal of women in Of Mice and Men is limited and unflattering. We learn early on that Lennie and George are on the run from the previous ranch where they worked, due to encountering trouble there with a woman. Misunderstanding Lennie’s love of soft things, a woman accused him of rape for touching her dress. George berates Lennie for his behavior, but is convinced that women are always the cause of such trouble. Their enticing sexuality, he believes, tempts men to behave in ways they would otherwise not.
Literary Theory: Psychoanalysis In The Awakening by Kate Chopin, Edna experiences feelings that she has never felt before in her life. She finds that the life she lives is quite dull, and she begins to rebel against her husband, and her society’s standards for women’s behavior. These feelings can be explained by psychoanalysis, which involves the unconscious, the desires, and the defenses. Edna feels no love for her husband, and she feels that she is kind of like a caged bird, held down by her husband and her role and a mother and a wife. As an act of rebellion, Edna starts being very flirtatious with other men: She only looked at him and smiled.
In desperate need to feel loved Crane sets out on a mission to be married. She later marries a man that she’s not really interested in only marrying him to gain popularity. While reading the story I could feel the pain and imagine how hard she struggled to feel accepted. As being the only darkest in my family I often struggle to be notice and accepted too. This novel to me is altogether depressing and very hard to read without crying.
In this instance, John’s social standing as a husband and a doctor conspire against the narrator’s enunciation of her illness. A metaphor is offered that serves as a reverberation of the author’s paradigm. Elaborating on the woman’s vision, “she is ... always creeping, and most women do not creep by daylight” (Gilman 10). In its generality, the role of the married woman is obstructed by the public eye. The need to obey societal normality hinders a couple from venturing astray from the fray and furthermore, seeking independence.
She follows it because she is now programmed to believe this is the way of life and in turn she has become extremely tentative. She was raised to believe that you needed a husband to take care of you, although she personally believed she would do fine without a husband. She struggles with this because as I stated earlier, she did not want to be the average woman that relied on a man for her every need, but as time passed she became exactly that. Even though she was unhappy with her being, she wanted her daughters to follow in her footsteps and find a supportive husband versus going out and being themselves. She was satisfied with never wanting for anything financially, so much so she allowed this to distract her from the fact that she was emotionally unfulfilled in every aspect of her life.
He has a son that helps him, daughters that help around the house and a very old-fashioned wife that disapproves of many things that make him happy. The father works to his fullest day after day, but throughout the story he does many things that shows that he wishes he lived a different life. He is chained down to the harbor and feels that there is no escape to live how he wants and that his life is set for him as well. Both, The Misfit and the father, struggle to live their lives the way they think they have to. Even though they have many chances to release the chains that hold them down they experience psychological pressures that trick them into say “yes” to their current lifestyle.
Although they both have many similarities, surprisingly there are many differences between these two stories. However, Poe and Chopin use various facts to illustrate the ideas and represent the similarities and differences between Mrs. Mallard and the narrator, ultimately indicating that the two characters want to get freedom from their lives. The first comparison is that both of the stories narrators change their lives for a certain while because of confidence. Mrs. Mallard, from “Story”, makes a plan for her future after her husband dies because she is not a dramatic woman who is weeping and getting depressed after her husband’s incident. She has confidence that “There would be no one to live for during those coming years; she would live for herself” (Chopin 235).
It is also an ironic because it is clear from everything else she says that the author is anything but ashamed of her mother. | | “…hoped Mr. Hadley wouldn’t notice the car with our mother in it, and yelling and tooting…”(p.5) | This quote shows how the mother advertises their family’s poorness without shaming. |