The reason to Conrad’s suicide attempt is his mom's acute coldness towards him shows her ultimate despise of Conrad because she blames him for not dying instead of her favorite first born son. After his suicide, Conrad is asked to see a psychiatrist by his father. Cal tries to bring the family back together, Beth, Conrad and himself, but fails to do so. Beth never once visited Conrad in the hospital and barely checks up on him to see if he was asleep. She began to shut herself from her husband and most importantly, her son.
CASE STUDY MR X WILLIAM SIM EDINB1A 11 WORD COUNT 1887 So let’s look at Mr X. He is 45 years old and has worked for the same company for 18 years. The job of manager is available but he is not sure whether to apply as he feels he may upset his colleagues, but he has done the job before when the manager was on holiday, so he knows he can do it. Is fear of failure holding him back? His colleagues think he is boring because he does not go for a drink with them after work on a Friday, but this is the day he visits his mother at her home.
They are no longer the important aspect of his life as all focus shifts to himself to become important to others who seemingly don’t care about him. Helen’s response to a company friend stating, “I know how much you will miss him,” with “I already have” shows the significance of her and the family moving on from Phil and his workaholic self. Later, while attending Phil’s funeral, the company president asks, “Who’s been working the hardest?” and provides the audience a sense that nobody noticed Phil’s hard work and dedication to the company, making Phil appear invisible to the people he was intending to impress. By doing this, Goodman illustrates the
They stop doing things they use to do for example seeing friends and family as much and make themselves less sociable. In society today it seems they help older people withdraw from life for example retirement and care homes stop older people being active in their community and in the world of work. Also by getting older people to retire and getting younger people to fill in there gap and take on the older persons responsibilities withdrawals the older individual as it makes them feel not good enough and like there too old to carry on so they lose their confidence. The
Joseph’s lack of support to the family triggered a divorce. His inability to overcome negative thoughts pushed him into depression and alcoholism. After the divorce, Joseph was denied a chance to be with his wife and children. He denied his children a chance to have a fatherly figure, and this is one of the contributions to his inner thoughts about his family. When he reflects back on how he was one time in love with his wife, he develops thoughts of having another sexual relationship as noticed by his attempt to date another woman without success.
In the poem “Diary of a Piano-Tuner’s wife” I believe the wife is suffering from a life of loneliness and lack of attention she does not receive from her husband while he is out “keeping the world in tune”. The wife is trying to teach her husband a lesson by throwing chaos into his well-organized life by digging the bed-row stones away, therefore throwing his garden out of order. She is ultimately trying to seek his attention and cause him to acknowledge her in any way. This is evident in the verse, “So only meanness every now and then is strong enough to make him stop and feel”. Perhaps his neglect is related to his own feelings of trauma during and after the war.
Also, when Curley’s wife is talking to Lennie, Candy, and Crooks in Crooks bunk she states “I think I know where they all went even Curley”(37). Curley’s wife knows that her husband is unloyal to her when he goes with the workers to a cathouse. Because no other character in the novel shows jealousy and deceitful, Curley is a bad to be a good husband to his wife it makes her talk even with Lennie. Because Curley ignores his wife and does not let her talk to anybody, he takes part of the responsibility for his wife’s
Holden decides to stay at a hotel instead where he can relax and not have to deal with anyone at Percy anymore. Holden feels sad every time he receives a present because he feels although he didn’t deserve it. For example, the ice skates his mother took the time to buy, and now he’s being kicked out. He feels like he let her down. Holden gives a fake name so he wouldn’t have to elaborate on his life to this woman.
Crabbe’s conflict with his parents is a major overreaction at the hands of Crabbe. Instead of communicating with his parents about the actions they commit that he does not like, Crabbe, remains isolated in his room with no means of communication with his parents except small talk at the dinner table and lectures by his parents. Crabbe’s lack in communications pushes Crabbe to run away as said in this quotation in the novel, “At the end we left the table. They went their way, I went mine. Their way was another party.
We are introduced from the beginning of Raymond Carver’s Cathedral to a man that seems to be perturbed and agitated. The husband “ wasn’t enthusiastic about [Robert] visit, he was no one [he] knew. And his being blind bothered [him].” (20) He is uninterested in the relationship that Robert has with his wife. (21) The only reason he knows any thing about Robert is because she told him, he didn’t ask and didn’t care to know. We see how selfish and self centered the narrator is as he has thoughts of, “this blind man” “coming to sleep in [his] house” and telling his wife “maybe [he] could take him bowling” (22).