But she simply negates her instinct and tells her that “what [she] felt was a draught, and shut the window” (Gilman). John does not listen deeply to what his wife says, he hardly ever really listens to her at all. The narrator says, “I wish he would le me go and make a visit to Cousin Henry and Julia” (Gilman). But john says that she “wasn’t able to go, nor able to stand it after [she] got there” (Gilman). He us always making decisions for her based on his assumptions on what is best for her, and not what she really wants.
There are several examples of her deceitful and untrustworthy actions. In the beginning of the story, “The grandmother didn’t want to go to Florida” (O’ Connor 9), so she made up false excuses to try to persuade her family to take her to Tennessee. On the way to Florida, she lied to the children about the secret panel by telling them, “‘There was a secret panel in this house not telling the truth but wishing that she were” (O’ Connor 16,17) so she can get what she wants and visit the old plantation. She also chooses not to reveal that she made a mistake about the location of the house. In addition, the grandmother talks about Jesus with The Misfit when she hopes that it might help save her life.
“I always lock the door when I creep by daylight. I can't do it at night, for I know John would suspect something at once” (Page 13). Though she knows that her husband would be suspicious of her if he saw her creeping at night, she was willing to take that chance so she might find out more about the yellow wallpaper. In addition to diction, Perkins’s main character conveys a tone of disobedience to disclose the woman’s separation with the cult of true womanhood. The main character’s tone suggest that she was ready find out things on her own and not have to rely on her husband.
The strong effect of her silence proves to show that actions can be much greater than words. The aunt refuses to reveal the name of her baby’s father, protecting him with her silence, but as a complement she is persecuted and shunned from her society. She “may have gone to the pigsty as a last act of responsibility: she would protect the child as she had protected its father.” (15) This “No Name Woman” fled her home and chose to give birth to her child in a pigsty where no one would be able to neither hear her nor see her, thus abstaining from having a voice and remaining in silence. However, in writing about this incident, Kingston is allowing this woman to have a potential voice by sharing her experiences with the reader(s) and expressing the position this woman was forced to go in to and by doing so, she is backing up this woman with a “community” in a sense, which portrays the greater strength a community has versus the minimal a lone individual is capable of doing. In addition, the author says that “the real punishment [of the aunt] was not the raid swiftly inflicted by the villagers, but the family’s deliberately forgetting her.” (16) Since a group of individuals, especially those that were relatively close
It’s like women in movies has taken a total role reversal in movies today. Throughout the movie she shows how she don’t listen to no one and just does her own thing because she knows that taking, the character Michael, off the streets is the right thing to do, even though he is black and is kind of shady at first. She has her husband asking her why she is letting this stranger in our house when you don’t even what he is going to do, and she doesn’t see him doing anything wrong. In the older days the husband would have been like no this boy will not stay in my house. If Sean tried saying this to Leigh he would of probably been sleeping on the couch.
It seems unfair, as she loves her child but she knew the consequences of having a child outside marriage, so knew what would happen to her and her son. Arthur Kipps is kept in the dark about the WiB, and is haunted by her. He is in an isolated place, he is a stranger to the village and isolated in the knowledge of the truth. He is unable to talk to anyone about seeing the WiB as if he does, he may seem mad himself. The WiB is a ghost; no-one can see her.
Sykes did not keep it a secret when he went to see Bertha and the only thing Delia says about the affair is, “that ole snaggle-toothed black woman you runnin’ with ain’t commin’ heah to pile up on mah sweat and blood” (138). Although it may seem as though she is defeated and Sykes does as he pleases whether Delia likes it or not, I believe she shows her strength by protecting her home that she has worked so hard for. By “putting her foot down”, she is saying she does not care about his affair but he will not do it in her home. At the end of the story, I believe Delia receives the greatest empowerment by having the choice to save Sykes or let him die. I feel Hurston also implies karma at the end of the story when Sykes dies by a bite from the snake that he brought home in order to scare
Brayan Burgos Dr. Stryffeler English 102 2/23/13 Short Story Analysis A family is planning a vacation in Florida, but their grandmother points out that there is an escaped murderer loose there and she would not take her family to such a place. She wants to go to east Tennessee. The next morning they head out and she sneaks her cat with them. After driving for a while, the grandmother thinks she remembers a plantation she once visited in this area. She suggests they go and the more she talks about it the more she wants to go.
Ibsen further hints towards secrecy within the household when Nora plays hide and seek with her children just before Krogstad, the truthbearer of the play, pays a visit. In All My Sons, Miller employs the theme of denial with Kate being intent on Chris not marrying Anne as this will thwart her hopes of Larry still being alive. According to Anne, Kate's guilt tripping in order to sustain her belief that her family is fine has "crippled" Chris and as a result, Anne has not been able to build a life with him. Joe similarly attempts to guilt trip Chris, warning him about "what's going to happen to mother" if he marries Anne in order to stave off their relationship. Joe's reasoning for attempting to make Chris feel guilty boil down to the fact that it will ultimately sustain Kate's support for him.
The narrator explains that the "grandmother didn't want to go to Florida" (320). Although a major conflict could result from her dislike of the family's choice of vacation spots, it does not. When the grandmother first speaks she asks Bailey to read a newspaper article that she has found. She attempts to change his mind about not going to Florida, by saying, "Here this fellow that calls himself The Misfit is aloose from the Federal Pen and headed toward Florida and you read here what it says he did to these people..." (320). Bailey does not make eye contact with her.