While out to see a show Ms. Miller’s character is introduced to Miriam, a young girl, who we then learn shares the name with our main character, Ms. Miller. Throughout the encounters that the story characters share, a tone of haste, confusion, and fear is used. “Because I’ve come to live with you, said Miriam, twisting a cherry stem. “Wasn’t it nice of you to buy me the cherries…?” “But you can’t! For God’s sake- go away and leave me alone” (47)!
There, Ashputtle asks the hazel tree for a dress, “to throw her down silver and gold”. (Grimm 630). The doves give her a dress laced with silver and gold. Ashputtle puts on the dress and she is off to the wedding at the castle. There she meets the prince and he does not let her go until she sneaks away.
They weren't only the audience, not only looking on; they were acting.” ❏ She is excited about having an almond in her cake which is very minuscule ❏ Towards the end of the story she begins to cry, hinting at herself realizing she is alone ❏ Miss Brill in my opinion is a widow ❏ The story was written in 1920 and it was very rare for a woman to not marry ❏ Perhaps the reason she made such a big deal about everything in the park is to help herself forget about her husband ❏ Perhaps her and husband used to go there every Sunday and that is why she attends by herself ❏ At the end of the story it reads, “She unclasped the necklet quickly; quickly, without looking, laid it inside. But when she put the lid on she thought she heard something crying.” ❏ Perhaps the reason she unclasps it quickly without looking is because it was a necklet that her husband and given to her and that is the reason for the
Then, she agrees that she is going to do it that day in front of all of her new friends. Her spotlight turns though because the hair cut does not turn out well and everyone does not like it. That night, to seek revenge on her cousin, she cuts Marjorie’s hair when she is sleeping and walks to the train station to go home. The setting of this story is in an unknown Midwestern city in the 1920’s. It’s based in its regular publication in May, 1920 (Witkoski 2007).
When she asks him about her mother who has died he refuses to give her any information. Lily the young girl has a prized possession, a
After a while it came towards me and start picking my things up and handing them to me. It asked me what I am, I told the creature that I’m a faun and I asked , “Are you sort of like a beardless dwarf?” It giggled and said “I’m a girl, a human.” Her name is Lucy Pevensie. I remembered that the white queen told everyone that whoever saw a human wandering in the woods must go and tell her. And so I invited her to my house for a cup of tea, at first she said she had to go, but after when I used some delicious cake and warm fire to persuade her, she stayed. My plan succeed.
Bella’s guilt caused by her mother’s fear of loneliness has left her short of any male relations. She cannot escape the wrath of her mother, and continually surrenders to her mother's will. Also, Bella has felt she cannot start her own relationship because her mother, in an effort to protect her living children, she has trained them not to feel by hardening them with punishments such as locking them in a closet or beating them with her cane” (Bloom, Harold. “List of characters in Lost in Yonkers. p67-68).
The purchase of the silk stockings leads to more frivolous purchases. She goes to the shoe department and buys herself some boots. She purchases gloves, magazines, and an expensive, satisfying meal. Finally, she treats herself to a play at the theatre, where she sits next to some upper-class women. Once the play is over, she realizes that she must go home.
Astrid’s life begins with her mother Ingrid, Astrid’s greatest “fear” (pg. 11) is her mom leaving her and never coming back. As we know more about Astrid’s mother we learn that Astrid does not have a husband and her father is “irrelevant” (pg. 26) Ingrid has all this rules about not letting men stay over at night but once Ingrid meets this man named Barry all her rules go down the thrash and Astrid begins to notice every single little thing about her mother. Ingrid keeps on having dates with Barry until Barry starts putting Ingrid into this oblivious road and soon Barry is nowhere to be found.
Still living with parents, no job, and no education, she didn’t know what she was going to do. How would her parents react to the news? She had many things running through her mind at that time. She was scared. What if my dad didn’t stick with her?