Yet after her mother tells her the story of Rose's maternal grandmother, who never knew worth until death, the formerly weak-willed Rose becomes determined to assert herself. When Ted comes for the divorce papers, she tells him that he can't just throw her out of his life. She fights for possession of the house and their daughter, and eventually wins her husband back (The Joy Luck Club, Answers.Com). The film shows how Rose has been “unfree” upon entering the marriage with Ted. From the very beginning, Rose has been struggling because of an “external force” that she cannot control.
Curley’s Wife Curley’s wife is an extremely complex character in the novel “Of Mice and Men.” Steinbeck excellently portrays this throughout the novel with the detailed ways in which he describes her looks and everyday behaviour. Before we even meet Curley’s wife we know that George thinks she will be trouble. This prepares the reader for future events and we begin to dislike her immediately. Curley’s wife is treated with so little self respect, hence why she is never referred to by her first name; this highlights the prejudice against women in the novel and shows she has no importance amongst the ranch workers. She is also a good-looking lady who wears a lot of makeup, form-fitting dresses, and ostrich feathered-high heels.
At the Netherfield ball Austen shows how Mrs Bennet’s overly direct, loud comments are an embarrassment to her husband and daughters as she loudly tells the guests on her table her mission to marry off her daughters. Although her manners are rather intolerable she herself believes she has good manners and her behaviour is acceptable. The social etiquette of the early nineteenth century was very different from todays as in it was expected for women in the Bennet’s social scale to better their position in life by marrying someone of a higher class and with money, women had no real choice of their marriage partner themselves it was usually their parents had to choose the right suitor as demonstrated by Mrs Bennet. Elizabeth found her mother rather blush making, “Her mother would talk of her views in the same intelligible tone. Elizabeth blushed and blushed again with same vexation”.
Mama imagines being reunited with her daughter on a television show where the celebrity guest is confronted with her family, and she is greatly tearful and thankful for her origins. Maggie, who is not bright and who bears severe burn scars from a house fire many years before, seems jealous with her glamorous sister. Real life is not like TV show, however, Dee comes and brings a man who may be her husband but Mama is not sure whether they are actually married. She has gone to college and now seems almost as distant as a film star. She wears an ankle-length, gold and orange dress, jangling golden earrings and bracelets, and hair that “stands straight up like the wool on a sheep.” She greets them “Wa-su-zo-Tean-o” which neither of Mama nor Maggie understand.
Eveline sees the kind of life she is leading from her mother’s unhappiness. This is the reason Eveline wants to break away and be a free woman. However a part of her sees the good in the situation with her family and it is all the good memories she cannot let go of. Eveline is scared to let go. She desires to escape but her weakness to stay with the familiar takes over.
It’s not easy for Connie to live with her mother, who constantly harps on the way Connie looks and how she doesn’t live up to her sister reputation. “If Connie’s name was mentioned it was in a disapproving tone.”[453]. Every time Connie’s mother comments anything about June’s profile, it pushed Connie unconsciously to be nothing like her sister. Mother usually complained about her about habit of looking into a mirror. The narrator states the mother’s resentment of Connie’s beauty because “her looks were gone and that was why she was always after Connie.”[451].
The advantage she sees in being “only a daughter” would be that she had her destiny in finding a husband. 4. Why does her father think she has wasted her education? What is her reaction to his opinion? d. Her father believed in her education because he believed she would actually find a husband.
She tells him she will do it because she doesn’t care about herself. Through this line we see that she wants the child, but has a fear of losing the man. The girl realizes that if she chooses to keep the child he will probably leave her. During this time period being a single mother was unacceptable and looked down upon. The girl would have to face the harsh reality of society if she chooses to keep the child.
He holds grudges against it, but he loves her and therefore he stands by her choice. Diane is a very sensitive, honest and in a way shy girl, she is scared that she might end up, standing in the same position as her mother did, when her father walked out on them. The fear of being alone, heartbroken with a child and no man, when very young is something she tells her mother and herself, will never happen, but deep inside it frightens her. She is in denial, when it
She is also very naive, defenseless, and loyal to the men in her life; which is why throughout the play it seems as though she never makes decisions for herself, they were always based on what others wanted. If she hadn’t been so obedient would she have remained sane, would her life be spared? Ophelia is a character who has been viewed differently by different audiences. An audience from today’s society would view her as weak compared to women today. She obeys the male authority in her life because she believes it to be her duty.