However, he is quite stubborn and the lack of communication in their relationship is very unhealthy. His wife “[doesn’t] feel as if it [is] worth while to turn [her] hand over for anything” (Charlotte Perkins Gilman 4). He refuses to hear her out on anything, and makes all the decisions for her. Whether it is which room she is to stay in, or whom she is allowed to visit, John takes away every choice she has and every decision she may have made. He does love her, but because of the hierarchy in their household, and because he is a physician, he firmly believes that he is right in everything he is doing.
How does Livvie’s lack of education keep her from claiming an important place in society? Livvie has two obvious things that hold her back in society, her appearance and her speech. She even admits that she would come into the house “ragged and barefoot.” Her innocence also keeps her from participating in the life of a normal young girl. Being married off as a young girl, Solomon took Livvie’s innocence from her. He would not let her grow in to a woman, nor could she catch up to those who had an education if she even had the option of
Pontellier’s property. Edna partly believes that if she can prove her independence from her husband that Robert will want to be with her. She no longer cared about the needs of her husband she was fully lost in her own dreams. “Without even waiting for an answer from her husband regarding his opinions of wishes in the matter, Edna hastened her preporations for quitting her home on Esplanade street and moving into the little house around the block”(Choplin 84). Moving out of her husband’s house made her feel free, she didn’t want to be surrounded by her husband’s belongings, she wanted to be completely self-efficient.
The central theme of “Nikki-Rosa” by Nikki Giovanni is the true riches in life is family. First, the mother-daughter bond between Nikki-Rosa and her mother shows that her biographers don’t understand that she cares more for her family than money. In lines six and seven, then line fifteen and eighteen through nineteen, Nikki describes some of the hardships she faced in her childhood. “They never talk about how happy you were to have your mother all to yourself” (lines 6 and 7). These lines prove that her biographers didn’t talk about her love for her mother, or basically her family.
The washwoman is old, sick and all alone, but the notion of being a burden on other people simply doesn't even enter her mind: "the old woman didn't want to become a burden, and so she bore her burden." Her rich son couldn't tolerate seeing his mother working at such a low job, so he cut off all contact with her. Yet, she wasn't bitter about it:"The woman had a son who was rich. He was ashamed of his mother, and never came to see her. Nor did he ever give her money.
She is treated as less than a servant at Gateshead, despite being significantly more than that. Her fault lies in that she has no money of her own, and the only reason that the Reed's care for her is that it was Jane's uncle and Mrs. Reed's husband's dying wish that she should be looked after. John and Jane's other cousins take pleasure in aggravating her regarding her position, for example John Reed says to Jane, 'you are a dependant, mamma says; you have no money; your father left you none; you ought to beg, and not to live here with gentleman's children like
Montag never really thinks about what is happening in his life, or why it seems he never shows much emotion towards anything. Clarisse teaches Montag to look around and to pay attention to what is really important in life, just not what his society tells him. The second influence on Montag is Mildred. Mildred is a negative influence on him, trying to push him away. Mildred is his wife of a few
Although she was stubborn “The fact was this: Liesel would not get out of the car,” and she was also always determined to find out what ever she wants, her kind and caring nature surpasses this. Having to grow up on very little food, and little to no luxuries, you would expect she would have wanted more, but she did not. When her family was too poor to buy her a birthday present, she was her usual self. “Liesel didn’t mind. She didn’t whine or moan or stamp her feet.” From this example, it seems that the society did not affect Liesel’s good nature, although as we have already learned, it had made her angry, even more of a reason for wanting to do right.
Her divorce changed her life drastically, moving her rapidly from a middle class standing to poverty and causing her and her two children to become temporarily homeless. It’s obvious that Ann is a good mother and has taught her children responsibility. It speaks volumes to their dedication to her and how she raised them to be selfless. Most teenagers would not consider giving up their driver’s licenses and the freedom associated with it to help their mother save on car insurance premiums. It’s the “bleeding wound” that she can’t get to clot – paying high interest rates and not being able to make a dent in the principal.
These women are both heading for disaster; they let these men treat them as they see fit and do not take Linda and Ophelia’s feelings into consideration. Linda is weak and dependent in the sense that she always wants or needs Willy around. She wants him to quit the travelling portion of his job and work in the city, “but your sixty years old, they can’t expect you to keep travelling every week”, (Act One, pg. 14), although she puts it across as she does not want him going because of his age deep down she really just cannot be on her own. Linda may come across as a strong woman who has her head on her shoulders but she is weak and needs to have someone, even if they treat her as poorly as Willy did.