She did, but it was half-hearted and she herself said it wasn't the truth. She had loved Tom when they'd married, she said, but she'd loved Gatsby too. He lost her to Tom again because he pressured her. She was weak and endlessly dependent and Tom was stabile. Either she was too weak to figure out her situation, or a lifetime of having everything handed to her made her simply not want to.
I believe that when they first got married there was some kind of love in their relationship, but when they realized they could not conceive a child Don Elias blamed his wife. Even though it was most likely he was the infertile one, he treated her as if all she was good for was to take care of him like a maid. This is what made her a hard, bitter old woman. Dona Matilida believes it was her fault, and feels guilty about not being able to provide him with a child he so greatly desired. This caused her to turn a blind eye to what he was doing around town with other women.
When Liddy fell pregnant I was shocked. Liddy’s character showed that she was determined not to have a teenage pregnancy like what happened to her mother. Liddy said “I feel sorry for my Mum having to bring me up on her own”, Liddy getting pregnant shocked me because she didn’t seem that kind of girl. This event was important because it shows that a teenage pregnancy can happen to anyone. Even
Gould was exactly where he wanted to be. Joseph Mitchell, from North Carolina, had seen Gould one day on the streets of New York, and recognized him from university. He said that the guy had fallen on hard times and had refused repeated offers of help. Joseph Mit chell just so happen to be a journalist for the New Yorker, and there is a whole story to be extracted from Mitchell's hints about himself. The protagonist in the story is Joe Gould and the antagonist is Joseph Mitchell.
In the stories, A Rose for Emily by William Faulkner and The Jilting of Granny Weatherall by Katherine Anne Porter both women had different reactions to the similar situations of being rejected by their lover and losing a loved one. In Faulkner’s story, A Rose for Emily, the main character, Miss Emily, acted out irrationally when her lover, Homer, rejected her. All her life Emily was not able to have a chance with any suitors because her father always pushed them away. When she got older she began to loose her beauty and she felt she would never get married
Ethan knows that Pattyn doesn’t have a very good home life so he gives her a gun, for self-defense. Once Pattyn is home she finds out that she has become pregnant over the summer. She decides to confide in her “friends” and all they end up doing is tell everyone, including Pattyn’s mother. Now the little relationship between Pattyn and you mom, is now lost. The only person she has left to turn to is Ethan.
Once one thing goes wrong you’re scared to try it again. When Janie went through two marriages where they controlled her, where she had no freedom, and where they both ended badly, we can understand why she is hesitant. After Janie and Teacake got married she had all the fears and doubts in the world, especially after he stole her money. But after returning from gambling the money away with almost double of it back she realized she wanted to be a part of everything Teacake did. “…Janie looked down on him and felt a self-crushing love.
However, her mother thought of her daughter as a failure and they did not get along very well. The parable connects to this chapter because in both the mothers came to America for a better life for their children but it did not turn out how they wanted it to. Scar is about a girl who is raised by her grandmother, brother, aunt, and uncle. Her father died and her mother was a dishonor to the family who left An-mei when she was a little girl. Her mother became a polygamist in China and therefore disgraced herself.
The prenatal Cash was a part of her, someone inside of her from whom she could never isolate herself. In the reluctant mother’s mind, Anse Bundren was to blame for corrupting her sense of privacy and would be forever dead to her. In this way, she severed what was supposed to be the most sovereign relationship in a woman’s life and created a rift through what was to come of the Bundren family. As the family grows, Addie develops misconceptions about her relationship to her children. Cash had violated her aloneness, while Darl was deprived of the love that Addie poured so strongly into the void that was her third son.
. She begins to learn that no matter what, she isn’t going to find MIA so it’s time to stop. So she basically pushes herself to “move on” and let go of MIA. Near the end of the story, Aunt Cassie takes the bag of baby clothes and throws them in the fire. This shows that she has finally gotten over MIA and the baby clothes burning is a sign of letting go and Aunt Cassie is starting to breathe and return to her life.