Her great aunt had been showing signs of mental derangement and the town’s people found that since it was hereditary she could have it leading them to say “even with insanity in the family” (Pg.2). Many townspeople said “she had gone completely crazy at last” referring to Miss Emily and that had folks had begun to feel bad for her because of it (Pg. 2). More evidence that led the general public to believe Miss Emily was a lunatic was that she slept with a dead man. After Miss Emily had died they recovered Homers body and discovered a fresh hair on the pillow next to his that suggested she had been sleeping with the dead body all along.
That night, a jet engine strangely crashes through the roof of their house, destroying Donnie's room. If he hadn’t been sleepwalking, he would have been killed. On the way to the office of Dr. Thurman, Donnie's therapist, Donnie and Eddie nearly run over Roberta Sparrow, also known as "Grandma Death". A senile old woman who spends her days walking back and forth from her house to the mailbox across the street, Grandma Death whispers in Donnie's ear that all that lives ultimately dies alone. This greatly troubles Donnie, who worries that life has no meaning.
This extract from Act Four Scene Five of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet is the scene where Juliet is discovered lying lifeless on her bed the day she was supposed to marry Paris. Her family and Paris mourn her apparent death. The audience, unlike Paris and the Capulets, knows that Juliet is not really dead, but has taken a potion that will make her appear dead as part of an elaborate plan by Romeo, Juliet and Friar Lawrence. In later scenes, the Friar's message that Juliet's death is not real will be miscommunicated to Romeo, and this would cause him to end his life and thus lead to the tragic ending of the play. All of Juliet's family members seem to show more emotion and care more about Juliet than they ever did when she was alive.
It was 1929; Malcolm was four years old. There, unfortunately, the harassment was, if anything, worse. Soon after moving into their new home, the house was set on fire. Malcolm later recalled, bitterly, how fire fighters arrived on the scene but, on seeing that it was a black family, refused to help. Malcolm XIn 1931, Malcolm’s father died in mysterious circumstances, run over by a streetcar.
Her brother was indeed very ill .Due to the fact her brother was very ill, her mother quit her job, and decides to stay home to care for him, and her father was never always home. In fact to all this, Callie has addiction she can't let go. She cuts herself whenever no one is in site. She turns almost everything, she can find into weapons in order to cut herself. Her parents later finds out and send her to a facility for girls, a place called Sea Pines.
Grampa Joad starts becoming ill during the same time frame that the dog was killed becoming the next turn of events for the family. Grampa never makes it to California because he passes away due to a stroke. Everyone is in shock over this, especially Gramma Joad, and Pa Joad becomes the head of the family. Grampa’s death affected Gramma so much that she gives up on life and Ma Joad makes it her goal to get Gramma to California no matter what. In order to get to a doctor, Ma bluffs her way through the Inspection station.
Also after her father dies she is in complete denial that he is dead and acts as though he is still alive until the townspeople almost have to use force to take the body away (par. 27). This also explains why the body of Homer Barron is kept after she kills him. For a while after her father dies she is sick and it isn’t until the summer after her fathers death that she is seen again with a northern foreman named Homer Barron. They are seen together taking rides in his buggy with a matched team of bays (par.30) and it is assumed by the townsfolk they are having
Finally after three days, Miss Emily breaks down and allows the townspeople to bury her father. Miss Emily then becomes sick for a long time. The isolation that Miss Emily endured with her father sets the stage for the remainder of her life. Unfortunately for Miss Emily, the isolation and even the possibility of an incestuous relationship with her father caused such a decline in her mental state that true mental illness began to take shape. When Miss Emily shows no
The chief architect of her misery is the tyrannical housekeeper, Mrs. Cotton, who punishes Abi for the slightest infraction. The return of Lord Greave’s son Samuel, injured in the Crimean War, seems to have only worsened his Lordship’s mental condition. And the ghost is none other than Abi’s mother, who had been Samuel’s childhood nurse before her death a year earlier. After Abi’s foiled escape from Greave Hall, strange things start to occur. There is a mysteriously closed bolt that should be been left open.
In this famous novel, Blanche Dubois goes to live with her sister Stella Kowalski. She has to tell her sister the bad news that she lost their family home, Belle Reve, and also took off from her teaching job due to her bad nerves. This is the first indication of Blanche’s insanity. She is clearly unaware because she says, “Is there something wrong with me?” Another sign is Blanche’s horrible drinking habit, which research shows can lead to making horrible decisions and can alter ones life. “Both Blanche’s drinking and her endless hot baths suggest that she is attempting to wash away her past and emerge through a sort of watery purgatory.” Stanley, Stella’s husband, does not really like Blanche and accuses her of being crazy, which is an accurate description.