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]. Connie doesn’t make the situation between the two any better by instigating her mother with curt answers and rude responses. “Her parents and her sister were going to a barbecue at an aunt’s house and Connie said ‘no’, she wasn’t interested, rolling her eyes to let her mother know exactly what she thought.”[453]. the only time Connie fully admits that she truly did love her mother was when she was crying in the phone for her. Connie’s father is a quiet bystander when it came to his wife and daughter heated arguments.
While Tita dazzled her sisters with a cooking display, “Rosaura was cowering in the corner” . When she does join, in she uses her hands “gingerly” and “resisted and …struggled for control” with Tita. Rosaura’s “picky” approach to food is the essence of who she is. Her disconnection from food is symbolic of her disconnection from Tita and her sense of being true to herself. She resists Tita’s emotional plea not to marry Pedro, knowing that they are in love.
To Sammy’s pleasure, Queenie and her two friends pick his register to purchase the "Fancy Herring Snacks in Pure Sour Cream" (Updike) that the mother of queenie asked to purchase. Queenie puts the snacks on the counter; Sammy looks at her hands and notices that she wasn’t holding any money. He was wondering where she’s going to get the money from, she pulls the money "out of the hollow at the center of her nubbled pink top" (Updike). This is when Sammy makes the decision to try to impress her. When the store manager approaches Sammy’s lane, he felt this was his big chance to impress queenie.
Her mother becomes disinterested in Waverly and no longer cares about her. Instead, she tells the family that “this girl not have concerning for us” (10). With this cruel and undeserving statement, Ma pushes away Waverly since she knows that Waverly is no longer out to please her. Moreover, she tells the family to not care for Waverly either, completely isolating her daughter from the rest of the family. Mother blocks Waverly from living a good life with her shallow values and lack of love towards her only
Using Carla’s character to narrate the story from start to finish is a clever technique used by Helen Dunmore as it shows the reader that Carla is not connected to any of her colleagues or her boss and that neither does she share an intimate relationship with any of them; the narration therefore does the job of presenting her as an outsider. We know that Carla doesn’t have a relationship with the adults around her as she say that she “dishes out buns to the teachers... and shovels chips on to the kids’ trays, however she clearly states that she likes the job due to the kids, but does not mention the adults again. We are shown that she detaches herself from her work community, in the text she states that ‘the teachers’ pay for their tea and buns, instantly telling us that she differentiates herself from other people around her because they make her uncomfortable and as a result of this she’s gathered more than one fragmented relationship, similar to that of the young boy and his dad in the compass and the torch. We are constantly reminded in the compass and the torch, of the broken relationship between the father and son. The story starts off with a simple, subtle yet extremely meaningful sentence, “The road ends at a gate”, and this could easily be interpreted as the end of a
Brave and strong, she defends herself from a street thug, and she strikes back when she is treated as a non-human by the clerks at the Social Security office. Not being up to date with times you see the frustration in Marie though out the story. Quite bothered and understandably so, Marie asks the receptionist, “Why have me wait here so long if she whatn't here?” who says, “…I know. I know.” Saying …nothing more…Marie leaves.”(Jones p. 233) Next appointment she approaches Vernelle and reiterates how long she had been waiting Vernelle says, while “…pointing her fingernail… ‘I told you you’ll be waited on as soon as possible. It’s a busy day…go back to your seat until we call your name.’ Another secretary laughs.
All Rose would have to do is warm her meal up either in the oven or the microwave. Furthermore, if Rose does not have meals on wheels she has the support of carers and her daughter this is where they will come to Roses home and prepare meals for her. Furthermore, older adults need a diet filled with vitamin D as this new diet needs to replace the natural vitamin D which a person gets from the sun. An older person needs to introduce a diet filled with vitamin D due to a person not going outside as much, therefore they have no way of getting the essential vitamin D. Rose has mobility problems therefore Roses diet may be influenced as her body may not be able to get the vitamin D like it use to. Rose will have regular appointments from the GP this is where the GP will realise the new need for a vitamin D filled diet and will suggest her thoughts to Roses careers and daughter.
She gives her instructions on how to speak, act, cook, clean, and how to carry herself as a lady. The way that the daughter is spoken to is not in a gentle manner filled with love. The mother speaks down to her child telling her such things as, “this is how to behave in the presence of men who don’t know you very well, and this way they won’t recognize immediately the slut I have warned you against becoming” (Kincaid 44). This statement can lead to the belief that perhaps the girl within this story had done something that her mother had considered very slutty and she wasn’t going to let her daughter get away with thinking it was acceptable behavior. It can be assumed that this daughter probably just started her monthly period, from the line towards the beginning to “soak her little clothes right after she takes them off” (Kincaid 43).
Jill and Madame Loisel reacted to hard situations different. Jill does not like to ask for help, so when the sixty-six women showed up at the pancake shop she thought she could do everything by herself. ‘“A table for sixty-six,” said a woman laughing. My lungs collapsed. Sixty-six hungry environmentalists.
Later that night when maybe leave's Norma Jean tells Leroy; "She just said that about the baby because she caught me smoking. She's trying to pay me back" (621). In the falling action, Norma Jean’s relationships with her mother is becoming tense and is making Norma Jean realize how controlling her mother is over her life. Leroy is not doing anything to help the relationship between Norma Jean and her mother any better. Mable is sitting with Leroy and tells him, "I don't know what is going on with that girl" (621).