This is displayed throughout the story It its clear that they are both afraid of change Bailey didn’t want to somewhere new and the husband didn't believe in interracial relationships. The passage from when the Grandmother talks about Bailey's overall attitude in “A Good Man is Hard to Find” depicts this theory “He didn't have a Knox 3 naturally sunny disposition like she did and trips makes him nervous” (Connor 450). In conclusion,..... The actions of person can reveal a great deal about a person's
“Friar Lawrence, less ambitious and more desperate than his fellow manipulators, does not hope that Juliet’s death will dissolve the families’ hatreds but only that it will give Romeo and chance to come and carry her off” (Snyder). At this point Romeo and Juliet’s relationship could not solve the problems between the families and the Friar was only uniting them. This is what made the Friar so repulsive. Even now after deaths and family issues, He treated the situation like a game. “Hold, daughter, I do spy a kind of hope, / Which craves as desperate an execution / As that is desperate which we would prevent (4.1.69-71).
Which ultimately lead the women to hide critical evidence from the men because they wouldn’t understand anyways. The setting, characters, and clues all contribute to the theme of gender roles of men and women in this short story. A big contributor of the theme of “A Jury of her Peers” is the setting in which the story takes place. Being that the story takes place in the early nineteen hundreds, the women are not seen as helpful. The women are kept in their domain, the kitchen, throughout the entire story because that is where men believed the women should be.
The desperation of the hunt is the desperation of economical survival (301). This would be the case of the Bennet family. Due to the misfortune of only having daughters, Mr. and Mrs. Bennet have to try to marry their daughters to respectable young men to survive. Elizabeth knows the importance of being married to a fortunate man, but she also wonders about the happiness the marriage will bring. She knew that if she had accepted Mr. Collins proposal it would bring unhappiness to both “you couldn’t make me happy, and I am convince that I am the last women in the world to make you so” (73).
The main obstacle keeping mischievous Dev from keeping such a comfortable relationship alive is his selfish attitude towards Miranda, who still feels alone and suffers from being used to satisfy Dev's need for an adventure. The character of the story "This Blessed House" Sanjeev has married the wrong woman whom he has little in common with. Sanjeev's prime motivation seems to be his desire for a normal family life with a traditional wife who would share the same conservative beliefs as himself. But in his attempt to make his family the way he wants it Sanjeev faces a conflict between his hidden desire to be with a modern woman and his need for a proper traditional Indian wife. Both of them, Dev and Sanjeev, strive to change their lives, one towards excitement, another towards stability.
The reason he doesn’t go is because that is the day he visits his mother in the home she lives in, and she would never understand if he changed the day and would pick on him even more than usual. He would love to go out with them on another night but fear that, if he asks, they will say no. He would love the manager’s job because then his mother would see him as more successful and maybe give him more respect. He has a sort of girlfriend whom he would like to marry but feels he does not have much to offer her at present and anyway she might say ‘no’. He comes across as a gentle man who is very aware of the feelings of others and afraid of what they might think of him.
Anney began to seek happiness and fulfillment in another man, pushing aside her daughters’ need for love and affection. Bone becomes confused, straddling the concepts of love and happiness because she knew she too wanted to know love from a man, and have a fatherly figure in her life. She wanted someone to show her and her mother what that was like. When Anney started to date Glen Waddell everything appeared to be going well. Despite this, Bone and everyone else in the Boatwright family were still skeptical about him as they began to notice his short-temper.
The universal truth behind this story is that the innate differences between men and women coupled with lack of communication will cause a marriage to stagnate and become an uneasy compromise. Insensitive and inconsiderate of his wife's feelings, Michael openly admits his attraction to other women. Frances wants to know his true feelings and he gives them to her cold, "I got all this stuff accumulated in me because I've been thinking about it for ten years and now you've asked for it and here it is." (7) He does not acknowledge his wife's despair; he knows he is wrong and yet he feels righteous because so far it has only been a physical attraction. Michael blithely dismisses his wife's pleas for reassurance.
Arranged marriage is nonexistent, couples are free to marry whom they wish but the man needs to negotiate the marriage with the family of the bride. A bride price needs to be paid as well which is becoming very expensive because families see the bride price as a recompense for the effort put in raising the child. Each religion tends to marry within their own group. Homosexuality is considered an aversion and harsh penalties are imposed. The lack of allowance to homosexuality is blamed on tradition and culture but the main belief is homosexuality threatens the continuance of the human race.
And since, in her opinions, it’s an “astonishment that Wickham should marry a girl whom it was impossible he could marry for money”, the union of these two disgraceful people is both surprising and amusing news. Lydia would have attached herself to any other officer, clearly implies that there is no love in this relationship. The fact that Wickham has been such a scammer before shows that he does have commitment, but it’s commitment to the money, not the girl he marries. With that, there are high doubts that there could be understanding between two people, who marries each other not out of love and commitment, but because of lust and money. Next, Austen describes the marriage between Mr. Collins and Charlotte Lucas as a typical marriage during the Regency Period, which completely lacks love, but includes a moderate degree of understanding and a lot of commitment.