They looked like wig hair, damaged and knotted, but felt like duck feathers.” It is typical for a fiction story to describe surroundings with such detail, but since this was written as a letter to someone, the use of detail is used to emphasize the loneliness of the writer, since she probably has nobody else to listen to what she has to say. With jack being gone, the writer has nobody else to talk to at home, so during various parts of the letter, one can witness how the writer is constantly giving her cat human traits, such as: “We danced the visitor-gone dance, flinging our feet (and paws)…” further indicating her loneliness and longing for another person’s
How does Susan Hill manipulate the reader’s fears in this extract? Susan Hill uses a wide range of techniques in this specific chapter as it play a huge role in the story as Arthur begins to discover more about The Woman in Black, this chapter in particular has lots of anti-climaxes in it to build up suspense and tension. The first technique is anti-climaxes, she uses lots of them in this chapter as it is building you up to something unsuspected, for example Arthur wakes in the middle of the night and sees Spider standing at the door described as ‘every hair on her body was on end, her ears pricked, her tail erect’ but further through the chapter after Arthur and Spider investigate what is going on, Spider acts as if nothing had happened ‘Spider came quite happy and stood obediently there’ this is a real anti-climax as thought the chapter you are expecting nothing to happen but nothing does building up lots of tension for nothing, this makes the reader feel a sense of foreboding as they know something will happen sooner or later. This also makes the reader question what Spider was so on edge about and what the ‘Bump. Bump.
Curiosity Killed the Cat After reading the four short stories, the proverb “curiosity killed the cat” seemed to echo through my head. This proverb is meant to teach us that if you are too interested in things you should not be interested in, you may be causing yourself problems by trying to find out things you don't need to know. If curiosity is used foolishly it can result in a negative outcome, for example, Bluebeard’s wife wanting to find what is in the forbidden room in “Bluebeard”, the heroine entering the forbidden room in “The Bloody Chamber, and Sally who is overly curious and wants to know every detail about her husband in “Bluebeard’s Egg”. In comparison, if curiosity is used wisely it can result in a positive outcome, for example, the woman in “The Key” presents curiosity as something positive in her seminars and encourages the women not to settle for the unknown but to fight for the truth. In the short story, “Bluebeard” by Charles Perrault, curiosity gets Bluebeard’s wife in a great deal of trouble.
She becomes almost paralyzed while trembling because of her incapability to do anything and knowing nothing about how to help the fawn. “She was thinking , I must do something, I must do something, but the immediacy of the tiny creature, its extraordinary physical beauty and terrible frailty distracted her, scattered her thoughts like a flock of birds frightened by a gunshot,” ( Oates 499) up until Lyle Carter arrives. Both female also tries to stop each conflict by asking to end the conversation. Along with similarities, both
Isobel shared similar traits to Diana, her apartment was just as messy, she was always seeking the approval of others and was also psychotic which is displayed by her obscene prank phone-calls in which she would verbally abuse whoever was unfortunate enough to be on the other end of the line. Isobel’s final quest for identity and change leads her to Mrs Adams house (Isobel’s next door neighbour during her childhood), Isobel finds out that her parents lied to her in order for her to be scared of Mrs Adams after Isobel wrote a poem about her cat. Mrs Adams tells Isobel that she loved the poem and that her cat ‘Smoke’ later died and followed with ‘’well, nothing lasts for ever, as they say.’’ Isobel replies with ‘’I hope they are right’’ implying that Isobel hopes the mental pain inflicted by her mother will not bother her any longer. After a final expelling of frustration Isobel says ‘’I am a writer, I am a
She spends all night watching the woman crawl back and forth inside of the wall. She begins to grow suspicious of both Jennie and John, believing that they too are aware of the yellow wallpaper’s secrets. She also begins to see the woman in the garden; she knows it is the same woman “for she is always creeping”(Gilman1899). She becomes obsessed with unlocking the woman from inside of the yellow wallpaper. Jane grows jealous, as she believes Jennie is secretly trying to do the same.
It came to mind that the jackals had attacked the cat while she was in a vulnerable position. I felt like a coward not having the strength to put it down in its pain. I could have used a braced thumb or nullifying stone to put it rest but I just couldn’t. I felt uneasy about the life of animals and the agony that they go through in the phase of dying. I then sat down and tried to calm her down with my hand.
Therefore, the snake can represent Delia’s protector, sin, death, or devil but it most certainly is a mirrored reflection of Sykes. Sykes routinely shows his lack of respect for Delia. One morning Delia, sorting laundry and wondering where Sykes has gone with her horse, becomes paralyzed by fear when suddenly something “long, round, limp, and black falls upon her shoulders and slithers to the floor beside her.” Again Delia is reminded of what a malicious man Sykes can be. He uses a bullwhip to scare her; she believes it is a snake. Delia
Towards the end of the story, the narrator begins to obsess over the yellow wallpaper that covers the walls of the nursery. She eventually begins to see what she describes as a female figure trapped behind the bar-like pattern and comes to believe that she and the figure are suffering from the oppression of being imprisoned. As her preoccupation of the wallpaper pattern progresses, she no longer has the desire to become who her family wishes her to be and instead thinks only of how she can go about releasing the woman from the wallpaper. She grows more obsessive and insane with the passing of each day. In the end of the story, the narrator has lost all sense of reality, and John discovers her crawling around on the floor of the nursery, following the pattern of the wallpaper.
A while later she is holding a fan to make herself shrink again. This constant growth and change upset Alice. For example, in Chapter Four she exclaims, "It was much pleasanter at home...when one wasn't always larger and smaller..." (Carroll 44). Therefore, it can be seen she is complaining about what is happening. As she is trying to sort out her dilemma in Chapter Two she is getting very upset and having an episode of nonsense over it, "Who am I then?