In the story, after killing Patrick, Mary goes to her room upstairs, practices cheerful routine then heads to the grocer’s and has conversation with Sam at the grocer’s. But in the movie, after killing Patrick, Mary stays in the kitchen, Mary then makes a call to Molly(or Moley) telling that she will not be coming over for dinner because Patrick is tired before heading to the grocer’s, she does not have any conversation with the grocer in the movie version. In the story, when he police come for inspecting the death of Patrick, Mary cries to make it more like she does not know about her husband’s death, everything is just an sudden , she is in shock but in the movie, Mary seems to be very calmed when the police come. The movie shows that the police ask Mrs. Maloney many more questions about Mr. Maloney’s behavior when he gets
Jim O’Connor was Tom Wingfield’s potential escape from his mom. Earlier on in the story, Amanda makes a deal with Tom that if he can find his socially challenged sister, Laura, a husband to take care of her, he can leave and never come back. When Jim comes, he leads Laura on and gives her and everyone else the impression that he likes her. But at the last minute, he tells everyone that he is engaged to be married and then makes a hasty exit. Shortly thereafter, Tom and Amanda get into an argument and Tom abandons them right then and there out of anger.
She also starts to blame people for her miscarriage as well as herself. Mariam and Rasheed’s relationship soon starts to fade and they begin to lose interest in each other. Chapter 15 Rasheed starts to blame Mariam for the death of their unborn child. Everything Mariam says to him irritates him and Rasheed shows a major lack of interest in Mariam. Mariam tries to do whatever she can to please Rasheed, but none of her efforts seem to work.He begins to become overly abusive with Mariam and the abuse is consistent.
She starts treating Dave like an animal and makes him lives in the garage and sleeps there too. She would grab him and smash him in the mirror, when the family is having dinner she would make him sit in a POW (prisoner of war) position. Sometimes she would make him starve for days. Dave then planned steal food from other children's bag but he was caught and his mom was called to the principal's office then when he went home his mother told him to go to the toilet and wait there she came there with ammonia on a spoon and made Dave drink it. The book states that around the time that the author turned five, things within the family slowly began to change.
Her character description states that she is “clinging frantically to another time and place” (1284). That other time and place was “The genteel, idealized world of the south during her youth” (http://www.novelguide.com/TheGlassMenagerie/themeanalysis.html) when she had so many gentleman callers. There are no more gentleman callers knocking on her door, but she regularly reminds Laura and everyone around her about the number and frequency of men who called on her. The character description also states that she “failed to establish contact with reality, and continues to live vitally in her illusions” (1284). Some of these illusions are about her, and some are of her children, but all are detrimental to the family’s’ stability.
She would give her child to servants to hold and never cared for her. When Johanna’s first son was born, she was delighted. Unfortunately for Johanna, her first son died at a young age. Catherine felt resentment towards her brother and did not care for his death. Johanna then pushed insults on Catherine constantly.
Meanwhile, the grown up Susie (Sandra Dee), neglected by her mother, seeks consolation with her mother’s suitor. When Annie dies, her daughter realizes how selfish she has been; simultaneously, Lora awakens to the fact that she has not been much of a mother for her own daughter. The young Sarah Jane is none too happy about her station in life, a
Eleanor tries to hide from Richie, her awful step dad at Park’s house but Park’s mother doesn’t seem to accept Eleanor until she learns about her home life and from then on Park’s parents are supportive and caring to Eleanor. After an amazing first formal date together, Eleanor comes home hoping Richie doesn’t know about Park. This is her worst nightmare, Richie found out and to top that Eleanor finds out that Richie was the one writing the obscene, sexual comments on her textbooks. Scared for her life, Eleanor runs to Park’s house and he drives her to her uncle in Minnesota. Once they arrive to her uncle’s, they come to the fact that they have to say goodbye.
The Cousin Obed Ramotswe’s cousin had a good influence on Precious Ramatswe. Throughout the novel we learn how strong their relationship was and how the cousin helped her to develop. The cousin was married, but when her husband found out she could not have children they divorced. She went to live with her mother in a very small three-walled room. Her mother was very disappointed in her and treated her without respect or caring.
First, she had this way of making her students feel ignorant. From the very first day of class Mrs. Garvin seemed to be very rude and abrupt. When a student feels uncomfortable and threatened it is very hard for one to learn in this kind of environment. I was scared to raise my hand and ask questions because she seemed to talk down at you and she made you feel like an idiot for even asking a question. An educator should have the ability to make their students want to learn.