This is the point in the book where she hates anything to do with her family. She absolutely feels ashamed and horrified her name is connected to Liang. Her precious stamp book was diminished to a piece of crumpled papers by the soldiers. When her classmates find out what kind of status she has, they avoid her completely. They even turn against her and make absurd claims about her like her brain is like her grandfather’s and they shouldn’t trust her.
From the beginning her living conditions are sub par, her house in disrepair and a widowed lady. The short story that was told gave me a sense of sympathy for old Ms. Fullerton because she stayed true to how she was raised. This makes me relate to my grandparents, (who have farmed all their life) moving into town where everything such as; wifi, hi speed, etc is available. They don’t really take advantage of this, because they are content with what they have, as Mrs. Fullerton was. I think the author did not give the readers the right picture of how life is changing.
Frank, in a negative way. It must be remembered, however, that Anne, the rebellious adolescent, sees her mother as an irritating figure of authority, and Mrs. Frank must surely resent Anne’s rejection of her. Additionally, Mrs. Frank is particularly miserable in the annex, where they hide, for she is from rich family, where she knew the finest things in life and never had to work. As a result, the confining, cramped quarters of annex, the scarcity of basic necessities, and the work are real irritations to her. She often takes out her frustration on her chattering, sometimes irritating, younger daughter, Anne.
She had hated the house that much.” This shows just how much Dee cared about her lifestyle and the location of the house. Resulting from her disrespect, she pushes her mother around. When Dee tries to take the quilts, Mama tells Dee that she had promised Maggie she could have them one day. Dee disregards her mother’s comment and begins to walk out the door. Mama realizes she must stand up to Dee and tell her that she cannot take the quilts because they are Maggie’s.
Maggie starts off in the story as having very low self-esteem, Walker describes her as, “Walking with chin on her chest, eyes on ground, feet in shuffle, ever since the fire that burned the house to the ground.” This has caused her to feel unattractive and not as confident compared to her sister. Being the younger sister, I feel she is looked down upon and not respected for who she really is. Maggie has not experienced as much of life as Dee, Yet, she seems to value it more. Maggie does not have any wishes to change her way of life, she has simply remained uneducated like her mother, but remains proud of who she is and what she stands for. Maggie has a close relationship with her mom; they seem to share a lot of the same views.
She is the modernisation’s beneficiary who receives a formal education. However, it has not helped her build a good character. She hates the burned house and in some way despises Mama and Maggie, her younger sister. Mama describes Dee as “a look of concentration on her face as she watched the last dingy gray board of the house fall
What conveys the behavior as acceptable most to Bone is the way her mother learns about the abuse and refuses to leave Glen. Bone convinces herself she is “trash” and that it’s her fault and she deserves it. Glen would sometimes justify his beatings as discipline. Bone was filled with self-hate. There were times where Bone recalls “afterward, Mama would cry and wash my face and tell me not to be so stubborn, not to make him so mad” (Allison 110) which places the blame completely on Bone.
Miss Lacy, Clayton Forrest’s secretary was appalled at the thought of a white girl staying with black women, referring to August as her. “‘I’m just saying it’s not natural, that you shouldn’t be ...well, lowering yourself’” (p. 198). Lily’s encounters with racism towards herself from black people and from white people as well, complicate Lily’s life. However, because of these experiences or external factors, Lily is forced to analyze her feelings towards them. By doing this, she is able to recognize her hatred and disgust for racism.
Both Eudora Welty’s short story "A Visit of Charity” and Rebecca Brown’s short story “The Gift of Sweat” share a theme of the unfortunate human condition of illness, mortality, and rejection by the rest of society. In different ways both main characters must face the truth that our fear of the elderly and dying is caused by our blindness to our own mortality. "A Visit of Charity” and “The Gift of Sweat” both have secondary characters that are in a same situation. One is an old lady in a nursing home and the other, Rick who is going to die, both are ignored by society and even their families would not come to visit them. As Welty and Brown indicate in their short stories, both main characters, Mariana and Rick’s caregiver, share similar tasks, but Mariana benefits less because she failed to develop a sensitivity to someone in need.
Kimsey's mother values money. She doesn't work at all and she forced her daughter to work as a prostitute to earn a living. She complains when her daughter doesn't get enough money and gets mad for a reason that her daughter is having a good time while she's left at home taking care of her granddaughter. This makes the viewers feel anger to Kimsey's mom because she doesn't appreciate the sacrifices of her daughter. Kimsey's values are completely different to her mom.