Female Characteristic In Oates’ Stories: As Victims of Their Own Desires. Joyce Carol Oates short stories in “The Collector Hearts” obtains different stories of women that show their most insecure features. The short stories “The Dream Catcher, “Rectangle Black Box” and “The Collector Hearts” can be seem as an example of women put in a victimizing situations that can make them seem vulnerable. In “The Dream Catcher” Eunice is a women that is a victim of maternity, in “The Rectangle Black Box” the aunt is a victim of her abusive husband and in “The Collector of Hearts” girl is in need of love. Female characters in Oates short stories are victims of their sexually because of their maternity cycle, of victimization and need for a men and/or love.
In both poems gender conflict is demonstrated between through the emotion of betrayal in a relationship. For example in Les Grands Seignurs she talks about “little woman” which could show the great depth of thought about how she feels towards men. The word “a toy, a plaything” suggests that’s once she got married she has became powerless and feels like she is a toy, this shows her betrayal as when you get married you expect the marriage to be fantastic and not to feel like a toy. In contrast, Medusa also demonstrates this when she says “wasn’t I beautiful?” this Is effective as I can infer that she feels insecure about her looks. It also suggests that she misses her past through the use of a rhetorical question which makes the reader feel sympathy for her.
Brandi Wilkinson English 1010 Lauren Poss April, 20, 2014 Analysis of _Characters_ Paper A Rose for Emily/ The Yellow Wallpaper In the short stories “A Rose for Emily” by William Faulkner on page 33 and “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman page 237 there are many similatries. The main characters in both stories are based on women who go from being depressed and lonely it insane. Both Women were forced into solitude just because there where women and the men in their lives controlled them. Emily’s father rejected all her choices for men in her live while in “The Yellow Wallpaper” the narrator’s husband John isolates her and doesn’t let her have any stimulation. She is confined to her room.
In “The Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin and Trifles by Susan Glaspell, the audience can further understand how terrible life for women was. After reading both texts it is simple to compare the lives, the relationship with their husbands, and the society both women lived in. These two women live similar lives mentally and emotionally. Women lived very differently before they had equal rights. There was a limit to what they could do or own.
Chopin’s story gave insight from a different perspective on the characters and situations in “The Awakening.” Psychoanalyzing the character Edna Pontellier was one of the easiest characters to analyze. She was going through what many women went through in that time of history. Women were filled with resentment in those days. Edna became the woman who life was only about taking care of her husband and children, which lead her to become more resentful and full of regrets when it came down to her life. “Her marriage to Leonce Pontellier was purely an accident, (Chopin, 1899).” Chopin developed the character Mrs. Pontellier that many women were in that day.
In Search Of Heritage In the story “Everyday Use” Alice Walker told the story from Mama’s point of view. The theme of this story is of a mother who is trying to cope with changing times and two daughters who are completely different. Having the story told from momma's point of view helps to reveal how momma feels about herself and how she defines her daughters Dee and Maggie. "Everyday Use" is told from momma's point of view which helps to reveal how she feels about herself. Momma feels that she is an uneducated person, she says "I never had an education myself," (157) this creates barriers between her and her daughter Dee who has a college education.
She published her autobiography Ghosts and Voices: Writing from Obsession in the spring of 1987 which detailed her life and all its confusion. Throughout her autobiography Cisneros creates a sense of disconnectedness with the world around her. She reveals feeling separated from society in her reading and writing. Her loneliness from being the only daughter in a family of sons and her helplessness to make friends separates her further from society. Cisneros said, “Instead of writing by inspiration, it seems we write by obsessions, of that which is most violently tugging at our psyche… there is the necessary phase of dealing with those ghosts and voices most urgently haunting us, day by day” ( 49).
It is undiluted that Steinbeck omits both a name and a definite identity in his creation of Curley's wife in order to accurately portray her. Like most women, Curley's wife's self-image is largely defined through her relationships with other people. Throughout the novel she struggles with the process of identity development. The reason why she struggles is because she doesn't have many of the key types of relationships women come to know themselves through, namely friendships and working relationships. The few relationships she does maintain, such as her marriage to Curley, are unhealthy and damaging to the frail sense of identity she possesses.
This financial difficulty and abject poverty provides a beautiful illustration of motherhood, which is sacrifice for the wellbeing of her children. Meeker sets the tone by exploring the family life in the start of the poem. She uses hyperboles to describe the conditions of the family. Meeker gives a look into the relationship between the mother and her daughter, the narrator’s sister. She writes, “they clawed their womanhoods out of each other” (3) which undoubtedly indicates that the two do not get along.
It’s not easy for Connie to live with her mother, who constantly harps on the way Connie looks and how she doesn’t live up to her sister reputation. “If Connie’s name was mentioned it was in a disapproving tone.”[453]. Every time Connie’s mother comments anything about June’s profile, it pushed Connie unconsciously to be nothing like her sister. Mother usually complained about her about habit of looking into a mirror. 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].