This by itself sounds like condemning evidence that Brick is a horrible immoral person, but we the audience feels more of sympathy toward him than anger because of the unfortunate circumstances that occurred in his life. The audience never got the chance to meet skipper but we understand that Brick and him used to be inseparable; they were professional football teammates and would spend a lot of time together traveling and playing. Brick greatly valued this friendship however; many people including his own wife completely destroyed their friendship. People would call their friendship “impure” and “wrong” implying that they were homosexual. Margret, bricks wife, confronted Skipper and told him “Stop lovin my husband or tell him he’s got to let you admit it to him!” To prove her wrong Skipper attempted to have sex with Margret but could not do it, which made him even, believe that he was gay.
Throughout the novel Ethan is continuously drawn to Mattie, as she was much more attractive and friendly than Zeena. Ordered by Zeena to send Mattie away Ethan has to make a decision; either run away with the woman he loves or stay with the miserable woman he married. Torn between the two without money and the dreadful guilt to leave the sickly woman he is bound to by vows; on the night of Mattie departure they decided to kill themselves but the plan went terribly wrong, as Mattie became cripple and Zeena “miraculously” recovered and took care of them both. In “Ethan Frome” the theme silence plays a major role when describing the three key characters as they all are encased in their own silence: Ethan silent by nature, Zeena whom fell silent and Mattie young and new to a household who fell in love and unable to express it openly. When Ethan and Zeena had first met, "Zeena's volubility was music to his ears" (qtd.in Lauer 29), after his father’s death, his mother fell sick and silent for years.
Scobie never questioned the preaching of the church even when bad things like Pemberton’s suicide or when he eventually committed adultery and was having an affair with Helen. Even though he was portrayed as being the man everyone should be, he was capable of anger or cruelty but in subtle ways. Throughout the novel one notices that Scobie doesn’t love his wife but he feels that she is a responsibility and pities her whilst Louise has grown to love Scobie. Even though Scobie doesn’t love Louise he still tries to make her happy as it’s part of his inherited responsibility. Scobie’s decline from a just man escalated when he sent Louise to south Africa and he started having an affair with Helen Rolt.
True to George’s original estimation, he will go through his life alone. Another character who suffers from loneliness is Curley’s wife. It is her sexuality that causes her loneliness. All the men on the ranch try to avoid her because they believe that women are always the cause of trouble. She longs to have someone to talk to, yet she gets restricted by her brutish husband.
On Fatal Flaws in Ancient Mesopotamian, Greek, and Chicano Cultures Heroes were very important to the Ancient Mesopotamian culture. Therefore, the ancient Mesopotamians decided to create stories incorporating heroes and their flaws. The epic of Gilgamesh reveals that the Sumerian/Mesopotamian culture disliked flaws in their society like sleeping with people other than one’s spouse, trying to avoid the inevitable, and becoming too attached to small things. It was an old tradition for the kings of the culture to sleep with other women than their spouse the night of their wedding. Gilgamesh became very abusive of his privilege.
They say, “Love can be dangerous in the wrong hands.” In the poem, “My Last Duchess”, that statement is a fact. All that the woman ever did was smiled at the things that made her happy, but her husband felt as if she gave him the same attention as she would a stranger. He wanted to feel special and since she could not give him that extra attention that was needed, he decided to have her killed. He also took upon himself to tell the father of his new wife, what had happened to his last wife. He basically was informing the father that if his daughter does the same as his last wife then she would be killed as well.
First of all, John handles everything to an extent but he doesn’t solve the problem at hand. He tends to run away from it. For example, when the narrator asks, “why the house had stood so long untenanted,” he just laughs at her and doesn’t even investigate about it, which proves that he just let it go and does nothing about it. And that is what he does throughout the whole story. Also he “scoffs openly at any talk.” This means that he doesn’t talk about his problems and he would prefer to keep things bottled up then to express how he is really feeling.
This is proven in “The Yellow Wallpaper” because it is obvious that John truly adores his wife and never mistreats her (physically), but he sees her as valued property or a helpless child- definitely not a independent thinker. When she gets up in the night, he says, “What is it, little girl?” (Gilman 814). and advises her not to walk around like so or she will get a cold. In fact, when she tries to explain her symptoms or express that she is not improving, he replies, “she shall be as sick as she pleases!” (Gilman 814). Women of the time were not allowed to think for themselves, and while many were treated like angels of the house, others were married to unfaithful husbands or men who thought it was their job to “punish” their wives.
When he hears Terri’s story about her ex-husband he is quick to correct her saying that it was not love her ex-husband had for her. Terri, Mel McGinnis’s wife, believes love to be something entirely different than what Mel believes. As Terri begins to explain what she thinks love is, she explains the story of her past with her ex- husband named Ed. She describes her relationship with Ed as being very abusive and violent, yet he still loved her. Ed supposedly loved her so much that he in a furious passion beat her and dragged her around his house like
Blanche’s intimacies created her downfall as they weren’t permanent. After Blanches husband committed suicide Blanche was alone and felt the need to be intimate with many men so that she wouldn’t be alone, she thought that the men were helping to detach herself from the horrors of her life and stop herself from acknowledging her guilt from her husband’s suicide; Critic Kathleen Margaret Lant claims ‘Williams does consider Blanche guilty for not saving her husband from his