Unwisely utilizing money in large amounts to buy unnecessary objects, Jackie, despite supposedly being the second-in-command of her family, remains unaware her family does not have enough money to spend wildly and uncaringly. Therefore, instead of keeping the family strong, she sinks it into debt. Moreover, Jackie, by circumventing her reality check, similarly how she brings her family debt, believes she gains strength from her marriage to David, whilst, entirely opposite to her thinking, David does not gain strength from the marriage, even going as far as to describe Jackie as his wife is the same as having another child (Greenfield). Jackie does not have a stable grasp of the current reality. This also shows Jackie’s position in the family: equal to her children, meaning she has no power within it—she has no role.
Take Beryl for example, Carl never has enough confidence and motivation to stand up to her for the way she treats Harley. It is only towards the end of the book where he finally stands up for himself and also Harley. Justine played a big role in this, because as Carl started opening up to her, he became more and more confident and self-assured. Beryl never took responsibility for the kids. “If you just stayed with him, Kept an eye on him, loved him, he wouldn’t get into trouble.’ It’s because of Beryl Harley gets into strife.
Where as before he was coming across as strong and bold we now see him acting weak and awkward representing quite an feeble male in the presence of a woman that he isn’t related to. The effect the female characters have on the males is not something that is just apparent in Donnie Darko but even more so in American Beauty. Although Lester never comes across as a particularly strong or male chauvinist character he does modify his behavior significantly when Angela is brought into the picture. Although we see Lester take a back seat in his suburban husband role, he doesn't really value Carolyn or give her any respect he just seems too compliant and dismal to care or argue back to her. Carolyn’s complete lack of respect for Lester makes him look
Meursault is the complete opposite; he lives in the moment and goes along with things without thinking them through. He is neither a controlling nor an overly organised man and seems to live with the basic necessities. Significant events like marriage or a parent’s death would normally have a massive impact on the individual person, but for Meursault, this is not so. Significant events such as these do not seem to matter to him on any sort of sentimental level. For example, he did not react how people expected him to over his mother’s death in the beginning of the book, instead of being
Nevertheless, not one has high levels of intelligence, diligence, or any reals goals for themselves, except of course, finding their prince charming. They rely on others to save them and bring them happiness. They do not show any fortitude when faced with challenges in their lives, and often run away when conflict because difficult. One may think that they are incapable of solving struggles in their lives because men will always save the day for them. They are self-centered and act on pleasing themselves even at the expense of a
The two generate an interesting debate; however they might lose their credibility because Robert brought the fact that Jacqueline was married which is not job related and could be discriminatory to unmarried applicant while Paul he continually refer about Sonya’s enthusiasm and could be the selling point but this is not also offer any substantial reasons for her preference. One thing that I observed for the two is that Robert and Paul have a very good relationship – when they do have disagreements they are understanding and accepting of their differences and compromise when necessary. Robert doesn’t think too highly of the swinging bachelor persona, but it hasn’t affected job performance – anyway, it’s diversity that makes life
Happy Endings in Raymond Carver Stories (cathedral and a Small Good Thing The stories “Cathedral” and “A Small, Good Thing” are two different stories, but the two main characters share some similarities. In “Cathedral”, the narrator, who is the main character, was caught up in his own blindness. He was trapped in his own world and neglected some of the most important things in his life. He was very jealous, inconsiderate and always disconnected himself from others. He was not open up to changes; he preferred to stay in his old ways.
What is the source of conflict between Willy and the boys? The conflict between Wily and the boys is that he wants them to be successful and they were not striving their best to do so. Wily was not really there for his boys because he was always on the read. Wily built them up but really didn’t teach them anything. 7.
She follows it because she is now programmed to believe this is the way of life and in turn she has become extremely tentative. She was raised to believe that you needed a husband to take care of you, although she personally believed she would do fine without a husband. She struggles with this because as I stated earlier, she did not want to be the average woman that relied on a man for her every need, but as time passed she became exactly that. Even though she was unhappy with her being, she wanted her daughters to follow in her footsteps and find a supportive husband versus going out and being themselves. She was satisfied with never wanting for anything financially, so much so she allowed this to distract her from the fact that she was emotionally unfulfilled in every aspect of her life.
Gaffney highlights John’s alienation because of the new world’s discouragement for Shakespeare. The awkward situation leaves him embarrassed, beginning his isolation from modern society. John’s entire life has been spent in solitude reading Shakespeare. Suddenly immersed in a society in which his behavior is completely taboo, John finds himself even further separated from the community than he was on the reservation. Bernard observes that John may never be able to completely assimilate into this environment, “partly on his interest, being focused on what he calls ‘the soul’ which he persists in regarding as an entity independent of the physical environment” (158).