She even guessed her husband's happy behave, and pray god for her Jim. Such lifesome description bring us a pretty, kind, considerate wife. To describe the master-Jim, O.henry uses a very special way. When Jim reached home, found her wife's long hair had been cut off, he went awhile at once. But after his wife told him the reason, he wasn't anger, nor surprise, nor disapproval, nor horror.
Lazy Lawrence The story “Lazy Lawrence” is about a young boy, Jem, which lives with his mother and his mother cannot afford the rent. So in order for the rent to get paid, she was going to sell their horse, Lightfoot. Jem does not want this to happen so he takes matters into his own hands. He finds work with a mistress and saves every penny he gets to save his horse. When the day comes to sell the horse, Jem wanted to surprise his mother with the money, but then he realized someone stole all the money that he had saved up.
He actually bought her a set of beautiful combs for her beautiful hair. When he came home from work and saw that she had cut her hair to buy him a gift, he was very touched. I believe he had to be sad as well knowing his wife sacrificed her hair to get him a Christmas gift too. The two literary themes that I have pointed out affect the theme because they both exemplify exactly what sacrificial love is. The couple was very poor and they both gave up the most valuable items they had to make each other happy.
He often argued with his wife who in his opinion never supported him. Walter said to Ruth “a man needs a woman to back him up” (1132). However Ruth clearly did support him when she talked to mama about the insurance money on his behalf. She just did not want to encourage his fast money ideas, which she knew in her heart were foolish pipe dreams. He also gave his son Travis his last dollar.
When he comes back he says he was wrong about his uncle, he is not a good man. He tells them that he wants $200,000 and 1500 articles of clothing or he’ll burn down the town. Since Amelia’s Father is the only town official left in town, Josh says that he can’t leave. Amelia sends them into the house while she thinks how they are going to fix everything. Then, she has an idea.
But there’s other ways that made me dislike him also; he steals the money that is for his own daughter’s funeral just so he can go to the Shebeen and get drunk, I don’t understand why won’t he just get a job and use his money instead of the families saving. He isn’t much of a gentleman; he is such a useless
She protests that Bill, her husband, “didn’t [have] time enough to take any paper he wanted “ (46) and that it “wasn’t fair.” Adding insult to injury, Tess's own husband tells her to "shut up" (48) when she starts to contest his selection – as the head of the household, Bill is shamed by Tess's behavior. When the community as a whole repudiates her protests, telling her that "they all took the same chance" (47), Bill must join in the repudiation. One might speculate that he fears being tarred with the same brush, but we think it's something more disturbing than that: the tradition of the lottery appears so natural, so inevitable, to its participants that they cannot imagine protest; to
Harding states in her essay on the story, “Because Helen has been speaking about unrealized, not actual, vacations, readers must infer the connection that Harry makes. He seems to imply that Helen’s ability to imagine a host of scenarios for leisure is symptomatic of her wealth and privileged lifestyle.” (Harding, 2011) Johnston also states that, “It is quite clear that deep down (Harry) blames the corrupting power of money and the seductive life of hedonism, which the wealth makes possible, for sapping his artistic vitality.” (Johnston, 1984) Ultimately, Harry feels that he never really loved Helen at all. His choice in the end is whether to confess this
In the Gift of the Magi a wife and husband want to get each other something special, the husband has an adored pocket watch with no chain, and the wife has wonderful luscious long hair. They both love each other very much so, which is why, they both do something much unexpected. First, the husband goes out to work, and the wife contemplates on whether to get him a chain for his cherished pocket watch. While at work, he decides to get her a comb for her luscious long hair, but to do that, he had to sell his watch. Then, she goes and sells her hair to get the chain for his watch.
Alvin’s invisibleness changes very quickly for Paris when she crashes her mom’s fancy car and Alvin is the only one who can help. Paris doesn’t have enough money to fix the car but Alvin has a proposal. Alvin is willing to fix the car in exchange for two weeks of dating. With no other options, Paris accepts the deal. Although the situation seems unrealistic, Love Don’t Cost a Thing successfully portrays the typical teenagers strive for popularity and the lessons learned when one loses sight of his or her own identity.