Their enticing sexuality, he believes, tempts men to behave in ways they would otherwise not. A visit to the “flophouse” (a cheap hotel, or brothel) is enough of women for George, and he has no desire for a female companion or wife. Curley’s wife, the only woman to appear in Of Mice and Men, seems initially to support George’s view of marriage. Dissatisfied with her marriage to a brutish man and bored with life on the ranch, she is constantly looking for excitement or trouble. In one of her more revealing moments, she threatens to have the black stable-hand lynched if he complains about her to the boss.
Winston letting the uncommon luxuries enter the room and making love to Julia shows he is rebelling against the Party. Although Julia and Winston both hate the Party and Big Brother their philosophies for life and the Party differ. Julia wants to live life to the fullest and have hope for the future while Winston tells Julia "We are all dieing" and believes there is no hope. They are rebelling for different reasons as well, while Julia is rebelling against elders, Winston is going against his lost child-hood memories and Big Brother taking away all
• ‘You aint ruined’ – sense that she is envious that the other farm girl can be no naive (could remind herself of her). Now she is seen as a second class citizen and cannot marry or have a family because she is married • ‘You blue and bleak face could’ - unhealthy because she is unhappy because she has no life or status DIDNT TAKE WHAT THEY WERE DOING SERIOUSLY • Although the reader is like to feel sorry for the poet, ‘we played’ tells us that she saw her loves as a game. Could suggest that she liked all the attention. • She saw them as toys too, ‘my hurdy gurdy monkey men’ • Now she realises what she has done wrong and is has set in she still shows now sign of sorrow, ‘o you didn’t know I’d been ruined’ the breezy tone is heavily ironic. • ‘You aint ruined’ – suggesting she was like her and wanted all these clothes and privileges
Sadly, all the unicorns and pixies always felt perilously around the gnomes. The reason I suppose nobody wanted to give them a chance was because of the lifestyle the gnomes chose to live. It is well known throughout the forest that gnomes are very obstreperous and most of them are vagrants. Along with which all gnomes are very exorbitant in tirades that they often have. Gnomes just do not know how to carry on a normal conversation.
Tom doesn’t seem to care that his affair hurts Daisy, he proves this by take Nick (Daisy cousin) to meet his mistress “I want you to meet my girl” (pg24). He seems to ignore Daisy throughout the book until he suspects Daisy is having an affair with Gatsby, and then he seems to come unglued. “I suppose the latest thing is to sit back and let Mr. Nobody from Nowhere make love to your wife” (pg130). Tom’s ego takes a hit when he finds out Gatsby wants something that is
Unsatisfied by her surly husband, she constantly sneaks around the barn, trying to make the workers conversate with her. Curley’s wife dream was to be a Hollywood actress but this dream is unreachable due to her ruling husband. She imagines how great it would be to stay in nice hotels, own lots of beautiful clothes, and have people want to take her photograph. Curly is so overprotective and will not let her do anything unless he approves it which really rarely happens. For her to reach this dream she has to have more freedom from Curly or just leave him.
Logan Killicks crushes Janie’s child dream and any hope she had for that perfect marriage and love, so with this new realization, Janie knows that she must become a woman and do away with her childish dreams. Jody Starks soon becomes Janie’s out from this world of woman and adult ideas, but even she acknowledges that he does not resemble the bee that she was hoping for. “Janie pulled back a long time because he did not represent the sun-up and
The arrogance and antipathetic aristocracy with ‘old money’ would never truly accept anyone who wasn’t born into wealth. Gatsby wasted his energy on a false promise of happiness and wealth, trying to win the heart of a woman who was materialistic, shallow and empty “his dream must have seemed so close”. Gatsby, believed in his future dream and love, he “believed in the green light, the orgastic future” but he became disillusioned “He did not know that it was already behind him.” In the end Gatsby died trying to grasp the American dream, pursuing happiness, wealth and love. Fitzgerald purposefully constructs Gatsby demonstrate the tragic outcome of someone who struggles to gain the dream with virtuous intent but becomes
The way she believes in the cat people form Oliver’s perspective portrays her as sick or crazy. Her passion turns to jealousy and as a result she pushes Oliver away. Ultimately she takes the doctors and her own life because of guilt. Oliver proposes to Irena and she tells him about the legend of the cat people. It becomes clear that Irena believes she is a descendent of the cat people and fears that she will transform into a panther if she kisses or has intimacy with another person.
Like the bees trapped in the jar, Lily feels she is stuck in impossible circumstances that she will never be able to free. Lily “…watched as they orbited the space in the jar, around and around like they’d miss the exit” (Monk Kidd 26). Her observation about the bees makes her realize that her situation will not to improve, like the bees, so she has to take matters into her own hands. This epiphany leads Lily to run away from her father with her African American housekeeper, laying out conflicts throughout the rest of the book. Another important aspect bees symbolize is human society.