Rip would go to the town's inn and sit with his friends and discuss past issues in old newspapers. He was an overall laid-back man and "If left to himself, he would have whistled life away, in perfect contentment" (Irving 939). The one thing keeping him from doing so, letting his life drift away, was his wife constantly complaining about his idleness and laziness. One day, Rip Van Winkle went out hunting to get away from his wife and labours of the farm. He walked along to the Kaatskill mountains with Wolf where he heard his named called repeatedly.
Everyone has their flaws and makes mistakes which make a relationship incomplete. I’ll be summarizing both stories, compare and contrast them throughout this essay. Even though problems always exist, you can always find a way to solve them. The weekend basically talks about two lovers, who live with each other, George and Lenore. George; a 50 year old man who is a retired professor with an obvious dark past that he seems, doesn’t want to remember.
He always overprotected Emily and controlled her movements. No man was ever good enough for his beautiful daughter. Once her father died, Emily became lonely and struggled with his death to such an extent, that she refused to believe that he was gone and did not want to release his body until three days passed and police forced her to do so. Later Emily meets Homer, and they began to spent time together. Townsfolk, from seeing the couple together, begin to think that they will marry and everything seems normal, until Homer disappears.
She was known as nothing more than the property of Curley. Her own husband did not even have enough respect for her to call her anything more than “my wife.” Curley’s wife was an outcast. Not one person on the ranch took the time to learn her actual name. Curley was short-tempered and eager to start a fight. He could easily have anyone who caused trouble with him fired because of his position as the Boss’s son.
Curly's wife is so lost, lonely and insignificant that Steinbeck does not even give her a name. She spends the novel trying to find company under the guise of looking for her husband. Curly is in fact an intensely abusive person with a major case of small-guy complex. The irony is that while she pretends to be looking for Curly, she is actually trying to avoid him. The men on the ranch fear Curly's wife.
In the book Johnny has lived a life of being beaten up by his father and ignored by his mother. The only reason he does not run away is because the gang has replaced the family unit. Johnny’s parents do not even know where he is half the time because they are too drunk to notice anything. Because of this, Johnny often feels unwanted, uncared for, and
Okonkwo’s wives are often beaten for the simplest of things, sometimes even for not explaining to him where they have gone. Woman in Umofia are not treated as equals. Okonkwo treats them less than equals, more like animals. An example is when he almost kills his wife with his gun. Okonkwo does not even think twice about his
His family abandoned, his son not even knowing what he was like had to ask his neighbors. A comment was made to his wife about missing him and she replied, “I already have. Missing him all these years.” (Goodman 398) It is important for a man to have balance in his life. Men can get so engulfed into their work that they forget to enjoy their life and before they know it, it’s over. Phil had a heart attack because he was so stressed out from work, and he didn’t have a life outside of work so he was always stressed out.
Chekhov’s protagonist, Gurov is a man who is rough, arrogant and manipulative. He refers women as ‘inferior race’ (Chekhov 205). He does not have feelings for his wife and describes her as “a tall, erect woman with dark eyebrows, stately and dignified and, as she said of herself, intellectual” (Chekhov 205). She rather seems indifferent towards Gurov. The reader gets an impression that she is aware of his infidelities and does not seem to care.
Julian does not care how he talks to his mother or how he handles her. Even though Julian talks or mumbles to her in a rude and unnecessary way she never really makes rude or smart remarks back to him. Julian is very arrogant and takes his mother for granted. Because of this their bond is not strong it is very weak. Flannery does an excellent job on showing the bond between Julian and his mother with her characterization on the Julian.