She never left the house. When the townswomen came to the house to offer up their condolences, they noticed that she had no emotion on her face, an emotionless stare. This is the first time she shows us behavior of schizophrenia. The townspeople know she is not stable emotionally or mentally, they enable her to maintain this delusion almost denial of her stature. She is in her on fantasy land.
Amanda kept a lot of secrets to herself, like that she was pregnant and that she was black mailing Cherry’s dad. When Amanda’s body was found down at the waterfront it turned out that she was pregnant. No-body knew about this, not her friends or her boyfriend, not even her family knew about this. In the novel Kate stated that she knew nothing of this. She said “There were things Amanda wasn’t telling her.” Amanda didn’t share a lot of her secrets with the people in the group which just shows that the group didn’t really know her at all.
They seemed to only pay attention to her. How she stayed in her home and never came out. How her father died and her sweetheart left her. They talked about her faliing fpor a Northerner, Homer Barron, who was also a day laborer and that did not come to there liking.Then they described a strong reek at Miss Emily’s house. A few towns people complianed about it, some people went to action.
This is a reoccurring theme in many of Coopers works, including “The Pioneers” which one could say center on Elizabeth Temple as thinly disguised reworkings of Cooper's sister's untimely death. According to Taylor, “the main difference between his life and his art was that in the latter James was able to manufacture a timely rescue for Elizabeth-the precise thing he could not do (and for which he could not forgive himself) -- for Hannah” (Taylor 326). Many people consider Cooper as “America’s first Author” (Reuben 1). Whilst being very celebrated, Cooper is known to be widely criticized. His unorthodox style has drawn many
Curley’s wife is unnamed, in part, to show her low status. Children often name various different objects and creatures, making them more important than the unnamed things in the world. This goes for characters too; namelessness gives readers an innate illusion of insignificance. Curley’s wife is not viewed as anything relatively important in the eyes of the ranch workers. Shown in Candy’s rude remark to her, “You ain’t wanted here.
Foreshadowing in “A Rose for Emily” Despite “A Rose for Emily’s” confusing and sometimes hard to follow sequence of events, many things is foreshadowed in this story. Faulkner uses a lot of foreshadowing in this story. There seems to be some type of foreshadowing in every slice of the story. Through the story Faulkner flashes back and forth through various events in the life of Emily Grierson and the town of Jefferson. The following paragraphs will give just a few examples of this .
James’ choice of language in the Governess’ manuscript displays this interpretation; Frequent use of the words, “mine”, “me”, “myself” give this interpretation verification. Her manuscript is written in first person, however her outlook on her surroundings and the story itself, constantly revolves around her own feelings and actions and very often little more than a monologue. James presents the governess as self important and as seeing herself as the centre of attention often. When she first sees Peter Quint, James writes “it was intense to me that […] he never took his eyes from me”. From the governess’ manuscript, how far away the ghost was from her, makes this account both unreliable and self important.
Perhaps there are other women around; Curley’s wife is still mistreated. “’…think I’m gonna stay in that two-by-four house…’” [Steinbeck 78]. Curley’s wife is never referred to by her actual name; she is portrayed as Curley’s possession. All of the ranch workers like George, Carlson and Crooks are very rude to her. Even Curley doesn’t not refer to her by her name, he always says, “Where’s my wife?” which can we disrespectful.
“A Rose for Emily,” by William Faulkner, was an interesting story about an abnormal woman in the community that everyone talked about. “We Real Cool,” by Gwendolyn Brooks, remind me of the stories my grandfather use to tell me about his community he grew up in. Reading literature is a great way to get in touch with yourself
You can guess on some of the experiences Krebs had while he was at war by the way he acts towards the people in town, the local girls, and his family. When Krebs gets back from the war he tries to tell people stories about what happened in the war but most people don’t listen or are entirely uninterested. From that you can tell he didn’t serve an important role during the war or never saw any combat. He also spends a lot of time observing the girls in town but never making any effort to introduce him to them. He was probably used to fast girls that didn’t care for a relationship but just physical satisfaction.