She is an embarrassment to the family with all the gossiping she does and is one of the main causes Darcy does not find Bingley and Jane’s relationship acceptable. Mr Bennet married her for lust and now he has to put up with her ‘poor nerves’. I think that Austen is showing readers that marrying only for physical appearance is wrong, as beauty fades with time. Another example of marriage for lust is the marriage of Wickham and Lydia, but this marriage was also for money. Lydia is flirtatious and had her eye on the officers for a long time.
Then there is Myrtle who also comes from the low-middle class but her desperation to be rich is so big, she ends up having an affair with Tom. Myrtle seems to distance herself from her morals and values and cheats on her husband for her to be able to have the lifestyle that she wants, if only for a little while. But what she doesn’t realize is that she will never be accepted into the circle of people with money. Tom is only using her to feel powerful and admired by a woman, who is desperate to have him and what he has, which makes him feel better about himself, but that’s something she will never notice, but instead she tries to act
She married for love, and the love turned to dust. She had bonny children, yet she felt they had been thrust upon her, and she could not love them.” Even though she has everything she needs, a stable family and enough money to support her needs, she still wants more. She says that she is “very unlucky” because she “married an unlucky husband”. Instead of taking the responsibility upon herself that she is unlucky and does not have everything she wants, she blames others for her lack of happiness. In the end she turns out to be the luckiest character in the story because with Paul’s luck she gains all of the money he won.
What she expects from marriage is not happiness, nor love, but the man’s wealth which her husband does not possess. But she continuously seeks for what they cannot have, eventually leading her to borrow an extravagant necklace. So she loses the least bit of wealth she had, along with the necklace. “She washed the plates, wearing out her pink nails on the coarse pottery and the bottoms of pans.” Loisel blows away her youth, beauty, and even
Buchanan’s opinion, the only way to survive is through a wealthy man. This exposes one of Daisy’s many weaknesses: her dependence on others. When she comes to the realization that Gatsby would have given her more than Tom, she begins to cry: “‘They're such beautiful shirts,’ she sobbed, her voice muffled in the thick folds. ‘It makes me sad because I've never seen such – such beautiful shirts before’” (Fitzgerald 118-119). His clothing symbolizes the wealth and happiness Daisy could have had, which is why she is distraught when she acknowledges Gatsby’s success.
They consider her a burden, but have found a use for her, marry her off to the Mr Hathaway so they could keep him as a business partner. Alice Kingsleigh, on the other hand comes from a wealthy family. She is nineteen years old and the expectation of the society in which she lives expects her to get married, an unwanted marriage. Emily Grierson is the final heroine. She is much like Alice in the sense that she comes from a wealthy family, but there is one key difference from the other two heroines, her father does not want her to get married.
Willy’s affair and the usage of stockings also exemplify how poorly Willy thinks of his wife. Willy selfishly cheats on his wife and buys this other woman new stockings. This may seem inconsequential, but during that time period stockings were made of an expensive material and rather than buying new pairs women
This is one of the causes that made Edmond undone. He vows to take revenge on Edmond because of his jealousy. Fernand is another factor in Edmond’s downfall. Fernand is in love with Mercedes but of course, she doesn’t feel the same. She says to him, “I love you like a brother, but never demand anything more from me than this fraternal love, because my heart belongs to another.” Fernand was crushed because Mercedes is engaged to be married to Edmond.
Dr. Sloper tries to make his daughter aware but she is blinded by her love for Morris. The plot in the film is Catherine falling head over heels for Morris and he only wanting her for her money. The theme of this story is that Dr. Sloper is a brilliant man, and he is absolutely correct about Morris. Even though he tries to show it to his daughter, he does so very cruelly. Eventually Catherine realizes the all the hate
MAx word count: 400 In the opening scene of All my sons, Sue Bayliss helps undermine the normality. She is jealous because all the characters enjoy her husbands company more than hers and she is friendly to most characters. She is very controlling towards her husband to attract some of the attention he receives because she is very insecure. However even though Sue can bikker a lot towards her husband she seems to interact well towards Joe Keller as friends would interact in real life. Furthermore in real life there are some women who people call “gold diggers” meaning they just want the money so the fact that Sue encourages her husband to go see a “sick” patient to get a few more bucks helps undermine the normality of the scene.