She asked Phoenix was she deaf as she took a moment to respond and the nurse identifies Phoenix as “Old aunt Phoenix.” The nurse also gets frustrated with Phoenix and her memory loss. All of the disrespect in the doctor’s office is trying to show Phoenix that she must pay in order for her grandson to be healthy. She knows that if she doesn’t get the medicine that he is going to die and she loves him too much to allow that occur. Phoenix also suffers loneliness during her journey. For instance she moves like the “pendulum in a grandfather clock,” which steadily marks time alone.
Dunstable Ramsay Character Analysis In the novel, Fifth Business by Robertson Davies, the character, Dunstable Ramsay is effected by his relationships with women. He experiences guilt, social isolation, and love due to the interaction and relationships with his mother and Mrs. Dempster. The relationships that Dunstable has with these women change the way he acts, feels and is treated by others. Dunstable faces guilt when he ultimately causes the birth of Paul Dempster by jumping in front of a pregnant Mary Dempster, to avoid a snowball. He faces isolation as he learns to not trust women, through experiences with his mom.
Year of Wonders is a deeply moving novel containing heartbreaking themes and stark reality. The novel is based in Eyam, a small English village, in 1666 and written from the point of view of Anna Frith, a non-affluent maid who lost her two young sons and husband to the plague which swept through their village. One of the novels primary themes is conflict, and throughout the book the responder can discover how each of the characters deal with the conflicting issues they are faced with. With ‘Year of Wonders’ written in first person from Anna’s point of view, the reader get’s to experience her emotions and actions which have been caused by the conflict she is experiencing. Anna reacts physically, emotionally and spiritually to the conflict she is faced with during the time of the Plague.
Comparatively, she is unexpectedly thrown into the unknown when her family dies and she is left to help the community and forget about her needs. As the panic sets in when she enters the shaft, she is facing more and more doubts about her future separately. Brooks also shows the reader an insight into the world of the people living with the Plague: dark, dangerous, and seemingly hopeless. Overall, Brooks uses symbolism to show aspects of the Plague’s influence on Anna and the town in
All she has to talk to is ‘nobody but Curley’. Her dreadful frustration at being like this is made obvious when she is speaking to Lennie in the barn. Steinbeck writes; ‘And then her words tumbled out in a passion of communication as though she hurried before her listener could be taken away.’ The word ‘tumbled’ is used to suggest how desperately she needs to talk to someone. The word ‘passion’ is used to suggest the strong powerful need that she has to communicate how she feels to Lennie and it also stresses her impulsive nature. So far in ‘Of Mice and Men’ Curley’s wife has been presented in a negative way, in section 5 Steinbeck shows another side of her which has compassion and caring
ENG – 111-IN October 19, 2014 Three Blind Mice: See How They Run “Three Blind Mice” is a prime example of how little a person really knows about his/her mate. Though many people would like to believe that the past has no affect on the future, author Agatha Christie proves that the past can dictate a lot of what happens in the future. It is funny how just a little bit of doubt can make a person have mixed feelings about someone that they claim to love. Christie can actually relate her story to specific events in her personal life. Christie’s husband left her for another woman, and like Sergeant Trotter she went missing and in the process she took on the identity of another person.
Within the short story "The Painted Door" Ann shows that she experiences feelings of depression, and isolation. Ann's negative mood is apparent through the story and can be seen at any time during the story. Ann's husband is named John and through the story she says many sarcastic and condescending comments, "plenty of wood to keep me warm - what more could a women ask for" (Ross 288). It is clear that Ann is unhappy with John and not satisfied with him. She does not want John to go to his father's house to check on him because she does not want to be left alone in the house when there is a snowstorm is taking place outside.
Everyone gets lonely now and then for reason maybe even unknown to ourselves. In the story "Of Mice and Men" by John Steinbeck, 3 characters face being lonesome throughout the book. Candy, Crooks and Curley's Wife are the ones facing this problem. Candy feels like he's not useful and he's a burden to other and Crooks says he's being discriminated against for be black. Whereas Curley's wife feels lonely because she IS alone with nothing to but sit in her house and has no one to talk to and gains sympathy based off that.
The poem “Witches’ Winter” and the book “The Crucible” illustrate the life in the Old England. In stanza five, the poem showed how the cold and wintry life which the main character Abigail William was suffering. She was tired and abhorred the world she was born into, she had to constrain herself from happiness and joy. Once she tasted the joy of the forbiddance, it only increased her hatred to the cold world: “I taste dried blood on my lips. Better not to have tasted anything, not to have lived through the first winter when Reverend and my father broke chunks of ice into my Christening bowl.” This strongly indicated Abigail’s loathing, and the reason of her revolt against the old restrained law as showed in the book.
Who is the woman behind the yellow wallpaper? A woman who had depression, anxiety and delusions of herself. You try staying in a room with completely nothing to do for hours and hours a day at a time. It’s exactly what the woman behind the yellow wallpaper did. Her husband John made her depression worsen.