Yet, like nearly every other child that experiences this, she does not entirely understand what independence entails. Connie’s actions demonstrate this observation. As the exposition unfolds, it becomes obvious that she feels more comfortable with her friends than she does at home. She feels happiest when she can enjoy the freedoms which adults are permitted, and her parents stand in the way of those liberties. All these feelings become visible to readers when Connie’s attitude changes upon being freed at the mall with her friends.
Among the similarities between Calixta and Mrs. Mallard are the conditions of their marriages around the time of the stories: Calixta to Bobinot and Mrs. Mallard with Brently Mallard. From the text given in both short stories and the subtext in between the lines, Calixta and Mrs. Mallard were not satisfied with their marriages. The latter, Mrs. Mallard, did not have a fondness for her husband and this was evident in her quick realization that she was finally free, free to live out the rest of her days how she wanted. Despite her heart condition, the story mentioned that Mrs. Mallard breathed that she would get to live a long life ahead of herself. It would be a life that was hers and hers alone.
This shows that although Daisy loved him she chose her family over him even though she wasn’t very happy with the decision. For many people money is an important aspect of life. Daisy found money and social status very important in order to keep her somewhat ‘happy’ by getting anything she wanted. Tom Buchanan gave Daisy lots of material things in order to do this. For example of page 74, it quotes that Daisy receives ‘a string on pearls’ the day before her wedding to Tom but also on the same say she also get a letter from her former lover Gatsby, gets drunk after reading it and has a moment where she hesitates about marrying Tom but after she sobers up she ‘squeezed it up in a wet ball……And walked out of the room, the pearls around her neck and the incident was over’ as it also quotes on pages 74 and 75.
She told Mrs. Linde of her secret because maybe she realized that one day all of her secrets were going to be discovered. Throughout the play one can notice that Nora and Mrs. Linde are a character foil. Nora has a nice life with her husband and kids which Mrs. Linde doesn’t and wishes that could have a family like that. Mrs. Linde married for money to help out her family and then later her husband died. Nora married for love and now all the secrets that she has are haunting her and her marriage.
Or—because she was of the toddling age-- simply wandered of?. These were the questions running foremost in the Valmonde’s minds. But soon Madame Valmonde dismiss any unsavory notion except that “ Desiree had been sent to her by a beneficent Providence to be the child of her affection” (Chopin 1) Most expeditiously, Desiree was ensconced in the family and raised to be a proud Valmonde. It seems that her obscure origin has almost been buried beneath the years. Eighteen years later, as if by fate, Desiree stands in the shadow of the pillar where her life had forever changed, it changed again.
She follows it because she is now programmed to believe this is the way of life and in turn she has become extremely tentative. She was raised to believe that you needed a husband to take care of you, although she personally believed she would do fine without a husband. She struggles with this because as I stated earlier, she did not want to be the average woman that relied on a man for her every need, but as time passed she became exactly that. Even though she was unhappy with her being, she wanted her daughters to follow in her footsteps and find a supportive husband versus going out and being themselves. She was satisfied with never wanting for anything financially, so much so she allowed this to distract her from the fact that she was emotionally unfulfilled in every aspect of her life.
When Gatsby returned home, he did whatever he could to win Daisy's heart back and earned money and riches. Nick, Gatsby's neighbor, did the favor of reuniting him with Daisy but after all the time they spent together at his mansion, he still wanted more from her. He expected her to tell Tom that she has never loved him, and leave him, but she couldn't. She loved Tom and she'd be lying if she said she didn't. Daisy couldn't give the love that Gatsby expected from her.
Janie’s Undying Quest for Love All human hearts, at their core, desire love. What this love comes to mean can differ from person to person. How one is brought up can greatly influence their view on what true love is and, for some, leave them without happiness. In Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God, Janie finds true love only when she lets go of what society is telling her to do. Although her Grandmother taught her that love is settling with a wealthy man, Janie does not give up on her vision of love.
Only when he went away, and she was desperate for order did she consider marrying Tom, who was “worthy” as he had the proper background, wealth, and the approval of her parents. Daisy is portrayed as a relatively weak-willed women, who “wanted her life shaped now; immediately- and the decision must be made by some force- of love, of money, of unquestionable practicality”. (151) It could be said that while Daisy was in love with both Tom and Gatsby, her main affections lie with money, ease, and material luxury and she would be with the man who could offer all those things. In a world where men are the dominant
Yet, they bring meaning and symbolism to the title of the story. When Nora tells her husband that she went out to buy toys for her children, it shows that she is a child who treats her children like dolls. When she tells Torvold that she had bought toys for them at a cheap price, it becomes more evident that in the past she didn’t understand the value of money, like a child and wants to show her husband that she has taken a step to improve herself. In the second act, Nora realizes that society is encouraging children to see their mothers as role models. Thus, she realizes that if her children would follow her behavior, they would never be more mature than they are now.