Her intentions may be pure as she wants the best for Phoebe, but it doesn’t deny the fact that she’s also doing that for her own self preservation. Secrets that are kept for one’s own, selfish intention cause pain to other, no matter who they are. A different time secrets caused pain to others was when David comes back after days of being away with a pregnant girl named Rosemary. When Paul’s trying to convince his mother to let him stay home from school he describes her as talking calmly and with red eyes from crying (276). Norah is obviously hurt that David has come back with a pregnant girl as she assumes that Rosemary’s pregnant with David’s child.
She also experienced a lot of mental abuse from her mom, who seemed to cut her down more than anything. When it came to her relationship with Melchior, she just seemed to go with the flow. She kind of got sucked into doing things that she, possibly, may have not done if she would have had a closer, more open relationship with her mom. Wendla longs to feel loved and at one point, even confuses the physical abuse that one of her friends experiences at home as real love and begs Melchior to hit her. She was a very lost child that needed more attention on the home front.
If a woman told a man that they love him they were considered as whores, and their life would be completely destroyed. Elizabeth was in love with Mr. Darcy but she couldn’t tell him about her feelings. Being enclosed by the rules of society Elizabeth was considered as a normal Girl from a Normal family, who didn’t have to do hard work to survive, and do labor to feed her family. Elizabeth’s father was not too wealthy but he had recourses to keep his family fed. Elizabeth is a proud girl of her own.
When the story went back and told how her and her husband met and came to marry it told an awful lot about who Edna was. They were not totally in love and the author stated, “The violent opposition of her father and sister Margaret to Edna marrying a Catholic” (Chopin. 1899) played a part in them getting married. Edna enjoyed the love Leonce showered upon her, but married out of spite in a sense. Edna was described as a “woman not given to confidences.” (Chopin, 1899) This was not an uncommon emotion nor were many of the other feelings she expressed all over the book.
This shows she has little impact in the family, and could be the result of her nervous nature. The way in which Austen immediately describes other members of the family in greater depth to that of Anne's character also shows how she is at the start inferior in comparison to the rest off her family. It seems that her lack of superiority in the family has resulted in her eldest sister being the favourite with her father, and her youngest being married. Shes seems at the beginning of the novel that she was once easily influenced, and this downfall resulted in her being persuaded by Lady Russell to refuse Captain Wentworth's marriage proposal. However with the Elliot's family move to Bath, Anne is somewhat forced to emerge from her sheltered shell, and starts to flourish as a character.
Lefroy did not want to be at his aunt’s home in the first place and so he was bitter to the residents of that area from the time he arrived. He had an attitude about him that suggested he was better than those who lived there. Austen disfavored him because at their first encounter he belittled her and her work. Throughout their time spent together, Austen and Lefroy find themselves falling in love. They are both passionate, as shown in his choice of novels he suggests Austen to read, and her for utter love of the literature.
Rejecting a man whom a woman did not love was rebellious and unheard of during this time. Elizabeth Bennet did not fit the generalization of the women living in a patriarchal society whose sole purpose in life was finding a suitable candidate for marriage. Elizabeth Bennet is her father’s favorite child. When Elizabeth is departing for Kent her father entreats “Until you or your sister Jane returns…” Mr. Bennet has a high regard for his daughter’s intelligence and wit. In sharp contrast Mrs. Bennet has little value for these qualities “Elizabeth was the least dear to her of all her children” (Austen).
King Lear says to his daughters ‘if it be you that stirs these daughters’ hearts against their father’ which shows how he feels betrayed: a feeling he may have not felt if he had not been so foolish to dismiss Cordelia for her honesty. Cordelia, however, plays a smaller role in the first few Acts of the play as she is disowned by her father and is not visited. Gonerill and Regan are both cruel father and do not have the same loyalty we get the impression as Cordelia does. Cordelia says at the beginning of the play ‘what shall Cordelia speak, love and be silent’ which shows that she loves her father however doesn’t feel she should lie about how much she loves her father. This truthfulness however lands her in a bad place as she is disowned by her father for not professing her love.
Sal felt guilty and responsible for her mother’s miscarriage. Sal believed her mother lost her baby because she carried her. On many occasions, Sal was the only one that could see Mrs. Winterbloom’s unhappiness in her family, since then she wondered if her mother was also unhappy in her life like Mrs. Winterbottom. She blamed herself for not paying attention to her mother’s feelings. The second main effect of abandonment that Sal experienced was confusion.
She reveals throughout the course of the story that she is unhappy in her marriage because her husband seems to care little for her, and is really more interested in talking about himself than anything else. Further, she laments her lost potential; she details twice that she could’ve been a Hollywood movie star, though the chance was taken from her by her mother, who worried she was too young. But Curley’s wife has another side that is petty,