In Didion’s essay she uses gloomy, ominous imagery to portray the negative outcomes that occur due to the Santa Ana winds and their mechanistic control on human behavior. “The Indians would throw themselves into the sea when the bad wind blew.” “The Pacific turned ominously glossy.” These images depict a very gloomy mood, the winds had such a
In it the idea of a traditional ghost story is suggested which shows us forewarning for the rest of the novel. A ghost story relies on atmosphere, often shown through weather and the gothic genre. The weather is a huge signal throughout the novel, which is used as a signal to when terrible things are about to happen. For example, the nine lives causeway is described as ‘submerged and untraceable’, this suggests that Eel Marsh house is miserable and that everything is hidden. From this the reader can see that Susan Hill has explored the theme by creating it as a forewarning through the weather and setting.
In Faulkner’s story, Emily is completely isolated within her home. The house plays a big role because the town rarely sees her because she refuses to leave her home. She feels safe within those walls and believes her world inside that home was reality. Emily had a sense of security in her home and one can also relate to this feeling. Faulkner was trying to depict a person who was completely out of touch with reality and did not want to face it.
Rochester. Even though gothic elements would not stand our right away by reading this ending, I definitely want to show how I used them. One of the gothic elements I have used is the women in distress. Jane seemed to be lonely when Edward died and even terrified as of what could happen next in her life. She knew that her children will soon leave and have their time in life and spend less and less time with her and that she would just simply stay inside and be alone.
A repressed women with a desire to be free and happy. The relation between when the woman in the wallpaper and the narrator when the woman is behind bars symbolizes the narrator and how she is trapped in this tiny room with a husband who controls her every word and actions. He undermines her in almost every way. For example the narrator says on page 590 “I am afraid, but i don't care- there is something strange about that house-I can feel it, I even said so to John one moonlight evening, but he said what i felt was a drought, and shut the window.” This shows how john undermines her fears as just a simple shiver from the window being open when she is trying to explain how she doesn't like the place because shes
Because of this she is slowly rotting away. The more she struggles by herself with the rape, the less she is able to speak. Melinda is no longer positive and fun girl. She has changed to a pessimistic, self-loathing girl. “My closet is a good thing, a quiet place that helps me hold these thoughts inside my head where no one can hear them” (51) Melinda’s is relying on her closet and is keeping everything in her head.
She probably felt smothered by his bleak nature and with the fact that the farmhouse was too isolated for anyone to want to visit, Mrs. Wright was left alone. Mr. Wright was found slumped in his bed, a rope slipped around his neck and wrung; his breath smothered from his
Though showing to much emotion is almost always looked down upon not being able to express any emotion can have serous negative effects on ones wellbeing. Like in the story The Yellow Wallpaper the narrator is forced to stay at her husbands summer home and spend time alone in attempt help cure her form her state of depression. While there she is not aloud to write or do any actives this slowly starts to have a negative effect on her mental health. She becomes obsessed with the idea that someone is behind the yellow wallpaper that is in her jail she calls her room. This continues after multiple attempts to tell her husband that she is uncomfortable with the yellow wallpaper.
Curley’s wife explained to Lennie about being lonely and how difficult it is on her. “’I get lonely… You can talk to people, but I talk to nobody but Curley. Else he gets mad’” [Steinbeck 78]. Curley’s wife never has anyone to talk to; when she gets the chance she often ruins the mood. She did not want Lennie to hurt her, but Lennie is very unpredictable.
A Thief: Erin McGraw In A Thief by Erin McGraw, the protagonist Evelyn suffers from a complete absence of her Ego mediating between the superego and the ID. In the beginning of the story the superego dominates in her actions suppressing her from any sort of human interaction and connection. Her ID strains against it and eventually releases itself through stealing. Her conscience tells her that the rules of society are to follow what she has been brought up with. Not knowing her past we can assume that she was taught to be prompt, clean, and polite.