She prefers to spend more time with herself than with her family because of this she has a weak relationship with her parents. The story discusses how she has two sides: one for home and one for not being home. Her abduction was solely due to her fault for her appearance that she presented in public, to the relationship that she had with her family and lastly her naiveness. The antagonist Arnold Friend somehow knew about Connie. He saw a great opportunity the moment he set his eyes on her.
He doesn’t understand Edna’s true feelings and emotions and really doesn’t make any effort to try. Because of this it can be seen how Edna is dissatisfied with her husband. This is apparent in the first scene when Leonce calls her to come to bed and she refuses him. This is her first act of defiance that eventually leads to more. For example, Edna speaks of her promiscuity to Robert and says “I suppose this is what you would call unwomanly; but I have got into the habit of expressing myself.
She feels uncomfortable around people she does not know. Instead of attending event more often and trying to get over her shyness, she stopped attending events because it something she can not change. This is an example of learned helplessness. There were thing that she could have done to try and get over her shyness, but she chose to give in to it. Expert interview: She believes is shyness is her major problem in life then she is lucky.
Curley’s wife is definitely not evil. Being lonely, not respected and carrying around an unfulfilled dream takes a toll on her life. Being lonely can often have a positive and negative effect on a person’s life. Although Curley’s wife sometimes may corrupt a situation, she is not evil. Curley’s wife explained to Lennie about being lonely and how difficult it is on her.
Her parents throughout the short story and the film did not have such a great relationship with her. They favored her younger sister over her because she was very calm and laid back. In the short story and the film Connie is an illusion to the everyday teenager in the United States who is low on their self esteem. Through characterization both the film and short story put specific details to identify what Arnold Friend is really like and who he puts danger in Connie’s
Like when Tara, Kristen and Keesha were looking at the magazines, Keesha didn’t understand why skin and bones were attractive to Kristen. Kessha also didn’t understand why Tara could never walk with her to or from school, Keesha just thought that her friends were weird until their conditions got out of hand and she got worried about them. *Donna’s influence on Tara was surprisingly good. Considering that Donna is more of a “wild child” and Tara is a “goody-good” I think they balance each other out. While Donna was smoking, stealing or having sex Tara was getting “lost in her mind”.
According to our textbook, women typically avoid eye contact as a sign of respect (Giger & Davidhizar, 2008). Before coming to the United States, she typically was not a “touchy” person. Since being here, she had acclimated to touch and now accepts it without difficulty and stated that she frequently uses touch when caring for her patients. Space factors. M.I.’s degree of comfort in regards to space is dependent upon who the person is.
Curley’s wife lived not only through the sexiest society which rejected her but her husband did not love her at all making her become “… a tart… with the eye,”(Steinbeck14). That is the image that the men have of Curley’s wife because they are ignorant and do not understand that all she is searching for is to have someone to talk to. Curley’s wife’s loneliness led her to have a bad image with the men on the ranch but also made her seek for attention in anybody she did not matter who. For example she would talk to Candy, and old lifeless man, Crooks who is a Negro that is physically disabled, and Lennie who is a huge man that is mentally retarded. She became mean too since she was lonely and the men rejected her.
All they had to do was look right in front of them or ask. Both saw the glass half-empty. Rather than seeing new neighbors as a possibility for Cathy to make friends, Marion saw them as an invasion of privacy. Instead of seeing them in a positive light, she sees them as a nuisance. Cathy saw her mother as someone who views the world in a negative way and chose to distance herself from her.
She then goes onto talking about herself and how she ‘coulda made something’ of herself and that she only married Curley on the rebound. This then starts to make the reader feel sorry for her and rethink their opinion of her. She then continues to say ‘I don’t like Curley, he aint a nice fella’ which creates even more empathy toward her from the reader. This may be because she hasn’t achieved her dream and is living as part of someone else’s- on the rebound. Consequently her death, towards the end of the novel, creates a totally different image of her by the