In this instance, John’s social standing as a husband and a doctor conspire against the narrator’s enunciation of her illness. A metaphor is offered that serves as a reverberation of the author’s paradigm. Elaborating on the woman’s vision, “she is ... always creeping, and most women do not creep by daylight” (Gilman 10). In its generality, the role of the married woman is obstructed by the public eye. The need to obey societal normality hinders a couple from venturing astray from the fray and furthermore, seeking independence.
Clayton Poole, who is established as the clumsy single male who can’t even care for himself, becomes the carer for Carla’s babies as she resumes her career. As time progresses, Sandy persists that Clayton will need to get married if he wants to keep the babies. “You’re not married Clayton…they’re not going to let a bachelor raise three little girls.” “They’ll put them with married couples”. Whilst Clayton is willing to learn how to care for the babies the way a mother would, he is still challenged by the court, a case which came about due to the dismay and the gossiping of the townspeople. As time progresses, Clayton is seen dressed in more pink and soft colours to accentuate his feminine sort of parenting.
In their younger years, they were told they would never fit in due to the color of their skin. In Helga's case because she was bi-racial she was always told. "If you couldn't prove your ancestry and connections, you were tolerated, but you didn't 'belong'." (Q.43). Even when Helga tries to get help from Uncle Peter she is rejected by his wife, Mrs. Nilssen, who tells her directly "Well, he isn't exactly your uncle, is he?
He loses himself in his emotions, but he struggles to control himself while “evolving the right way” (125) in order to survive. Gene feels guilty for losing himself, as a child would, when throwing a temper-tantrum. He does not mean to hurt people, especially the ones he cares for, he just does not know any better. Gene’s instincts kick in when he feels threatened, and he always regrets when they do. After Gene kicked Leper’s chair he says to Mrs. Lepellier, “I’m terribly-it was a mistake…he said something crazy.
Although the relationship can certainly be defined as abnormal, it can by no means be labeled a bond. Such a connotation would imply that the relationship encourages closeness. This assumption would be starkly incorrect. The connection formed is a situational one, not an intimate one. To makes matters worse, Darl already struggles to connect with his siblings intimately – due to the incompatibility of his mind with theirs – which defies the
Pride in an accomplishment is the result of a completely sane endeavor. To lose ones mind in the process of ones ambition is the loss of any control or restraint. Victor Frankenstein felt this lack of restraint when crafting his creature; it was a block that shielded his psyche from true understanding of what he was doing. Victor failed in his ambitions because he was engrossed in the completion of his experiment. In his fervor, he failed to realize the outcome of his actions and did not immediately understand his own reaction to what he had done.
John’s biggest downfall in this story is the fact that he is stuck with the unfortunate task of being not only his wife’s lover, but also her doctor. Instead of being a concerned husband and being there for his wife mentally, he took a more clinical attitude to the situation and there for our narrator was left to her own devises. Also John only knows the “pattern” of his wife and does not see the trapped woman with in. John truly care for his wife and is trying everything in his power to help and cure her. Unfortunately the only way he knows how to help her it by treating her as a medical patient or as an object and not as a person who needed love, not just care.
It was not really a war story at all, it was more of a love story as described by O’Brien. When no reply came, he lashed out. O’Brien described this as an act of rationalized anger. He was in a place where emotions were extremely hard to properly explain. Kiley was exposed to an unspeakable event at such a young age and does the only thing his immature mind could muster up.
After he realizes that his wife cannot have children, the craving for her is reduced a great example is quote next, “My mind was racing. I was bombarded with selfish and acquisitive thoughts, seething with scorn for Marie – she was the one, she was defective, not me—bursting to exercise my god given right to child and heir. It’s true, it really is you never want something so much as when somebody tells you can’t have it”(84). This realization fires the narrator’s drive to father a child. The urge of producing offspring elevates the moment he realizes the female he is with won’t satisfy him.
His first downfall was not being able to have a child. He tried his hardest to be able to do so yet luck wasn’t on his side. As any man can say, being remembered as the guy who can’t get his own wife pregnant isn’t a good way to leave this earth. Regardless to the sorrow I feel towards him, I still believe he deserved worse. Despite him being the big disgrace of the town the years which he made girls suffer wasn’t enough.