She suffers with anorexia but still cooks for her family, despite the fact that she is never able to eat more than a few mouthfuls” (pg. 141).She does this in order to make her mother angry and uses it as a “fighting tool” a way to get back at her mother as Dolly does not like Rose being skinny and pale “as it makes her sick”. Rose is a typical battler and audiences feel for her, because she suffers or rather battles with many difficulties in life, They appreciate her because of her fighting spirit as she had never given up despite what the problem and desire for her to overcome her hardships. This is a common representation of an Aussie
She wanted to live a more lavish lifestyle, but later she will find that the life she has is much better than the life that she will obtain later in life. Although Mathilde Loisel didn’t have a harsh life, she suffered greatly. She longed to live the life in which she thought she deserved because of her beauty. She lived in an apartment with her husband that was plain and not very desirable to live in, well in her standards. She will daydream about the life she should have had and not want she has.
Violence, alcoholics, theft, and threatening people also surround her. Carolina is a strong woman and she knows how to distance herself from all of the bad things in life and to keep her children away from it also. “She hates me. She says that the handsome men and distinguished men prefer me and that I make more money than she does.” (De Jesus, p. 7) Carolina is talking about the jealousy and the hatred coming from the favela women. She puts up with this day-to-day and seems not to get mad that often.
In some sense they are likeable and throughout the story O’Connor makes them funny. I think they are realistic because they portray real-life people. The grandmother is very caring for her family (her sole reason for not wanting to go to Florida in the first place because she heard about “The Misfits” escape from prison). She also was the first to flag down the [misfit and his gang] approaching car after the accident. She seems very religious which was common for older women back in those days (assuming this story took place in the 50’s) and refers to God several times in her final dealing with “The Misfit”.
Mother describes how Dee would read to her and Maggie “without pity; forcing words, lies, other folks' habits, whole lives upon us two, sitting trapped and ignorant underneath her voice” (104). The mother uses the words without pity, forcing, and trapped to show that she and Maggie had no choice but to listen to Dee. The mother goes on to say that Dee would “shove us away at just the moment, like dimwits, we seemed about to understand” (Walker 104). Dee was not trying to educate or even attempt to help her mother and Maggie understand what was being read. Dee only wanted to lord over them her superior intelligence and education, therefore boosting her own ego.
Knowledge is not always power because the more you know does not necessarily mean you understand what you have learned. In the short story “Everyday Use”, education seemed to make a rift in the relationship not only between the mother and the daughter, but also between the sisters. Dee was one to always try and outsmart her family members always seeking answers knowing no one knew. It was mama who eventually got the community together to help send Dee to school so her daughter would be happy and satisfied. The values of heritage seem to have been lost with the gain of knowledge when Dee has gone to college.
Ruth and Mama try to calm her down and tell her not say such things, but Beneatha still talks about the silly idea of God. And Mama "absorbs this speech, studies her daughter and slaps her powerfully across the face" (51). Mama slaps Beneatha to straighten and mature her from back talking to her and Ruth and talking about the idea of no God. Slapping Beneatha creates a message to her about maturing and not back talking elders. These examples show the development of the Younger family would be impossible without Mama
In this quote, Pearl symbolizes that even with a horrid crime committed, that good can come out of it. The way the village treats Pearl is as if she was a Cubs fan in Busch Stadium. Kids made fun or her and bullied her. She was as if her being born was a law broken in itself. "The child could not be made amenable to rules.
The Women's Rights movement, also known as "Women's Libbers," told women not to waste their time taking care of their homes and families, and they were too smart for that. They proclaimed that women had a "choice" not to be housewives now thanks to them. They said women could be anything they wanted to be, and they would find fulfillment in jobs outside of the home. Many women seemed to want to have jobs outside of the home, leaving their children, even very young babies, in day care centers. Older children were also in day care or on their own.
Curley’s wife tried talking to Lennie but he didn’t want to talk to her because George told him not to. However Lennie is vulnerable so she found a way to talk to him she gives him some advice saying ‘don't feel bad because the pup was just a mutt, and mutts are plenty in the world.’ Moreover, she trusted Lennie, by telling him that she could have been a famous movie star, but the world conspired against her and that's why she's ended in a barn. Lennie also tells her secret about what happened in weed. Lennie has an obsession of petting soft things, he saw a little girl with a soft dress and he started touching it and the girl screamed for help because she thought Lennie was going to attack her. On the other hand Lennie does something very stupid when in the barn with Curley’s wife.