Penelope has to trick the thirty suitors staying in her house but she never falls in for their trickery. Penny, Everett’s wife is a different story, she has only become interested in one suitor who she has actually decided to marry. While the wedding date is scheduled, Everett has to stop the wedding from happening before it’s too
The very next day, we went to a dinner party where we had to pretend to be a big, happy family. My mother put on her happy face and pretended like nothing had happened the night before. She even came up a with a cover story for her cast. That day was the day I realized how strong our mother was. Even though she was in pain, she went out and acted as if everything was fine.
Nevertheless, she marries Tom and soon gives birth to a daughter. When an accident reveals Tom’s secret affair with a chambermaid, Daisy withdraws into her life of numbing relaxation and leisure. “Despite her appearance, she is a very cold and emotionally numb young woman. Her self-serving nature only serves to reinforce her superficial characteristics” (Willhite). Just when it seems Daisy is destined for a life of tedium and feigned happiness, she runs into Jay Gatsby and falls back into the mindset of the eighteen-year-old Daisy Fay from
She would daydream of fancy dinners, shinning silverware and delicate furniture. Her desire for wealth is so strong that she can’t even visit her wealthy friend Madame Foresteir without being overwhelmed with jealousy. There was only one time where she was truly happy and that is when she had on a dress that her husband purchased and a diamond necklace that she borrowed from her friend, Mrs. Forestier. Her happiness was short-lived when she and her husband had to spend the next 10 years paying for the necklace that she had lost that night. What use to be a very poise and gentle women had “become the women of impoverished households- strong and hard and rough” (Maupassant 42).
When Evyn first saw Eleni, with her red lipstick, black pants, and high heels, she thought Eleni looked nothing like a college professor and a mother. Evyn made the assumption that she went partying every night. That is an example of her being judgemental. After her father, Birdie, reminded Evyn that her new combination lock was 5, 10, 15; she forgot, making her forgetful. An example of Evyn being unintelligent was when her so-called friends, Andrea’s group, calls her Evelyn and doesn’t talk to her unless it’s to ask about updates with Ajax, she doesn’t realize that they’re just using her.
Gatsby always held huge parties on weekends to try and impress Daisy, hoping that she’d remember him years later. However, Gatsby was not always this rich. He had gained all his wealth from doing illegal bootlegging of alcohol. Gatsby also had no potential, since he dropped out of Oxford and started out with no money. He decided to tie money and Daisy together, hoping to impress Daisy that his old poor self had changed into one of her kind.
Every time her uncle and aunts go visits her she always gets sad when they have to leave because of the goodbyes. Although most of the time his flights are delayed, she decides to stay home instead of going along to drop him and leaves, her father tells her that her uncle said he will never forget them. Furthermore, she talks about the day she turned fifteen and how they did not have enough money to celebrate like most girls with a quincenera but instead they have a gathering of 6 people to celebrate. Their budget is tight but her mom still decides to buy what her daughter deserves and nothing lower. She has a fun memory despite the struggle of being poor.
They weren't only the audience, not only looking on; they were acting.” ❏ She is excited about having an almond in her cake which is very minuscule ❏ Towards the end of the story she begins to cry, hinting at herself realizing she is alone ❏ Miss Brill in my opinion is a widow ❏ The story was written in 1920 and it was very rare for a woman to not marry ❏ Perhaps the reason she made such a big deal about everything in the park is to help herself forget about her husband ❏ Perhaps her and husband used to go there every Sunday and that is why she attends by herself ❏ At the end of the story it reads, “She unclasped the necklet quickly; quickly, without looking, laid it inside. But when she put the lid on she thought she heard something crying.” ❏ Perhaps the reason she unclasps it quickly without looking is because it was a necklet that her husband and given to her and that is the reason for the
Elena carries out motherly duties despite the incredibly difficult circumstances of surviving in Altai labour camp. The family had been in the labour camp for months, they were all weak and hungry. It was Lina’s birthday and Lina thought that her mother had forgotten because of their horrific situation. But really Elena had organized a surprise ‘party’ in the bald man’s hut. Even though their situation seemed bleak, Elena felt that she should still carry out simple motherly duties, like celebrating her daughter’s birthday, to make Lina feel more secure.
She loved Jay even after she was married yet she loves Thomas who has cheated on her everywhere they go. Daisy has yet to work a single day in her life but is willing to help out a poor dear in need. On the contrary, Myrtle Wilson cheated on her husband with Daisy’s husband, Thomas Buchannan. She hated being in the small garage, and wants to be a rich woman. Every once in a while she would run off with Tom and live in an apartment.