Nick goes to the dinner party expecting a pleasurable experience but his awkward visit with the Buchanans, Nick goes home to West Egg. Nicks second visit was to the Buchanans apartment in New York, Tom forces both Myrtle and Nick to accompany him to the city. They go to the apartment where Tom is having the affair. They have a harsh, rough party with Myrtle's sister, Catherine, and a horrible couple named McKee. Everyone, including Nick becomes extremely drunk, shortly after Tom gives her a puppy as a gift; Myrtle begins chanting Daisy's name to irritate Tom.
Salamanca (Sal for short) is horrified when she sees the small, cookie-cutter houses pressed up against each other and realizes how different this place is from their the farm, with its trees, swimming hole, wide-open spaces, cows, and chickens. Her alarm increases when she sees Margaret Cadaver, a friend of her father's who helped him find a job in Euclid. Sal begins to panic as her father urges her out of the car and into Margaret's house. In her consternation, she scans the houses around her and spots a small face in an upstairs window. The face, Sal explains, belongs to Phoebe Winterbottom, who becomes Sal's friend in Euclid.
Jasmine Robinson Kaplan University Unit 7 assignment CJ333 “THE GIRL IN THE CLOSET” A case that I’ve found is about a “girl in the closet”. This story is very sad and very emotional. It all started when she was an eight year old girl that weighed 25.6 pounds. She was being abused by her biological mother and her step farther. She also had six other brother and sisters but, they never got to know her because she was always called the “girl in the closet”.
More on through the play we are given the impression, from the Maid's statement, that Bernarda's husband, that past away, was a sleezy man, 'Rot you! You won't be lifting up my skirts again behind your stable door!' But then suddenly when Bernarda comes in she is frightened so starts wailing, as though she is mourning for him. Showing us concept that Bernarda is in control, 'I've never let anyone tell me what's what. Sit down,' talking to the girl offensively.
We soon find that Dora is a lonely, bitter woman who, instead of mailing the letters she was paid to write, scoffs at them, tears them up and throws them away. Dora finds the letter Josqué mother wrote to his father particularly appalling, declaring Josqué's father a drunk who probably abused and abandoned them, something she can relate to being that her father was a nuisance to her, and stuffs the letter in her drawer with the others. Dora feels little to no remorse for not delivering the letters. Her main concern is herself. Josqué and his mother return to Dora to write another letter to his father, this time in a slightly more endearing tone than the previous letter.
Book One: Fear The story begins with the Thomas family of four, who all wake up one morning in their little one-room apartment only to discover a huge rat running around the room. Bigger is eventually able to kill the rat with a skillet. This shows the kind of life that Bigger, and the blacks of that time as a whole, were born into. They were born and bred in horrible conditions whereby their lives were characterized by harsh discrimination and racial segregation. These conditions that he was faced with led Bigger to believe that he should not aspire to great things because of the limited opportunities, hopelessness and racial discrimination faced by the Blacks.
They have big houses and fancy cars. Not all of this upper class worked hard for this success. Daisy came from a wealthy family and in turn married a rich man, Tom. They have a daughter that is basically just for show and a marriage that is just for reputation. This is made clear by the fact that Tom is having an affair and Daisy barely pays any mind to her daughter.
He doesn’t wan to see the vacuum working.] And the woolen mice, and begin to howl [Woolen mice: Large dust balls. When the vacuum works it makes this loud noise like howling] Because there is old filth everywhere [The place is consumed with dirt] She used to crawl in the corner and under the stairs [Crawl: walking on hands, knees and toes In other words, she cleaned everything!] I know now how life is cheap as dirt [Is a simile for: life has no meaning now he lost his wife] And still the hungry, angry heart [Hungry cause he miss and long for her, and he’s angry at the loss. When you loose something often you are angry] Hangs on and howls, biting at air [His heart howling and biting, is a metaphor.
In The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, jay Gatsby has come to the conclusion that money can get him anything he wants. To Gatsby, when it comes down to his love for Daisy Buchanan he does anything to gain riches so she will love him. Gatsby’s main goal in life is to have Daisy, but he doesn’t realize that she doesn’t feel the same way, and that he can’t just “buy” her. Gatsby’s attitude changes throughout the book, at first he acts like a rich man with nothing to spend his money on, but when there is a chance he could get Daisy back he changes drastically. Overall Daisy Buchanan is what motivates Jay Gatsby’s actions and causes mayhem in his life.
So the true causes of evil are her father trapping her and keeping her away from people and men so long that she literally ends up crazy. Her father was apparently a cruel old man who never wanted his daughter to find true love and move away from him. “None of the young men were quite good enough for Miss Emily and such.” (48) “So when she got to be thirty and was still single, we were not pleased exactly, but vindicated; even with insanity in the family she wouldn't have turned down all of her chances if they had really materialized.” (49, 50) These two quotes show that her father was a real evil man who never saw any man well enough for his daughter and by the time she was thirty she was still single and really did not have a clue what she had been through and that she