Tracy is doing well in her school work, but has temper tantrums at home when things do not go her way. Harold was recently laid off from a job he held for over 10 years and is feeling very discouraged. His mother has loaned him money until he can find another job, but he worries about his ability to take care of his family. Shirley returned home from duty three weeks ago. She was initially very happy to see her family, but is having trouble adjusting to being back home.
Matt now has a son, a good wife, and an ordinary life; he still has a good family life without going to university. In contrast with Kate, although she has good education and job, she doesn’t have her own family and in fact, she says, “I had never thought I would really love anyone.” (89) From another perspective, she seems to be the one that is going to have a sad life. Similar with Luke, when he rejects Sally it is due to his responsibility as a caregiver. He is happy with his decision since it is for his family. If Matt chooses to go to university instead and leaves Marie, he will most likely lose his happiness and truly be an emotionless “nerd” and suffers like Kate who does not truly knows the meaning of love.
Leroy and Norma Jean were both eighteen when they got married and had Randy. From what little information we are given from the time before Randy’s death, we can infer that Leroy and Norma Jean were happy together. Not long after Randy’s death, Leroy started driving tractor-trailers for a living, keeping him away from home for several weeks at a time. When Leroy would come home between jobs, Norma Jean would cook all of his favorite meals for him, and they would spend time playing cards and watching TV together. However, after Leroy’s accident, Leroy notices how distant he and Norma Jean have become.
After that summer they never saw each other again until, one day years later Allie came across Noah in the newspaper and went to visit him. She had come to tell him she was engaged to be married, but at her stay at Noah’s she realized she might have made the wrong choice. In a twist of events Noah and Allie are actually in a nursing home, Allie had lost her memory, but before she forgot everything Allie wrote down her whole life with Noah and there
English 105 September 28, 2011 “Great Falls” “Great Falls”, written by Richard Ford, is a short story based off the universal issue of separation and isolation. It is a first person narrative which focuses on the issues Jackie, the main character, undergoes throughout most of his lifetime. Jackie is forced to become an adult in a shorter amount of time than most people have. This is all due to the separation of his parents which causes him to be isolated from them, therefore in life. On the way back to the house from fishing and hunting, Jackie's father asks Jackie if he ever worries about girls and sex.
It begins when the main character, a teacher at the Midwestern University, feels loneliness in his home and always wakes up frightened early in the morning. As every night, since he has nothing to do, he goes to a restaurant. The narrator relates to us the first memories of his childhood to the death of this father. Actually, as a child, he lives with his mother, a strong dark woman, his father, a fisherman, and his sisters in Nova Scotia. He remembers that they live in a big house, by the sea, where everything (especially the kitchen) is in order and clean thanks to his mother apart from his father’s room.
Lastly, the fathers expectations of two characters does not align with the mothers, yet in one piece of literature the mother expected exactly what the father wished. The feeling of not conforming to societal and parental expectations and not being appreciated condemns youth into believing they are worthless and negatively affects their outlook on life. “Brother Dear” and “A Cap for Steve” both deal with the raw issue of parents not accepting children’s ambitions in life. The two main characters have different goals yet both goals resembled the life that they wish to live at that time. Greg, from the short story “Brother Dear,” does not desire to attend university and become a man of business yet that is all his father wants for him.
Derpy Mcderperson Mrs. ds British Literature 12 September 2010 Addiction’s toll on the family In the book Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt, Frank’s family is burdened by addiction from both his mother and his father. Although his mother’s addiction is arguably brought about by the effects of his father’s, both still take a heavy toll on the family. The problems are seen through the eyes of Frank McCourt, the oldest son in the family and witness to the many problems that it holds over the years. While the McCourts are in America, Malachy’s alcoholism starts causing problems for the Irish-American family. He would constantly spend all of the money that was put aside for food and the cost of living on alcohol.
Araceli was a maid for Scott and Maureen Torres-Thompson. After Scott and Maureen had a fight they both left the house leaving Araceli with their two boys. Araceli spent time looking for someone she could give the boys to until their parents returned. Araceli stated, “Of all these people, old man Torres was the only adult still alive and likely to live in a place reachable from Paso Linda Bonita” (147). Being gone for a few days the parents left Araceli with no other choice than to go and find the children’s grandfather.
His life will be empty—their dream died when Lennie died. George will become the same as any other migrant ranch-hand—lonely and nomadic, just drifting from ranch to ranch, from job to job. 2. Curley's wife made Lennie curious. Lennie didn't know much about women but Curley's wife wanted to talk to him.