He is showing how he just wants to be left alone sometimes. Holden is showing signs of his post traumatic stress disorder from when he thinks of Jane. He is also getting very jealous of Stradlater and Jane together. Patient: Holden Caulfield Date: 3/2/54 Date of Birth: 10/14/37 Session: four – chapters 6 and 7 “’You don’t do one goddam thing that you’re supposed to. I mean it.
His hopes of marriage and building a loving new home were crushed after Lydia’s tragic betrayal, when Romulus’s vulnerability to his inner demons was revealed. Raimond describes his father’s condition as “personal disintegration” by which Romulus’s moral world collapsed in the face of what he saw as an incomprehensible situation. He was simply unable to believe that Lydia could present such dishonesty. During his stay in hospital and throughout his continuing illness at Frogmore, the superstitions and hallucinations of evil spirits ruled his life for a time. This life-altering episode aggravated his mental disorder and left him, “unable to whistle or sing with his former innocence and delight in life”.
While in my office Sally explained, she cannot accept the fact that a child dies before a parent and that it is not the normal way of life. This in my opinion is denial, because according to Kubler- Ross’s Five Stages of Death and Dying when someone is in denial life makes no sense and the world is meaningless and overwhelming. Mike stated that he is going crazy because all he hears from Sally is her telling God to take her and bring her son back instead. This is the third item on the list which is bargaining. When someone is bargaining, the person will make secret pacts with God without regard to being religious.
This novel also asks the question, what does it mean to be different from everyone else? This comes out in Peter as he is always tormented for being different and also in Josie who almost hates herself for not being real. A final theme in the book is the idea of hiding behind facades and failed relationships, for example the relationship between Josie and her mother is so false but neither one of them is willing to acknowledge they hardly even know each other anymore. In the novel the idea of the media is partly blamed for fuelling the panic. The author in this case is trying to test the idea of blame and the security it brings within her characters in the novel.
Later in the poem, Hughes accuses his wife of abandoning her family. The repetition of “you” in the lines “unravelled your marriage, left your children echoing like tunnels in labyrinth, left your mother a dead-end” emphasises the immensely accusatory tone of the poem. These accusations in The Minotaur show that Hughes puts all blame for their failed marriage onto his wife, and is not taking any of the responsibility. Hughes’s view of Plath is a conflicting perspective to society’s view of the couple’s relationship. How Hughes portrays his conflicting perspective
Proctors decision makes a dramatic turn when Rebecca Nurse Enters the room. It could be said that Rebecca puts Proctor under a lot of pressure by saying that he is lying to the judges and not being truthful to himself or God. She is almost accusing him of being a coward in which Proctor has despised beings of this nature his entire life. Rebecca "(Astonished) why, John!" "Why, it is a lie" Proctor will have felt a lot of pressure on his shoulders in the short amount of time he had to decide his own fate as he had two different sides chirping in his ear.
Overwhelmed by vulnerability, “[Ethan] saw her [Zeena] preparing to go away”. In contemplation of this abandonment, he almost instinctively “was seized with an unreasoning dread of being left alone” (Wharton 70). This fear of lonesomeness filters into every aspect of Ethan's life, altering each area drastically. Furthermore, Ethan, despite his apparent hatred for his wife, relies on her companionship to function. On the oppose side of the marital spectrum, Zeena regularly professes her hypochondria to her husband.
In fact, Baumer faces adversity when he must visit Kemmerich’s mother to inform her of his death. Due to the challenge of telling Kemmerich’s mother the truth, Baumer’s esteem takes a huge hit and continually spirals downwards for the remainder of the story. For example, since Kemmerich has died, Paul must pull himself together and visit his mother to inform her on the tragic news of her son’s death. It is extremely uneasy for Paul to perform this task as he believes it is not fair for Kemmerich to die while he lives. Paul ponders, “[f]our days left now.
Holden lives a very mixed up life. Holden is depressed because he learns that he is a failure after leaving Penecy since he flunked every subject except for English. Sally Hayes depresses Holden as well because he doesn’t understand why she wouldn’t want to run away with him. He says to Sally out of no where, "Look...here's my idea, how would you like to get the hell out of here"" (132; ch. 17).
He explains that while the actual event of his mother's second marriage isn't necessarily the direct cause of Hamlet's madness, "it must be because the news has awakened into activity some slumbering memory, which is so painful that it may not become conscious" (Jones 93). Basically, Hamlet feels as if he has been fighting for his Mother's love all his life, then, when he sees how quickly and without thought she gives it away, he is, in one sense, heartbroken. Of course, all this is on a subconscious level as if to merely prompt hatred and crazed emotions without Hamlet realizing what they come