She married for love, and the love turned to dust. She had bonny children, yet she felt they had been thrust upon her, and she could not love them.” Even though she has everything she needs, a stable family and enough money to support her needs, she still wants more. She says that she is “very unlucky” because she “married an unlucky husband”. Instead of taking the responsibility upon herself that she is unlucky and does not have everything she wants, she blames others for her lack of happiness. In the end she turns out to be the luckiest character in the story because with Paul’s luck she gains all of the money he won.
Women were to marry, and no matter how miserable they were treated, they were to please their husbands. There was also a tendency for women to stay in meaningless marriages because divorce was not supported by social standards. In the case of Maggie and Brick, he reminds her they are simply living together and married only by name. She seems to be in constant torture because she cannot experience intimacy (be it physical or emotional) with the man in which she has vowed the rest of her life to. It is obvious Brick does not appreciate the devotion of Maggie.
She reveals throughout the course of the story that she is unhappy in her marriage because her husband seems to care little for her, and is really more interested in talking about himself than anything else. Further, she laments her lost potential; she details twice that she could’ve been a Hollywood movie star, though the chance was taken from her by her mother, who worried she was too young. But Curley’s wife has another side that is petty,
Her first contribution to the play is her paying the delivery body. Nora insists he ‘keeps the change’; this is not a significant amount of money but, Nora’s casual domineer is indicative of her fiscal irresponsibility (her development portrays otherwise). Moreover, this mundane occurrence is the first act on stage and this would highlight to the audience Nora’s recklessness. Furthermore, it is not just Nora’s actions with money that conveys her ingenuousness. Nora has been treated like a child all her life by her father and by her husband.
Plot, Cast, Screenplay, Flaws, Structure and Acting are the areas where I’ll be reviewing this movie. Two sisters, one a young beauty who chooses passion over logic, the other a law student who’s fixed moral keeps her from following her desires, are taken from their luxurious home when their father suddenly passes away. Out of money and out of options, the women move into their Great Aunt Aurelia's house in East LA, where they find themselves thrown into a world that, despite their heritage, seems completely foreign. Over time, they discover the beauty of the culture they once fought so desperately to hide. And in the process they find the one thing that had eluded them: love.
In the process of illustrating these different women, the film tries not to express one lifestyle being better than another lifestyle. Some of the women are perfectly content to be single and childless and other women are happy to have families. The character Emily Leighton demonstrates qualities of the "ideal" loving mother and wife. However, where some films would make her character seem weak or submissive, the film portrays Emily Leighton as a strong woman, who was willing to defy her husband and make a better life for her daughters. In one scene, her husband accuses her of being a bad mother and Mrs. Leighton responds by saying, "They are the only reason I am here."
In the poem “Medusa” gender conflict through control is also illustrated when she says: “a suspicion, a doubt, a jealousy”. This depicts that she feels ownership over her husband and wants him to “be terrified” if he does not obey her commands. However, in “Les Grands Seigneurs” the narrator conveys that after she was “wedded, bedded … a toy, a plaything … wife” she is nostalgic for the first three stanzas to how men were towards her before she was married as she is now powerless. We can depict that there was less gender conflict before she was married. Moreover, in “Medusa” powerlessness is also portrayed when she rhetorically questions herself “Wasn’t I beautiful?
Unfortunately, not all of Sofi’s daughters try to break away from this society. Fe, Sofi’s second daughter, does not decolonize herself from the three roles of hetero-patriarchal society nor its oppression. She struggles to conform to this society, and its goals of prosperity and success. Fe, at one point, has a steady job, a picture-perfect boyfriend, and impeccable friends, which maintained her image as the perfect American girl. When her boyfriend cancels their engagement, he shatter Fe’s dreams and causes her to become mentally unstable for some time; nevertheless, Fe tries again.
Ana is a young woman who is at the beginning of experiencing life. She has strong family values, wants a good future… and is a little overweight. Her mom Carmen, throughout the movie, tells her to lose weight because if she did, she would look good. Ana does not listen to her mom, she loves the way she is, and this is a myth she proved wrong. Her mom continues to remind her how overweight she is and says things like “Look at you!
During adolescence, however, girls often take their anger out on their mothers. And in turn, the mothers feel ill-equiped to manage their daughters’ anger. The movie Mothers and Daughters (Bessai 2008) reflects these themes. This story outlines the lives of three Mother-Daughter pairs. Brenda is the typical “invisible woman” who is unexpectedly discarded by her husband following a life of sacrifice.