In the short story “A Wedding-Dress” the main character is a woman named Lena Schwartz. This woman is excited, because she is about to get married to Sam Hilton. The reader discovers that Miss Schwartz is a people pleaser and that she does not take responsibility for her actions. Lena must learn from the mistakes that she is making before she can be truly happy with her life. Miss Schwartz only thinks about making other people happy, because she is afraid of them becoming angry, or leaving.
The red dress depicts a feeling of passion. The little girl is adorned in pink, a color between the red and white, because she is still innocent and pure but age causes her to be infatuated with shiny things such as the woman’s gold and shiny pieces. She is too young to develop a wisdom that has value beyond material possessions. Cornelia and her children were historical Roman figures. She was a widow who lived to train and educate her children and was thought very highly of as a wise noble matron.
So many girls have this fantasy of being Cinderella and having a “fairy tale” life, but what version of Cinderella and what types of fairy tales are these girls looking up to for their idea of an ideal life? In Marcia Lieberman’s essay “Some Day My Prince Will Come,” she opposes the views of another scholar, Alison Laurie, who believes that fairy tales are something that radical feminists would approve of because the stories, “suggest a society in which women are as competent and active as men, at every age and in every class.” Lieberman argues that it is popular fairy tales--the ones that we all know and the ones we read to our children--that actually acculturate the masses of young girls in society, therefore the lesser-known stories cannot
Since the husband supplies money, Norton believes women view shopping as not another responsibility, but as an opportunity for subversion. Retail therapy is a housewife’s favorite pastime. Among other women they socialize freely. Whilet hey also spend time and money striving to duplicate the allusions associated with American culture. The housewife passes these tendencies on to her daughter and the tradition continues.
Charleena decides to step in and help her with the reading and soon they have a very nice bond with each other. So one day when she is very sick Mr. Stan her assistant calls her and Miss. Charleena does not want to talk to him at all and take any offers he has for her, but after a few day Foster tries to persuade her into going back into her Hollywood life and trying her best in what she does and so one day she calls him back and says she is ready to do the job and soon she gets back up and rises in her career because of the positive support Foster gave her and Foster learned how to
A theme that is persistent throughout Monster, is the ‘good’ female in comparison to the ’bad’ female. A good female is one that accepts the roles that are assigned to her, such as being nurturing, and acts them out in everyday life by, for example, getting married and taking care of her children. In the movie, this is what Shelby’s family expected from her and it can be seen in the scene where Shelby meets her aunt in a coffee shop and her aunt tries to persuade her to find a ‘handsome man’; instead of staying with Aileen. A ‘normal’ female is expected to be caring and nurturing and Aileen was shown not to have these characteristics because she killed these men. The scene in which Aileen kills her last victim while he is begging for his life, can be seen as her not having anything sympathy or compassion for him and these are considered to be female characteristics.
She is best known for her 1937 novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God. Zora Neale Hurston will be remembered for all her wondrous work. The marriage between Janie and Tea Cake represents the ideal relationship. An ideal relationship is a relationship where you feel loved and appreciated by your partner. It is a relationship where someone can accept you for you, including your flaws and good qualities.
The short stories “The Necklace” by Guy de Maupassant, “A Doll's House” by Henrik Ibsen, and “A Raisin in the Sun” by Lorraine Hansberry, are some examples that support Mannes observation of men and women. “The Necklace” tells us a story about a women who always imagined herself being in a high social position, but ultimately ended up being in a situation totally opposite of what she had dreamed of. Mathilde married a low income clerk who worked in the ministry of public instruction. Mathilde's husband, Monsieur, brought home an invitation from his job inviting him and his wife to a ball, but when Mathilde read it her reaction was far from what Monsieur thought it would be. Mathilde broke down and started crying, telling her husband the reason shes crying is because she only has no dress to wear to this ball.
When Mathilde gets invited to the fancy party, she begins to be frightened with what she will wear because she does not have many clothes in her closet and the few clothes that Mathilde does have in her closet are simply plain clothing wear that she would be ashamed to be seen worn in public. Unknowing of what goes through a womans mind, her husband suggests “The dress you wear to the theater. That looks quite nice”(Maupassant 1). Upset and in agony Mathilde continues to daydream about having the whole world in her hands, so she would be able to dress as she wishes. Knowing that she does not have the proper clothing and jewelry she starts to cry and get all upset, because she believes that since she does not have the “fancy” apparel, Mathildes husband proposes “All right.
The protagonist, Madame Loisel is a, ‘pretty and charming girl,’ we are told who, ‘as she has no dowry or inheritance marries a junior clerk in the Ministry of Public Instruction.’ The story is based around her and the fact that she feels she has married beneath herself, something many people (women especially) of this time would have sympathised with and understood. Mathilde Loisel’s husband manages to get her an invitation to an exclusive ball and she get a new dress and borrows a diamond necklace for the occasion. After having a wonderful evening at the ball Mathilde returns home to find that at some point during the evening she has lost the necklace and it cannot be found anywhere. Mathilde and Loisel then spend the rest of their lives trying to repay the debt they accumulated while trying to replace the necklace. Ironically the necklace was a fake and all their hard work was for nothing.