While talking about his wife and females he talks as if he is irritated and excited. For example, he uses just periods when talking about himself, but when he talks about his wife he uses exclamation marks and capitalization plus he is extra humorous comical. Like, when he tries to get her attention via the “Universal Husband Jingling Method” which is to jingle your keys. It’ll upset his wife and make her think, “Why is he JINGLING already? We have TONS of time!” Aside from Dave Barry’s tone, he uses hyperboles to exaggerate how much time it takes for his wife to get ready.
“I get lonely” (87). Whenever Curley catches her talking with the other men, he threatens to hurt them. When Curley’s wife talks to Lennie in the barn right before her kills her, Steinbeck really makes a point that she is not a tramp, but is just mistreated. “You can talk to people, but I can’t talk to nobody but Curley, else he gets mad. How’d you like to not talk to anybody?”
In turn this event began to eat at her father’s ability to stay present for his daughters, leaving only Tana to be there for Pearl. Years later, Tana has been given the Cold and Pearl is now left with no one there for her. This character is easy to sympathize with because she has gone through many hardships at a young age, and is left with no family to care for her Next, the author makes it so that the reader can easily sympathize with Tana. This is because Tana is used and attacked by her mother, who was unable to control her temptations. The Cold makes you thirsty for human blood and Tana’s mother manipulated her and appealed to her naivety by saying that she changed and was better.
Then George warned Lennie to keep away from her; “Listen to me you crazy bastard, don’t you even look at that bitch. I don’t care what she says and what she does, I seen ‘em poison before but never seen no piece of jail bait worse than her.” Curley’s wife causes tension on the ranch because she annoys and embarrasses Curley by wandering around the ranch flirting. This makes Curley angry and feel humiliated because his wife is always seeking the attention of other men. Curley got angry with the other worker because his wife is often disappearing and he felt as if the other man laughed at him because he could not keep control of his wife. “If you can’t keep control of your god-damn wife what do you want me to do about it?” Curley’s wife’s behaviour on the ranch angered Curley so much that he often vented his anger on the other men because Lennie was laughing to himself.
They all believe that she purposely dresses seductively and her actions are to seduce the men so they lose their job. His initial portrayal of Curley's wife also shows her to be a mean and seductive temptress. Curley's wife's evil-spirited side is shown when she threatens to have Crooks lynched. She is paralleled to Eve in the Garden of Eden. Curley's wife shattered Lennie and George's dream of a farm the same way Eve tempted Adam to eat from the forbidden tree, ending their paradise.
Hester, a woman that has been criticized by the community, a scarlet letter put upon her bosom, and put on a pedestal for the whole town to shame. She stands there and looks into the crowd sees the father, is told to say who the father is and refuses, which brands her with the letter and shame till the end of the novel, if this isn’t a sign of courage I don’t know what is. Her daughter steers her strait and keeps Hester on the road to God. Hester thinks in more than one level depending on the spot in the book, she never thinks in level one mainly because she doesn’t give up the name of the father of the child so doesn’t say yes or no to avoid pain, but she does think in level four though because telling of whom the real father is would be against natures and God’s law, but not telling is against mans law. In the situation she also thinks in level five because it would be against her ethics to tell, and get the man she loves arrested or worse hanged.
Also when Proctor talks to Abigal alone and tells her that they will no longer have an affair. “I still wait for you to come back John...(Abigal)…”those days are long over and will never happen again(Proctor)” (miller 192). In the first Act John Proctor has a very troubled past and is feels very guilty for it and these quotes show it. In Act Tree proctor starts to change into a more protective husband. Proctors wife has been convicted of being a witch by Abigal and the towns men are about to take her away and Proctor stands in front of them and says ,“Youl’ll leave her out of sight and out of mind mister!”(202) Also when he is in the court house trying to save his wife and admits to having an affair with Abigal ruining hiss own name to save his wife.
The lines of repression portray that she was in an unhappy marriage. Her heart trouble at such an early age was also another sign that she was unhappy. The death would release her from all her unhappiness and usher her in to the world of independence, self-control and a new life. When in her room, the words “Free! Free!
I’m upset because the other children bully him, especially a boy called Clifford and a girl named Aggie. Dave thinks it is only a matter of time before she kills him, and he gets more rebellious, hoping that she will do it and so end his misery. One day at the store with his mother and brothers, he refuses to follow her orders, and when they get out of the store she beats him. When they get home she gives him another dose of the “bathroom treatment,” locking him in the bathroom with the poisonous fumes of ammonia and Clorox. In the fall of 1972, Dave’s mother seems to get worse.
Is that all I am?”, when Doug harshly criticizes his father, or when Flan coldly dismisses a life changing decision his daughter is attempting to tell him about only serve to highlight the distending differences between the adult characters in this play and their children. Even during the phone call Paul has with Ouisa, she at one point says, “We’ll be there Paul. We love you.” Sounds to me like something a parent would say to his/her child but the Kittredges never even utter anything even remotely warm to theirs. Only after Paul’s arrest and possible suicide does Ouisa realize that what needs repair is her relationship with her