“Understand that your cat is a whore and can’t help you. She takes on love with the whiskery adjustments of a golddigger, ” (page 164). From a first glance, Trudy is writing a diary entry about her cat. But after further analyzation, it’s really hinting to the readers right from the start that Moss is cheating on her. Trudy’s cat represents Moss.
Having running water, a vehicle, automatic washer and dryer are all new and seldom owned. Edie also explains how her role in the house is utilized and over-looked when the pilot arrives on the scene. Edie does not explain a lot of her own emotions in the story, only does the reader know of her curiosity of being intimate with a man by her story inside the story. Edie explains, “Muriel Lowe and I used to sleep on her front veranda and watch her sister and her sister’s boy friend saying good night. Afterwards we couldn’t get to sleep, for longing for somebody to kiss us…”(as cited in Clugston, 2010, section 8.1 para.
His own accounts with women dealt with sensitivity to the way his mother and sister were treated by his father. “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof” has extreme undertones of emotional, sexual, and spiritual need that are apparent in his character “Maggie the Cat”. During the 1950s women were conditioned to find their worth in marriage and creating a sound family structure. The women in Williams’ play are portrayed as very dependent creatures with a variety of characteristics, each in their own very different but all three tied by the constraints of society. Women were to marry, and no matter how miserable they were treated, they were to please their husbands.
I felt cheated, like I had lost something special. Until recently, I had forgotten that feeling, and I generally ignored the passage of time – until I read Gwen Harwood’s “The Violets”, a poem, (among other things) about a young girl lamenting the loss of her day to sleep. “But used my tears to scold the thing I could not grasp or name, that while I slept had stolen from me”. This poem brought me to consider once more my first ideas on lost time, ultimately leading to a greater appreciation for every passing moment in my life. By looking at the shifting dynamics of relationships, life, death and memory, Harwood highlights the fact that we are living in a world where time is constantly slipping out of our hands.
In “Pathedy of Manners” by Ellen Kay, the character seems to represent lack of satisfaction, lost opportunity and regret. The poem paints for the readers, an image of a girl that had it all. She was Phi Beta Kapa in college, smart, pretty and sought after by men. She even went on to get married, “They had an ideal marriage and ideal but lonely children in an ideal house.” This shows that the children were not given much attention. Not even the children are happy in the “ideal house.” Later the poem says: “I saw her yesterday at forty-three, her children gone, her husband one year dead, toying with plots to kill time and re-wed illusions of lost opportunity."
‘In this slumbery agitation.’ He can tell that something is bothering her deeply and becomes more interested in what she does while sleepwalking. He asks the Gentlewoman what she has heard Lady Macbeth say in her sleep, to which she replies, ‘I will not report after her.’ The Doctor insists, but she again refuses. This shows how loyal she is to Lady Macbeth, perhaps implying that Lady Macbeth is very kind to people in normal circumstances, without her
Muriel is more concerned about her appearance than her husband’s emotions, and reads women’s magazines while Seymour reads poetry. They are both seeing the same thing, but evaluating completely differently; this shows how the two have grown apart, and have opposite prospective on life. Salinger starts the story off with a phone conversation, which provides important background on the characters that is not truly understood at the time. Muriel’s mother is quite concerned about Seymour’s emotional state. One of the first things she says is, “I've been worried to death about you” which is ironic because Seymour actually dies in the end, but it shows how the situation is serve, yet the much younger Muriel simple answers with “I'm fine.
Just like any other love story , I’m going to introduce the two people that usually end up together except in this love story the ending isn't a very happy one. “Will you be mine?” while handing her a huge bouquet of roses “Yes!” They were each other’s first love, on an on-and off relationship for 4 years. ; 4 very painful yet wonderful years. But Aerith was tired of it, always getting hurt, running back to him as if she was always the one at fault. She texted Myles, a week before, she left for a holiday.
When they arrive, she feels that there is something “queer” about the estate. She even goes further to say that the house is haunted and wonders why it was unoccupied for so long. Her husband, John, thinks that the summer home will do her some good, because she is suffering from temporary nervous depression. John honestly does not think that anything is wrong with her and has convinced others of the same. The wife is forbidden to write or leave the house, and is confined to her bedroom most of the day.
In the 1930s America, women were seen as inferior to women. They were deprived of many rights and their default position was thought to be at home. Married women were by law forbidden to work and those unmarried were reduced to the worst jobs of society. In Of Mice and Men which is essentially a poignant tale about the friendship between two men, Steinbeck presents to us an unvaried sample of women. One of which actually speaks and appears for herself in person and another who although appears to have some moral values is “dead” and only appears through Lennie as a figment of his imagination.