Many believe McCandless was indeed selfish, because McCandless abandoned his family to quench his own selfish thirst. In retrospect McCandless family dynamic was not peaches and cream. McCandless was pushed toward transcendentalism, when the families’ secrets where unveiled. McCandless’ father essentially fathered two families, which drove McCandless to the conclusion, that his life had been one big lie. In retaliation of abuse and deception, McCandless fled to find truth.
His character develops the most during the course of the movie. Most of his behavior and mistakes influence the family greatly, but his delayed trip to adulthood makes him a sort of the champion in the last scene. Walter believes that money can purchase the contentment of his family; therefore, he is unable to take on the necessary roll needed for being the head of a household. He is the main character in this movie and has the force within the family as the “man,” to alter the path of their lives. He showed very little emotional leadership and financial responsibility, additionally, he depends on money to meet his family’s needs and thinks that “life is money,” more than he trust in his momma and family.
Boor shows this when he writes, “So you figured it would be better if I just hated myself” (265). The only reason his parents told him the truth is Paul confronted them. While they admitted that he had a right to know, they justified their reason for not telling him earlier. Paul may have understood that his parents’ love led to their over protection but he probably distrusted his parents and their ability to tell him the whole truth. Paul’s parents’ choices changed the direction of his life.
Kathy was being a selfish wife because she did not want to listen to, nor talk about John’s issues, and instead she chooses to ignore them. In a relationship, mutual communication is essential between the individual and his or her spouse. According to an article on Psych Central entitled Marriage Communication by Erika Krull, “The whole point of communicating is to be clearly understood. To do that, your channel of communication must go two ways” with your significant other. In Kathy and John’s case, John was trying to communicate with Kathy about an important subject and Kathy is too wrapped up in herself, leaving John with no one to talk to.
She must fight off the influences of her grandmother, who encourages her to marry for security, and her first two husbands, who thwart her development. Her second husband, Jody, has an especially negative impact on Janie's growth as his prevailing aspirations turn her into a symbol of his stature in the town. She is not allowed to be herself, but must subdue herself to his ideas of propriety, which means she cannot enjoy the talk of the townsfolk on the porch let alone participate in it. “This business of the head-rag irked her endlessly. But Jody was set on it.
Antigone expects Creon to bury her brother just because they are family. " " Antigone has different beliefs then her uncle, Creon. She does this, to some extent, to defy Creon but also to allow Polynices to have a good after-life. “A higher law exists than that of of man’s, and that is the law of God.” (Woods 73). Antigone believes that without burying her brother he will not have a good after-life.
Just write the check and – the house is yours’ (His voice almost breaks) ‘And you – you people just put the money in my hand and you won’t have to live next to this bunch of stinking [blacks]!" (III.i.144). Walter decides that he is going to play the stereotype that Karl Lindner labels him as. He figures selling out and forfeiting his dignity is the only way to earn his father's money back. He wanted to do this because he wanted to get the money he lost back, but by doing that they will lose their dignity.
So when they met up again, Eva told him that she was going to have his baby. Eric obviously wanted to look after her as she was the woman having his child, but Eric didn’t have the money to pay for this. Consequently he went out to his father’s factory and knew his code to the safe and stole some money for Eva. Once she found out about this, she knew it would be wrong to accept the money from him, so Eric couldn’t support her no more. This lead to Eva Smith’s death as she couldn’t afford to live and had no hopes left after getting rejected from the cancel.
The prenatal Cash was a part of her, someone inside of her from whom she could never isolate herself. In the reluctant mother’s mind, Anse Bundren was to blame for corrupting her sense of privacy and would be forever dead to her. In this way, she severed what was supposed to be the most sovereign relationship in a woman’s life and created a rift through what was to come of the Bundren family. As the family grows, Addie develops misconceptions about her relationship to her children. Cash had violated her aloneness, while Darl was deprived of the love that Addie poured so strongly into the void that was her third son.
Abortion will never find its equilibrium and no one society will come to an agreement. Abortion laws have been implemented in order to help women, because regardless of the opinion of people they are still human and need help. There will never be a right way to go about abortion because everyone has their own sets of opinion. The only adequate solution would be to provide clinics for women, help, set laws, rule, and requirements. Because at the final moment it is up to the mother whether or not to abort.