Maxim de Winter hates his wife very much as she was a profligate woman. Rebecca had secret relationships with many other men including ger cousin. She threatened de Winter and forced him to accept the situation and promised to play as a perfect wife. When she was diagnosed as cancer, she cheated de Winter by saying that she had a child with her cousin and almost made de Winter kill her. She was finally died of an accident, but continued to bother him even after he had married the heroin.
Blanche is watching all this drama with disgust when Stanley comes around the corner and informs Stella that Eunice is getting a drink at the Four Deuces, the bar around the corner where Eunice has gone. To this Stella remarks, “That’s much more practical”(P.75). Stanley looking at Blanche asks her if she knows someone named Shaw who met her in Laurel and got her mixed up with someone else at hotel Flamingo. He asks you know anyone named Shaw, She is shoked and tries to speaks lightly in her voice has a note of fear in it. She says that Shaw is common name.
This is tied into the 1920s though the new morals and standards of young women that were coming to power in the 1920’s. As they were in the hotel, Gatsby springs up and says “She never loved you, do you hear? He cried. She only married you because I was poor and she was tired of waiting for me. It was a terrible mistake, but in her heart she never loved anyone except me” (137) Gatsby is telling of how Daisy Buchanan is no longer loyal to Tom and how she now wants him back because he has run into money.
The only way that he would write stories is if his experiences in life left behind an emotional scar. Maryann Burk Carver, wife of Raymond Carver was his supporter and mother of his two children at a young age. In “Raymond Carver Life and Stories” written by Stephen King, Carvers life becomes open and evaluated within the public eye. Maryann had a “tipsy flirtation” at a party in 1975 where Carver’s alcoholism had taken full effect. Carver’s aggression grew wild in those years almost killing her when he hit her with a wine bottle across her head (King 2009).Carver’s alcoholism years only became worse after this incident with his wife.
Glass Kristina Snow is suffering from an addiction to meth and she struggles with it until she gives in and the “monster,” as she refers to it, takes her under again and she slowly loses everything, including her family and her baby. The book ends with her and her boyfriend being thrown into jail for possession, transportation, and intent to distribute meth. She also finds out she is pregnant with his baby. The tone the author uses for Kr.istina’s voice is very scattered from the beginning, when she is suffering from withdrawal, when she is high, and when she is crashing by the end of the novel. Glass is the 2nd novel in the Crank trilogy by Ellen Hopkins.
What could I say? I’m crying because I don’t know any of the dances?” Isabel also ends up sleeping with one of her bestfriend’s husband. Since she hasn’t had sex for awhile it was easy for her to fall into seduction. “And then he was in me and I was crying out, in pleasure… It was over and wrong… what would Liz say to me?” Besides the wrong she had done, Isabel is a good person at heart and tries to redeem herself by helping out the woman she hates most, Margaret Casey. “I had to cut myself off from the danger… Margaret had no manners.But I would help Margaret
In the story, Parker went back to his wife Lynn. Parker was mad at her because she crossed him during the heist with Mal. Lynn was talking about how she kept on wishing that she wished that she was dead instead of Parker. Parker told her to take pills to overdose herself. The next morning, Parker finds his wife dead which makes him angry.
In this famous novel, Blanche Dubois goes to live with her sister Stella Kowalski. She has to tell her sister the bad news that she lost their family home, Belle Reve, and also took off from her teaching job due to her bad nerves. This is the first indication of Blanche’s insanity. She is clearly unaware because she says, “Is there something wrong with me?” Another sign is Blanche’s horrible drinking habit, which research shows can lead to making horrible decisions and can alter ones life. “Both Blanche’s drinking and her endless hot baths suggest that she is attempting to wash away her past and emerge through a sort of watery purgatory.” Stanley, Stella’s husband, does not really like Blanche and accuses her of being crazy, which is an accurate description.
Angelia Lopez Mrs. Spiegel Period: 1 August 22, 2012 The Unhinged Influences That End In Tragedy “You think you have mastered it but it just as you get well underway in following, it turns a back somersault and there you are It slaps you in the face, knocks, you down, and tramples upon you. It is like a bad dream.” (Gilman. 6) Men as husbands and other male influences have had a dominate effect on the women population. In the nineteen century women were appraised as if nothing more but a chambermaid. The really didn’t have any assumptions or says the men were subjugate.
She loved Jay even after she was married yet she loves Thomas who has cheated on her everywhere they go. Daisy has yet to work a single day in her life but is willing to help out a poor dear in need. On the contrary, Myrtle Wilson cheated on her husband with Daisy’s husband, Thomas Buchannan. She hated being in the small garage, and wants to be a rich woman. Every once in a while she would run off with Tom and live in an apartment.