On page, the narrator describes the scene in which the old house burns down. It is implied that Dee may have even burnt the old house down. Maggie is unfortunate enough that she burns fairly badly in the fire. Dee is a very unlikable person in many ways. The story "Everyday Use" expresses many of the ways she is unlikable including her selfishness, arrogance, and ungratefulness.
Dee was consistently ungrateful and displeased with her life despite her mother's hard work. “I see her [Dee] standing off under the sweet gum tree she used to dig gum out of; a look of concentration on her face as she watched the last dingy gray board of the house fall in toward the red hot brick chimney. Why don't you do a dance around the ashes? I'd wanted to ask her. She had hated the house that much.” This shows just how much Dee cared about her lifestyle and the location of the house.
Alisa Key August 16, 2010 AP English 11 The Scarlet Letter The progression of Hester throughout The Scarlet Letter was dramatic and varied greatly. In the beginning of the book she was feeling ashamed, isolated, and shunned by the townspeople. To her, the “A” stood for more than adultery, it stood for “ashamed.” She was being imprisoned by the judgment of others; the lock was a simple scarlet letter. She was living while being haunted by her past. Even seeing her own daughter, Pearl, would sometimes bring up the emotion of her sin all over again.
The love that you know everyone had for the Doctor is stated ‘The crazy people and the not-so-crazy people were all huddled together, like puppies in the pound”. Your heart is twisted with pain for these people that rely and love this doctor so much and now are lost and afloat, alone again. The image of despair is not just felt, it is seen. Rose is against taking any meds as she tries to find her niche in the family home. The mother is also despondent when she tells Rose that she will not be allowed to drive the car unless she takes her meds.
Frank, in a negative way. It must be remembered, however, that Anne, the rebellious adolescent, sees her mother as an irritating figure of authority, and Mrs. Frank must surely resent Anne’s rejection of her. Additionally, Mrs. Frank is particularly miserable in the annex, where they hide, for she is from rich family, where she knew the finest things in life and never had to work. As a result, the confining, cramped quarters of annex, the scarcity of basic necessities, and the work are real irritations to her. She often takes out her frustration on her chattering, sometimes irritating, younger daughter, Anne.
Her whole world went black and gloomy that day, and after her son’s death she just didn’t feel as if her life had meaning anymore. Aibileen has a quite strong dislike for whites now because when her son was severely injured at work, his fellow white coworkers did very little to help him; resulting in his death. Her bitterness emerges throughout the book, specifically when Mrs. Leefolt suggests that blacks were dirty. In response to this comment she said “I feel that bitter seed growing inside a me, the one planted after Treelore died. I want to yell so loud that Baby Girl can hear me that dirty isn’t a color, disease ain’t the Negro side a town.” Her son is her main motivation to keep pressing on through life no matter what.
We can see that Curley’s wife is portrayed by Steinbeck as a ‘tart’ in the beginning of the book, she is not cared for or liked by many of the men on the ranch at all as she irritates them and they think that she is not loyal towards Curley. However, by the end of the book the reader feels sorry for her as we see deeper inside her and see how lonely she is, she only has the image of a tart because she is so alone and the only way she knows to make friends is by being a flirtatious person. The first mention of Curley’s wife is in chapter 2 when George and ‘the swamper’ are talking about her. They say that she is ‘Purty ... but- well-she got the eye’. They mean that she is always looking and flirting with other men.
The narrative made it clear that she didn’t fit in with the people in her town but feared leaving because that lifestyle was all she ever known. The no named girl didn’t fit in because she was smarter than all of her peers. Her desire to fit in pushed her to start skipping school with the others. She also intentionally failed. The ranch girl should considered her self lucky that she was an outsider because the people that she wanted to fit in with lives changed in the worst ways.
This is shown, firstly, by talking to “bindle stiffs”, she really has no one else to go to and so resulted to what comes across to be the lowest people on the ranch. This is another clear sign of her desperation and of “ache for attention” that she feels inside. But the quote also shows her loneliness and defeat when she states that there “ain’t nobody else”, seemingly illustrating that there really is no one else that will listen to her talk. Curley’s wife can also be compared to Crooks because both characters suffer a great deal of prejudice from the other people on the ranch. Crooks often talks about his loneliness and how that the more lonely people get the more “mean” and “sick” they become.
Although she seems strong, the young girl can emotionally and physically take but so much which causes her to wish she was never born in the first place. Despite the bad weather, which can seem depressing, the girl still stands tall and although her life seems awful, she still has dreams of a better place that brings happiness. Night after night, after hearing desperate and pathetic cries from the poor girl, the neighbors still do not offer a helping hand. The ending of the song indicates the young girl has passed away. Sadly her name is described to be on her gravestone in a shaded place.