Curley’s wife’s obsession with herself ultimately leads to her death. She knows Lennie is supposed to stay away from her, but thrives on his attention and wants his praise for her soft hair. It is not coincidental that she ends up losing her life because she didn’t want Lennie to mess up her hair. This final event sums up Curley’s wife’s role fairly neatly. Steinbeck presents Curley as a woman with huge dreams and hopes who aspires to be famous in Hollywood and life a king size life.
Destroying Avalon By: Kate McCaffrey (Spoilers included) Destroying Avalon is about an ordinary country girl named Avalon whose parents decide to move to the city. Avalon didn’t have a good feeling about this, but eventually her mother convinced her that city life will be a good change for her. Avalon trusted in her mother’s words and was looking forward to meeting new friends and starting a new life. Avalon meets a few friends on the first day, but not everyone is accepting. Avalon was a pretty, smart and kind girl so she was a definite threat to the popular girls.
“Her refusal to have her marriage dissolved…freed her temporarily from certain wifely duties…gave her a chance to have a girlhood” (28). Unlike woman of the time, Bertrande’s clever insight uncovers the advantageous qualities of an unconsummated married. Bertrande further eludes societal norms in meeting her alleged husband, Arnaud du
Take Beryl for example, Carl never has enough confidence and motivation to stand up to her for the way she treats Harley. It is only towards the end of the book where he finally stands up for himself and also Harley. Justine played a big role in this, because as Carl started opening up to her, he became more and more confident and self-assured. Beryl never took responsibility for the kids. “If you just stayed with him, Kept an eye on him, loved him, he wouldn’t get into trouble.’ It’s because of Beryl Harley gets into strife.
Ellen's arguments make good points for why a woman should keep her maiden name, and how there's no reason for the woman to change the name, but as a young girl grows up around parents who shared the father's name, and in a society where it is normal to take the mans name, it seems only inevitable that the tradition will continue. Most women would say that Ellen is making an argument out of nothing, since the majority of women honestly will not care what name they feel more bonding with their loved one by sharing a last
But if Pattyn pulled up a gun to her father’s face her would tell her he loves her but do you really think he is telling her the truth? I would have to say that “Burned” is one of the best books I have read so far. This book can relate to a lot of teenage girls right now. It explains how Pattyn is a nobody in school and she wants to find love because she is tired of being lonely. But eventually when she is sent to her aunt J’s house she found
Although, Dana’s fear is not about death, she fears never being able to establish a life somewhere to create a family because military men are always traveling or moving from city to city. Charles knows about all these sacrifices, and without a doubt he knows that Dana is this kind of strong woman as he wrote in the journal to their son Jordan, “It takes a special kind of woman to be married to a soldier. (…) You really have to be a self-motivated and strong-willed person. You spend a lot of time alone because he’s gone” (210). Charles’ decision is reasonable, and unfortunately he could not go through to his plans of completing the tour of duty and coming back home for
Sister sees right through her sister’s façade considering the timing of everything. Her simple comment on the matter sparks Stella-Rondo to attack by turning Papa-Daddy against her saying that she wonders why he doesn’t cut his beard (Welty). Sister makes Stella-Rondo seem powerful so she can seem like the
d. Daisy is a wife and mother. She is a woman who is so highly set on the goals of having the best of everything, and being above everyone else. She is the love of Gatsby’s life whom he wishes she would drop it all and come back to him, but this is not the case. Daisy is to be a heart breaker to many. Daisy is swept up in her own little fantasy world in some situations.
And this contrasts with how she felt when she belonged and had her identity in America. However, Betty chose to convert for her husband as she loved him; however the shift in the attitude towards her husband decreased immensely as he started to treat her as an outcast and she never achieved the sense of belonging within the family. Betty and Elizabeth Proctor both respect the religions and cultures they have. However, Moody’s family are only interested in her as the mother of her husband’s child; her role appears as to be the infidel mother of an Islamic daughter, and never belonged within the family. In the scene where Moody tells Betty that they’re staying at Tehran she replies “You lied to me, you held the Koran and you swore to me that nothing was going to happen, you were planning this all the time.