Her father, Antonio Martinez, was an officer in the Cuban army and her mother, Ernestina Hoya, was a homemaker. This was pre-revolutionary Cuba and the family enjoyed a comfortable lifestyle in Havana. Alonso began dancing at a very young age. "When I was little, I'd move around whenever I heard music, maybe like Isa-dora Duncan, because I didn't know what dancing was. I dreamed of having long hair, so I'd dance around with towels on my head, pretending it was my hair streaming out behind me," she told www.culturekiosque.com.
Priestley first describes Sheila as naïve and she seems very 'playful' and he says she is being possessed as she talks to Gerald. Although she is 'half serious, half playful' Priestley makes her seem more clever as she has suspicions about Gerald when she mentions 'last summer, when you never came near me'. This only becomes noticable to us when Gerald reveals that he had an affair with Eva Smith. Sheila makes an effort in act 1 to get her parents to approve of Gerald. When she receives the ring from Gerald, she is immediately 'excited', and Priestley shows this in her speech with the use of dashes as she asks 'Mummy - isn't it a beauty?'.
In A&P, it's obvious Sammy tries to impress the prettiest girl that walked in with her bathing suits along with her friends, whom he named "Queenie". As these girls walk in, the music changes and you see Sammy's attention turn to them and he forgot about the "witch" for a second and rings her "hose" twice. This shows he has an interest in her and will want to impress her and get her attention. He tried impressing her by quitting his job. He tells Lengal, "I said I quit".
It is then that it becomes noticeable that the blind man makes the woman happier than her own husband does. Later on in the story, the blind man tells a joke and the woman laughs. Her husband notices this action. Observing of the actions a woman and how she acts in the presence of other men, and actually noticing the difference is something that jealous men do. The husband is obviously not happy that the blind man makes his wife laugh more than he does while he is not even able to do so himself.
He loved Allie then he died so now Holden subconsciously relates love with death, disappointment, and despair. While people without PTSD relate love with happiness, beauty, and stability. Also he has trouble forming basic relationships with people. With his roommates, Stradlater and Ackly, he admits to not liking them. He dislikes ackly for the simple reason that he has bad hygiene and it annoys Holden.
Therefore the girls have just hit puberty and are discovering themselves in a whole new way. They are very critical of themselves from this point on. “One was complaining to the other that she thought her butt was more heart than bubble and that she wanted bubble. And her friend [Cathy] said she thought heart was the best.” (178). Later in the story, when Tina is kissing the cute boy from the poster store, she continues to judge herself while thinking “how it [the skirt] had held in her butt and if she had been wearing that plastic skirt now, and he held her butt, it would remind him of a bubble, not a heart.
He does, however try to give these women a chance to almost prove to him that they aren’t phonies, but almost every single time he is disappointed. This leads him to conclude that all of them are phonies. He also believes that the adult world is so full of phonies that the people living in that world can’t even see what they have become, making him lose even more respect for people who are older than himself. He is scared of growing up, and because of this, he reacts negatively towards people who are older than he. Because of this, it’s almost impossible for him to trust or respect women.
Upon being asked whether he would like an introduction, Mr Darcy turns, looks at Elizabeth coldly and says: '"She is tolerable; but not handsome enough to tempt me; and I am in no humour at present to give consequence to young ladies who are slighted by other men. You had better return to your partner and enjoy her smiles, for you are wasting your time with me."' Whilst Mr Bingley is thinking positively, admiring all the attractive and pleasant girls in the room, Mr Darcy remains resolute that he does not want to dance. Mr Bingley asks whether he would like an introduction
(Oates 4) There is a common colloquial phrase that reads “Just smile, it confuses everyone.” None could be truer for Arnold Friend. While a smile is often a gesture used to express happiness, Friend uses it to trick a young girl, Connie, out of her home and thus destroys any chance of her happiness. In this sense, Arnold Friend’s sly grin epitomizes the Old English “smygel ‘cuniculus’ (only in glosses), related to smúgan to creep” (OED). Arnold Friend is nothing more than a creep. He is an older man, attempting to fit in with a much younger crowd, and “marking” girls he wants with his signature “X,” all of which are signs that something is amiss, and possibly dangerous.
She says 'For youth is bought more oft than begged or borrowed' showing her lusting after the young Viola. This sharply contrasts what happens when Malvolio enters, as we can gather that he is a much older character. This reinforces to the audience that we know Malvolio is indeed the opposite to what Olivia wants, reinforcing the dramatic irony of the scene. The way she says 'I am as mad as he, if sad and merry equal be' suggests she believes he will just be sad, but she is mad in love with cesario/viola, showing how she really is not prepared for Malvolio being madly in love with her. When Malvolio enters he is enthusiastic ' Sweet lady, ho ho!'