I have sympathy for both sisters for very different reasons. Most of this sympathy is towards Dee. My reason is simple; I feel she has a superficial view on heritage. She is arrogant and I find her to be condescending and a little disrespectful. From the beginning when we were first introduced to Dee, we find that she has changed her name to Wangero saying that Dee is “dead” because she didn’t think her name, Dicie, had any cultural significance and so she choice a name she felt suited her more.
Dunstan Ramsay had a number of women pass throughout his life. Each of the women played an important role in his life. His mother caused him to become isolated and distant from women. Mary Dempster took away Dunstan’s childhood because of the guilt he felt for her simplicity, and he also was the only woman he truly loved. Leola caused Dunstan to experience jealousy and pity.
The DeRosier’s were also the ones who shattered her dreams of a perfect family by saying “We take you in because your parents don’t want you"(35). The DeRosier’s left April with a shame of her background and an even deeper shame for her parents. Even though the DeRosier’s did so much bad for April and her identity, they still did some good for her. They made such an horrible environment but April stayed strong and grew as a person. She even said “I could let the DeRosier’s suck out my dignity for now and I could pretend they had me where they wanted me.
In this story, Hester is convicted of committing adultery with the Reverend in her town, and is left to raise her new offspring by herself in the outskirts of her town. When Hester married Roger Chillingworth, she told him that she does not love him, but he still marries her because he loves her. The author of this work uses imagery in light of George Chbosky’s quote. Another example, is when Hester decides to stay close to her town where she committed adultery instead of leaving to another town to start over again. She makes this decision to remain close to her secret lover, Reverend Dimmesdale.
She knows that she will cry when she sees the corpse of her husband. Although she had some feelings of love for her husband, she tries to console herself that none of that mattered anymore and she would get a new kind of freedom. From the general look of things, it seems that this marriage was rather a sad than a happy one. At the beginning of the story, Louise is described to have a “fair calm face whose lines bespoke repression” (Chopin 2). The lines of repression portray that she was in an unhappy marriage.
She teaches Douglass his A B Cs and began to teach him words until her husband becomes aware of this abnormal treatment and thus bringing about Mrs. Auld’s transformation from a sweet and caring woman to a cruel and cold slave owner. Douglass works for Mrs.Auld for about seven years and watches his once kindhearted mistress transform into a coldhearted tyrant. While Mrs. Auld would once sit and teach Douglass how to read and spell, she now snatched a newspaper out of his hand whenever she saw him. Mrs. Auld no longer treated Douglass like she once believed every human should be treated. Master Hugh’s reprimand serves as the beginning of her desensitization.
The narrator, also the daughter, explains her joy and pride for her new articles of clothing. She says, “ My shoes are my greatest joy, black patent-leather miracles, and when one is nicked at the toe later that morning in class, my heart will break.” When the daughter describes the shoes as miracles, she shows how proud she is to have them. This alone is due to her mother buying them. The mother takes great care in preparing her daughter for her first day of school. She shows her support by serving a large breakfast of oatmeal sweetened by brown sugar and milk, spending a hour on making her girl’s hair look perfect, and by dabbing of bit of precious gardenia perfume behind her ears.
Minerva and Maria Teresa have been released to house arrest; Minerva struggles to adjust to all the stimuli of Mama's house and finds herself overwhelmed. To make money, they start up a specialty business of making children's christening gowns. They are allowed to visit their husbands at La Victoria on Thursdays and to attend church on Sundays. But when she goes out, Minerva feels overwhelmed by all the people wanting to see her and wish her well, since she has become famous. Minerva survives by putting on "that hardest of all performances, being my old self again," though she feels frail.
In the novel, Hester likes to help out others as in serving the poor and giving them clothing. To me she takes a lot of time tending to other people and never has time to think about herself. She is stuck in a "hole" that she cant get out of because of the harsh behavior she has gone thorough, especially with her fathers sexism. And to think all of these characteristics play in to what kind of person she is, she has become, and who she will be. Another important character is Arthur Dimmesdale.
I walked over to the other side of the bed and placed my hand into the open palms of my nanas, I leaned into her ear " Nana, i dont know if you can see me or hear me but its Rob and i want you to know that we made it here safe, and I love you." As I uttered this sentence i felt her gently grasp my hand. I stood there, i wasnt sure why but I starred endlessly at the machine, I watched as the numbers rose and then dropped. For hours I waited, I watched and I prayed. I prayed that the years of hurt and anger that had found its way into my dads heart would somehow disappear for just this moment, that the loss of words between him and my aunt would mend and my grandmother would