and Kevin responds with cold silence. From several events like these, we clearly see that Eva is very nostalgic about her old life as traveling journalist, however she continues to unknowingly love her son as a moth who cannot deny her motherly instincts. If she had really hated her son to her guts, she would've given him up for adoption or neglect him. However, she continues to take care of Kevin and longs to build a strong mother-son relationship by going to dinners, mini-golf, and tries to talk to him disregarding his cynical responses. Eva is also the kind of poon who tries to avoid hardship in a sense, because she only wants to do what makes her happy.
How does Williams evoke sympathy for Laura in this section of the text? Williams begins the scene exploring Laura slowly emerging from her quiet, reserved world. The audience clearly understand this is a direct result of Jim building her confidence and making her feel unique and pretty. He is helping her become part of the world she craves but has hidden from. The audience begin to hope Laura’s romantic dreams will become her reality and she will stop living in the lonely world she has wrapped herself in - the four apartment walls acting as her shield.
When she works up the courage to tell her boyfriend, Kai, she is afraid that he will leave her because of this news. To her surprise, he does the exact opposite. It actually seems that this tragedy makes Kai appreciate Faye even more as a person and that he falls in love with her even more. Then after reading A Sorrowful Woman, we are informed of a family whose wife of a hardworking man and mother of a little boy is seemingly helpless and very ill. She is so bad off, depressed, and sick that she did not
An intern tries to get Gramps to leave the room, since Gram has no idea he’s there. Gramps says, “Sonny, I’ve been by her side for fifty-one years…” (256). Gramps cares for his wife in love and friendship. Even though she is unconscious, Gramps remains a true friend to his wife and stays by her side. Finally, Sharon Creech shows through this theme how important friendship is to everyone.
Marilyn, who held a strong will to live, steadily accepts the fact that she must be released. The feeling of guilt showers over her as Barton informs her about the reality that her being there influences “the life of not one person but the lives of many.” (6) Her beg for mercy decelerates as she ponders about the seven other people’s lives that have to be sacrificed if she clings for her life. Her will to write her family letters depicts her acceptance towards death and her love she feels towards her family. Before she dies, she is given the opportunity to talk to her brother, Gerry. Both Gerry and Marilyn feel venerable to her death because they don’t have the power to alter the law of science.
Lindsey does not tell him that she is sick so when he asks why she does not want to have a relationship, she says, “I’m feeling things, too. And that part of me wants to go with those feelings. But right now, I just don’t know if I can. It’s complicated Chris.” (201). Lindsey only tells her closest friend about the disease and even though Lindsey is the one who is dying she only cares about her friend and how sad she must be.
She then goes onto talking about herself and how she ‘coulda made something’ of herself and that she only married Curley on the rebound. This then starts to make the reader feel sorry for her and rethink their opinion of her. She then continues to say ‘I don’t like Curley, he aint a nice fella’ which creates even more empathy toward her from the reader. This may be because she hasn’t achieved her dream and is living as part of someone else’s- on the rebound. Consequently her death, towards the end of the novel, creates a totally different image of her by the
Falling in love with Blancheflor has showed him how to be compassionate and how to think about someone else other than himself. He is not so selfish anymore and it is now that he actually starts to worry about his mother. When he left, she fell to the ground and it was unclear whether or not she was alive. Perceval did not care at all and kept going. He is finally starting to worry about his mother and sets on a journey back to
And still, the husband loved her, but unfortunately she could no longer fulfill her role of being a mother or a wife any longer because of her depression. Sadly, the husband understood the pain of his wife was going through, and knew he had to obey her demands of isolation for the safety of the child. No one will ever really know how the little boy must of felt; having little communication with his mother, this must have been tough on him. Even though he was not capable of writing notes, he still managed to communicate with his mother by drawing pictures. Unfortunately, he never got back any response because his mother only looked at the drawings.
Curley’s wife is definitely not evil. Being lonely, not respected and carrying around an unfulfilled dream takes a toll on her life. Being lonely can often have a positive and negative effect on a person’s life. Although Curley’s wife sometimes may corrupt a situation, she is not evil. Curley’s wife explained to Lennie about being lonely and how difficult it is on her.