The reader can understand from those lines that Karas’s wife has always had bad dreams. The reader can gather from the information Gay provides, that dreaming plays an important role in the story because Karas obviously does not want to be sober and feel the pain of his wife leaving him. He drinks to feel like he is only dreaming, and reality does not
When she has a vision of her cousin Tab, she starts to realize she should head home. “Lisa, some people have lives. Some people are moving on. Some people aren’t wallowing in misery like they’re the only ones on earth who’ve ever had someone die on them.” “Screw you,” I said, stubbing out another cigarette. “You almost got killed last night, you know that?” I shrugged, too mad to speak.
The novel has numerous examples of superficial relationships, which goes along with what Faber said. An example is Montag and his wife, Mildred. Mildred is just like everyone in this society; instead of caring about Montag and loving him, she goes along with society and doesn’t realize that its making Montag not care about her anymore, we can start seen this when Montag asks her when and where did they meet, and Mildred didn’t remember and says “It doesn’t matter” (Bradbury 43), this clearly shows that she has no interest in their relationship. Also when the author writes “And he remembered thinking then that if she died, he was certain he wouldn’t cry” (Bradbury 44). This quote means that Montag and
She stated that “Catherine Kohler Riessman reports in her new book Divorce Talk that most of the women she interviewed---but only a few of the men ----gave lack of communication as the reason for their divorces”(par.3). This means that women values having conversation with their husbands at home, and not getting this personal digest with their men has been the most factor in the increase of broken marriages in our community. She further explains some of these problems between genders. She said women expect men to be there best friends and confidant when it comes to sharing their feelings at home while men embraces silence because they don’t know what kind of word they want to hear and won’t cause conflict. Women in their understanding tend to assume that men are not listening to them when men are looking into distance when conversing whereas men are listening.
Rachel is unable to deal with her life after Carlton dies, and she abuses sleeping pills to cope with her pain (Phillips 191). She also sleeps with many different men because it is the only way that she is able to feel better (Phillips 99). The narrator says of happiness: “Julian was the only one left who might remind her what it looked like” (Phillips 80). Rachel is miserable and turns to any pleasure source she can find, which is one reason she wants Julian back. He does not know she abuses sleeping pills and is so miserable because she presents the illusion that she is doing okay.
June had an affair with another man, Gerry Nanapush, and after Lipsha was born, passed him off to Marie. Upon first hearing the news, Lipsha is surprised and denies it entirely. However, as the story continues, he becomes more and more at peace with it. The final scene of the book has Lipsha staring over a bridge into the water below, thinking of June. He thinks of her as “part of the great loneliness being carried up the driving current” (366), meaning that she has always been a solitary individual one with wild.
And I don’t read books, ‘cause if they’re any good, they’re gonna make ‘em into a miniseries.” (IMDB) Symbolism in the play isn’t easy to find, but if you listen closely it’s there. After the death of M’Lynn’s daughter Shelby, M’Lynn shares with her friends that she was the only one who stayed with Shelby as she died, “I find it amusing. Men are supposed to be made out of steel or somethin’. I just sat there. I just held Shelby’s hand.
It states “John is away all day, and even some nights when his cases are serious… I am glad my case is not serious”. Throughout the story she refers to him as dear. When it mentions “John laughs at me… but one expects that from a marriage,” that shows that John can also be the narrator’s husband. At the end of the story, when the narrator is has her mental breakdown, John ends up fainting after seeing how far gone the narrator has gone. This also makes it seem like John is the narrator’s husband because he is so
When reading this story I got the feeling that although the mother was sleeping with all these men to make ends meet, she was also doing it to fill a void in her. Maybe it was the loving and belonging of a male figure in her life. "For a brief second, I almost mistake him for the ghost of his father, an older lover who disappeared with the night's shadows a long time ago. "The mother longs so much for that void to be filled that she makes up a story for he son if he should wake up. "Should my son wake up, I have prepared my fabrication...I will tell him that his father has come, that an angel brought him back from Heaven for a while."
They thought they knew each other well enough to get married, but as Carl says it in the text “And once we did it seemed too late” (p.8, l.66). So now he thinks that he is stuck with this life. With a family that he feels separated from “they didn’t seem connected to him nor did he feel connected to them”(p.10, l.134). The only way for Carl to find comfort, for his sister’s illness, is in his sister’s friend, who is going through the same kind of pain. But since Carl moved to Worland with his wife and daughter a year ago, he hasn’t been able to stop thinking of Lily, a woman who attends his church.