Through this metaphor Harwood insinuates that all of the woman’s passion has been lost through her obligation to household chores such as scouring out crusted milk. Another notable inclusion in the poem is two children that the woman has no control over as she is too busy chasing lost dreams. Her performances are not even worth listening to according to Rubinstein, presumably one of the children. In fact her performances are so mundane that they would rather “caper round a sprung mousetrap” than listen to her perform. As she wraps the dead mouse in a paper we are notified of the words “Tasty dishes from stale bread”, symbolic of her vain attempts to resurrect something that is already lost.
When Barbara says that she will take her back to sunshine hostel Verge says “I don’t belong there.” She then goes on to say “I belong with you” while sitting down on her cases to indicate that she is not going to leave. Shortly after saying these things verge strokes her mother’s face and says “I love you”, Barbara dismisses this by saying that they let her watch too much television. She clearly feels no need to have a close relationship with Verge. When Den starts to say that he may be able to make some room in the house for Verge Barbara yells “NO!
Steinbeck leaves her unnamed so she lacks something that makes her appear as an equal individual. She is not meant to be very important in this novel. Curley’s wife is not part of the story to connect with the reader, and by giving her a name, the reader would become much more attached. Curley’s wife is isolated and ignored in Of Mice and Men. She isn’t cared about at all.
She took off her glasses and stared at me. "I'll tell you why," she said. "Because – he – is – trash, that's why you can't play with him. I'll not have you around him, picking up his habits and learning Lord-knows-what." (23.86-87) Aunty sees the Finch name like an exclusive brand – it’s valuable when you can only find it at Bloomingdale’s, but make it available at Wal-Mart and it’ll seem cheap.
Her personalitly is not one that is liked by many. She does not want anything to do with the familt that oppressed her. Eventually, at the end of the story Dee learns that she will not always get her
Avery “You can’t go around making caricatures of the neighbours”. Miss Maudie is the complete opposite as a self-centered lady as she says “Only thing I worried about last night was all the danger and commotion it caused. This whole neighbourhood could have gone up.” And in return to Mr. Avery generosity helping she’ll “make him a Lane cake”. Chapter 8 also suggests most of the other neighbors in Maycomb are just as caring and affectionate as Miss Maudie. For example Miss Stephanie has let Miss Maudie stay at her house while her house gets rebuilt.
Mean Girls is sending a message to say take responsibility for your before it gets worse. In Mean Girls Cady acts like an innocent bystander and doesn’t own up to anything she has done. When she keeps ditching her real friends Janice and Damian and then denies doing it. When Cady was at Regina’s house and writing stuff in the burn book and talking about people behind their backs and says “ I know it may seem like I’ve become a bitch, but that’s only because I was acting like a bitch” She was in denial of doing anything wrong and she was just acting. In the office after the ‘burn book’ was spread across the school Cady denied she had taken any part in it, But after all the denying and lying everyone saw her for the backstabber she is and Janice saw us way before everyone.
Melinda does not even like her but it the only girl that doesn’t know about the party. She wouldn’t lose her friends if she just told the truth. Most of all is that Melinda is hurting herself. “Its easier not to say anything…no body really wants to hear what you have to say”(9). Because of this she is slowly rotting away.
The narrator discloses that it is actually a good thing that she is not caring for the baby. “I never thought of it before, but it is lucky that John kept me here after-all, I can stand it so much easier than a baby, you see.” (10). The reader starts to get a sense that the narrator cannot care for her baby, as her entire world revolves only around the room and the wallpaper that surrounds it. The narrator’s husband does not want her to do anything in the room, not even write in her journal. “There comes John, and I must put this away- he hates to have me write a word.” (4).
Molly McCans November 22,2011 Block 4 Pass Me the Storage Bin “ you’re living in a pig pen! This room is so gross and disgusting. How can you live like this?” Those words coming out of my moms mouth are all I can remember. So my bedroom had toys, dirty clothes, clean clothes, and trash all over the place? What was an eight year old supposed to do, I’d rather play with my Bratz dolls than clean my bedroom.