In the story, “A Doll’s House”, we have Nora living with a secret and trying not to let her husband, Torvald Helmer know. She is so distraught, that she tells a friend, the same friend who hired her in place of another employee. That same employee is hurt and blackmails Nora about what she did. Nora does everything she can to plead with Krogstad not to tell Torvald, but in the end, he finds out. In the story, “The Story of an Hour”, Mrs. Mallard learns of her husband’s death from her sister Josephine.
Then when she grows up she has a baby and Madame Valmonde goes to visit her and her baby. Armand, being a slave owner when realizes that the baby is not white meaning that Desiree is not white he tells her to leave the house. Desiree feels sad and desperate because of the situation and writes to her mom for help. She tells Desiree to come home with her baby. Later on, Armand burns anything that belongs to Desiree and feels like he doesn’t love her anymore just because the shame she brought to his family.
This loss of humanity symbolizes her loss of artistic inspiration and a sense of her own unique identity. Yolanda - she is the tomboy amongst the four girls in the family and she got in trouble most of the time when she was a child. She felt the fear as her family struggled to leave the Dominican Republic. Once in the United States, she had difficulty interacting with men in sexual and romantic situations, and eventually divorced her husband, John. This heartbreak led to a mental breakdown and the
The other one who is very dependent on the men in her life and then is afraid of being deserted and abandoned. In Story of an hour; Mrs. Mallard is the wife of Mr. Mallard. She has a very delicate heart condition so the news of her husband’s death is broken to her gently. Her husband’s friend Mr. Richards is there at the house along with Mrs. Mallard’s sister Josephine. Mr. Richards was in the newspaper office when he heard the news of the railroad disaster.
His “slicing emotional realism” set him apart from most. Diaz found away to connect with readers through his lucid but yet funny writing style. This source connects and ties directly into what I had described before with Diaz and his detailed writing style. I had mentioned how he was very descriptive and used imagery to get messages across to the reader. Almost like he is creating a movie with words, Diaz paints a picture for his readers with every sentence.
Towards the end of the story, the narrator begins to obsess over the yellow wallpaper that covers the walls of the nursery. She eventually begins to see what she describes as a female figure trapped behind the bar-like pattern and comes to believe that she and the figure are suffering from the oppression of being imprisoned. As her preoccupation of the wallpaper pattern progresses, she no longer has the desire to become who her family wishes her to be and instead thinks only of how she can go about releasing the woman from the wallpaper. She grows more obsessive and insane with the passing of each day. In the end of the story, the narrator has lost all sense of reality, and John discovers her crawling around on the floor of the nursery, following the pattern of the wallpaper.
When Miss Havisham invited Pip to her house, she whispered to Estella, “Well? You can break his heart.” (58) Estella continued to relentlessly pick on Pip because he was a commoner until he cried. Because she did what Miss Havisham told her to do, she made Pip feel so appalling that he wanted to become a gentleman just so she wouldn’t make fun of him anymore. Estella had no say in what she wanted to do throughout beginning of the story and essentially acted like Miss Havisham’s puppet. Pip is an orphaned boy who lives with Joe and Mrs. Joe and plans to work at the forge like Joe when he grows up.
The yellow glove Homer wore on his and Miss Emily’s buggy rides represents the friendliness of Homer that the town seemed to enjoy but the yellow pillow that Miss Emily’s head rested on when she passed most likely represented her mental state at that time. Lastly there is the color red. Red is the color of love and the bedroom in the upstairs of the house was decorated in red symbolizing her love for Homer. Through color, Homer Barren, and Mrs. Emily’s house and actions symbolism is used to express the different perspectives of new and old generations ideas on changes in society. Emily staying true ideals and traditions.
The plot revolves around them and what happens to them. I believe that a story without characters is like the earth without humans; it would be incomplete! I don't think it's necessary to like the character, but more so important to at least be able to identify with the character. An interesting character should have at least one flaw or weakness, perfect characters don't draw in my attention as well. In the short story "The Yellow Wallpaper", the author, Charlotte Perkins, does an excellent job of painting a picture of the main character.
Though the overall mood of the poem is of fear for her unborn child and resignation to the way the world is. The Harlem Renaissance was a time of cultural expression, but also a time of fear and malcontent. Black men were disrespected and mistreated and children were seeing this as a part of everyday life. Women were afraid for their children and the use of villainizing the police and white men was prevalent in the period. The frustrations of the black woman in a man’s world are seen in the piece that isn’t seen in other pieces done by the men of this period so that it gives you insight into the might of the black woman then.