The narrator states the mother’s resentment of Connie’s beauty because “her looks were gone and that was why she was always after Connie.”[451]. Connie doesn’t make the situation between the two any better by instigating her mother with curt answers and rude responses. “Her parents and her sister were going to a barbecue at an aunt’s house and Connie said ‘no’, she wasn’t interested, rolling her eyes to let her mother know exactly what she thought.”[453]. the only time Connie fully admits that she truly did love her mother was when she was crying in the phone for her. Connie’s father is a quiet bystander when it came to his wife and daughter heated arguments.
Here you see two women, who are young mothers involved in the local gang, on their own. There is no male presence around, mainly because the father of their children is dead. These same women who have gained respect from their male counterpart gang and are considered to be equal are not so equal to men when it comes to taking care of the children, something considered a women’s job while the man is working to provide. This signifies to the viewer a false view of Mexican-American women, who mother children at a young age. They are considered to be unfit mothers living off welfare because they have no jobs and on their free time are gang banging.
Her mother becomes disinterested in Waverly and no longer cares about her. Instead, she tells the family that “this girl not have concerning for us” (10). With this cruel and undeserving statement, Ma pushes away Waverly since she knows that Waverly is no longer out to please her. Moreover, she tells the family to not care for Waverly either, completely isolating her daughter from the rest of the family. Mother blocks Waverly from living a good life with her shallow values and lack of love towards her only
Else he gets mad. How’d you like not to talk to anybody”(95) Curley’s wife got lonely and did not have anyone to talk to. Curley’s wife said to lennie about how no one cares how she lives“Seems like ain't none of them cares how i gotta live”(96). So basically, no one doesn't care about what she does with her life or how she lives it. She started talking about her past and she said to Lennie“I lived right in Salinas.Come there when I was a kid.
Her mother’s constant insults also do nothing to uplift her self-esteem, instead hinder her development of self-identity. Kingston lacks voice because the sexist nature of Chinese culture which actively suppresses the voices of young women. Kingston even states when she was a newborn her mother cut her tongue and “sliced up the frenulum” which is symbolic of Chinese culture stifling the voices of young women. Eventually young Kingston finds her voice and identity by using the minor characters as a template for behavior by mimicking their actions and adopting a similar mindset. By idolizing the great women warriors in Chinese stories such as Fa Mulan and Ts'ai Yen, Kingston embraces her identity as a Chinese American and finds her voice.
Even more, she intentionally rejects Willard Pretty Dog as a lover after she learns that she's pregnant with his child. Aside from her self-determined inner human, Ida is known to be very stubborn. Manipulated and betrayed by people she trusted, Ida commits herself to withdrawing from the world and refuses to interact except on her own terms. Her silence creates confusion and misunderstanding in the lives of the children she raises, and this confusion and misunderstanding are in turn passed on to Rayona. Ida is primarily a static character, unlike Christine, Ida does not grow and change.
Because of the accident that caused her to lose her son, Becca seems to be a very bitter person; she is distant from her husband, judgmental of her sister, and rude to her own mother. Becca is a very pessimistic throughout the course of the play, and she believes no one will ever understand the pain she is going through. The protagonist in the play is Becca. Out of all the characters, she is the one who struggles the most to cope with her son’s death. She refuses to attend the support group that her mother, Nat and Howie suggest: NAT.
In the group is Alison Reynolds the misfit, Andrew Clark the jock, Brian Johnson the geek, Claire Standish the princess and John Bender the rebel. It is apparent that they all have stressed relationships with their parents, are unsure about their future and have immense pressure from their peers (Loukides, 30). Allison Reynolds is a strange, unusually silent character, who is a mystery to most people. She did not do anything to deserve detention, except that she had nothing to do on this day and decided to go into detention in order to find company. Her parents are uninvolved and ignore her.
Also how he has no respect for Roselyn. T rays insecurities show when he always make Lilly feel guilty abut her mom leaving and shooting her, even though he inflicted that on the house hold. CD. Lilly wasn't ever happy, and had this guilty lingering about her mother. She thought that herself was the problem, which made T rye aggressive and it was her fault not T-rays.
It could be inferred that such harsh expectations on Woods has stifled the growth of her identity, because she was forbidden to fulfill her ambitions of becoming a writer, and instead was almost coerced into succeeding academically and making her mother proud. This restricted sense of identity is also evident in the lives of Amy Chua’s daughters. A ‘Tiger Mum’ as featured on 60 Minutes, Chua has rigid rules about what her daughters are and are not allowed to do. Her highly regimented parenting style is a result of the belief that Chinese children should excel in every aspect of life as determined by their parents. Thus, Chua’s daughters also have an identity that is forced onto them, just as Woods had.