Their enticing sexuality, he believes, tempts men to behave in ways they would otherwise not. A visit to the “flophouse” (a cheap hotel, or brothel) is enough of women for George, and he has no desire for a female companion or wife. Curley’s wife, the only woman to appear in Of Mice and Men, seems initially to support George’s view of marriage. Dissatisfied with her marriage to a brutish man and bored with life on the ranch, she is constantly looking for excitement or trouble. In one of her more revealing moments, she threatens to have the black stable-hand lynched if he complains about her to the boss.
At the end of the story, we can only assume that they decide to go through with the abortion, when Jig tells the American male “I don’t care about me.” The man goes and haves a drink by himself and return to his companion. She assures him that she is fine and they both head to Madrid, where, presumably, the abortion will take place. Some of the themes used in this story includes the coming of age, psychological manipulation in a sense that he attempts to manipulate Jig into having the abortion by presenting the operation as a simple procedure that is in her best interests. The dynamics of the romantic relationship and it’s metamorphosis into a family is another theme. When it comes to symbolism, this story has plenty of it.
This masterpiece implicitly implies the girl is pregnant and the American guy wants her to abort the baby. In the whole dialogue, there are fewer explicit details that convey that fact. Only way can the reader figure out that is to analyze the metaphor of elephant or the accent of the American guy. In this part, various students give different evidence which proves that fact. In Yinjian Lin original post, she states that “That’s all we do, isn’t it – look at things and try new drinks?” (Hemingway 33) said by Jig implies they are facing a new situation, but not very clear what new thing.
While she was with Tom, Myrtle could buy the longings of her heart; possessions she could have only dreamed of when she was with Mr. Wilson. Myrtle Wilson was a ‘blue-blood’ at heart and Wilson was just not meeting her requirements. Most likely, if she had to go back in time, she would not have married him because she states: "I married him because I thought he was a gentleman…"(Fitzgerald
Alcee Arobin is a lady’s man who has many affairs with different women and intends to make Edna another one of his affairs. But Edna doesn’t let Alcee take control of the relationship; she writes him when she wants and decides when they should go out. Being in control is a reverse role for Edna, but she knows it is really who she is, and it is what she wants. Alcee plays along and lets Edna take control, and Edna discovers the satisfaction of using a man the way men usually use women. Although Edna has taken control of her own life, she is still not happy with her life because of the many different types of love she has experienced.
While her getting worse than before, it dramatically shows the procedure of being enlightened in case of rising of female powers. There are several evidences that may represent narrator’s mental instability and they seem to be originated from John’s oppressive way to treat her. The narrator is afraid that John doesn't seem to understand her state fully enough. "Personally, I believe that congenial work, with excitement and change, would do me good." (1279) She knows doing her favorite work―writing―and traveling around beautiful places may be helpful to recover her nervous hypochondria, but she just tries not to make John irritated by doing nothing.
She also states love will not pay for bills to give a room for “slumber nor a roof”. Not only is it not tangible it's an aching heartbreak roller-coaster that “rise and sink and rise and [will] sink again”(4). She sees love negatively throughout the whole poem even to the point of calling it “death” (7). She also notes the consequences of the psychological impact it leaves behind, wanting “release” (10) and to be freed from their “love for peace”(12) of mind. She ends line ten with “moaning for release,” the word moaning would be seen as a physical expression of intense sexual pleasure in today's world but this connotation would be seen oppositely; where as in this case the victim is in agonizing pain.
Critic Suzanne Birkett suggest ‘She later marries Edgar and comes to feel that she is imprisoned by society’s rules.’ As although Cathy has made a wise choice in marrying Edgar because ‘He will be rich’, her forbidden love for Heathcliff still hinders her when Heathcliff once again returns in chapter ten. “There’s no need to be frantic” Edgar “crossly” tells Cathy to calm down after she finds Heathcliff has returned. Suzanne Birkett also suggests that ‘Heathcliff feels excluded from the culture’ Northanger Abbey Isabella and Captain Tilney’s
With that, he asks her as she ever considers wanting it removed. She reply’s “To tell you the truth it’s been so often called a charm that I was simple enough to imagine it might be so.”(Hawthorn pg 230). He then asks her if he can remove it. Georgiana at first feels hurt by her husband’s request then His obsession slowly but surely becomes her obsession to the point where she even tell her husband “The attempt be made at whatever risk, danger is nothing to me; for life, while this hateful mark makes me the object of your horror and disgust, life is a burden which I would fling down with joy. Either remove this dreadful hand, or take my wretched life!
Einstein has been quoted as saying that he can unravel many of the universe’s greatest mysteries… but he still doesn’t understand women. The answer to this question is that LIKING and ATTRACTION are two completely different things. A woman needs to feel BOTH for you in order to get into a relationship with you. What’s more - it’s even very possible for a woman to have a fling with a man she doesn’t like AT ALL… based SOLELY upon the fact that he knows how to attract women, and without ANY