How are the following incidents from the past also reflected in the present actions: (a) Dee's hatred of the old house; (b) Dee's ability "to stare down any disaster"; (c) Maggie's burns from the fire; (d) the mother's having been "hooked in the side" while milking a cow; (e) Dee's refusal to accept a quilt wwhen she went away to college? The mother worked hard to provide for Dee and Maggie. She wasn't a dainty woman. She was always protective over Maggie. The mother and Maggie were closer than either of them were to Dee.
The land proved hard on their bodies, hearts, and minds. Blunts isolation followed her thru the lingering horror of the blizzard, to a empty one room school house, to her invisible high school years, and finally to a lonely never wanted marriage. As a young child Blunt saw the clear yet defined gender roles that were set in stone in her Montana community. It was apparent in her parent’s relationship. She saw how hard her mother worked inside doing her wifely chores, and on the ranch being able to work just as hard as any man, but still having to stay in a ranch wife’s place.
The mother may be the birth mother and be related by blood but she sure doesn’t show any love toward her handicapped daughter that she abandoned. The dull and tasteless tone/style of the story express the love between Linda and her adopted and birth family. The tone never really changes; it always stays in a slightly sad and depressing language. Through out the whole paper there is very little description. When Linda is talking about how clean her mother Betty tried the kids and how dirty the dad always got them, she just says exactly that and nothing more; “Betty was always trying to keep us clean, and Albert was always getting us
In Sinclair Ross’ short story The Lamp at Noon, Ross expresses the gender roles impact on family life and social dynamics. It is the struggle to fulfil these societal-dictated norms that Ross problematizes in The Lamp at Noon by examining the relationship between Paul and his wife Ellen. It is the gender roles of the time that both Ellen and Paul adopt that ultimately leads the death of their baby and the loss of his Ellen’s sanity. Paul is ignorant of Ellen’s feelings of lonesomeness and extreme depression that the farm life causes her because he is so focused and adamant on efficiently providing for his wife and infant child the only way he knows how: tilling the land acre by acre, and year after year. Given the social context of the 1930’s, this was a common lifestyle for couples living in Prairie Provinces.
He then comes home to cook, clean, and tend to the boy. Her internal conflict eventually leads to the climax when she completely isolates herself in a separate room, only coming out when the husband and the boy are away. While most women want families, she despises hers. In this room, she could imagine she was anywhere but where she actually was. She would dream of being a virgin, locked away in a tower, reiterating the fact she did not want to be a mother or a wife and instead she would be in a fairy tale.
Her life on a ranch in the 1930s, during the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl is even worse because she is the only woman. Her life is surrounded my men who give her no respect. Throughout the story she is disrespected by them and after a series of events unfold, she ends up caught in a situation that she cannot escape. Curley’s wife is introduced into the book by the men as petty, cruel, and conceited. The men make her seem like she was a bad person, but in reality she was just lonely.
I assume that she wants a divorce from her husband but because of the role that society has placed on her, but she is unable to get one because she is very dependent on him. It sounds to me that she is jealous of her male friend who is looking for another wife. It was him and his situation that she was thinking of that brought her to the conclusion that she herself wants a wife. Her situation leads me to believe that during this time in history women were not meant to show signs of aggression, jealousy, or anger because it was a mans world. In Brady’s eyes a wife is a basically a slave at home who cannot have a life of her own.
She baked bread for her father and attended her ailing mother day by day. Actually, Emily was busy in her daily life. Therefore, “death” in this poem seems indicated her love affection, it is also related to her love experiences in her life. “Death” seems equal to “Love” in this poem. On one hand, Dickinson experienced unforgettable love but all to die in the end.
Her marriage was an arranged marriage and the young man was a clerk working for the Minister of Education. “She suffered from the poverty of her dwelling, from the worn walls, the abraded chairs, the ugliness of the stuffs” (Clugman, 2010) represents how she perceived her status. Her concern was she was not living in the royal manner she believed she was born to do. Her husband lifted “the cover of the tureen” (Clugman, 2010) and all her mind could do was wander to places where she had exquisite meals and service. He was quite satisfied with her cooking, but she was never satisfied.
Her husband left early on in Emily’s life and her mother was forced to leave her with friends or send her to day care. “…and I did not know then what I know now- the fatigue of the long day, and the lacerations of group life in the kinds of nurseries that are only parking places for children” (Olsen 707). Emily got nowhere near the amount of attention she needed. Maggie, on the other hand, was always with her mother. Maggie’s mother was also older and better suited to be a mother because she was older and more experienced however, Maggie’s father also left the family.