Maggie starts off in the story as having very low self-esteem, Walker describes her as, “Walking with chin on her chest, eyes on ground, feet in shuffle, ever since the fire that burned the house to the ground.” This has caused her to feel unattractive and not as confident compared to her sister. Being the younger sister, I feel she is looked down upon and not respected for who she really is. Maggie has not experienced as much of life as Dee, Yet, she seems to value it more. Maggie does not have any wishes to change her way of life, she has simply remained uneducated like her mother, but remains proud of who she is and what she stands for. Maggie has a close relationship with her mom; they seem to share a lot of the same views.
This is the case for Emily Dickinson and her poetry, as well as two very different texts, ‘Walking Naked’ by Alyssa Brugman and the play ‘Stolen’ by Jane Harrison. They all show the desire to belong by several individuals, and all express the same issues that connect them, even though their stories are all vastly dissimilar to each other. Emily Dickinson was born in 1830 and ever since adolescence; she felt a lack of connection with the human social world. Her unusual connection with nature however had become her outlet of her lack of belonging in society. Her poetry very much reflects this, and she advises the audience subtly in her writing that it is not society’s fault that she cannot live in the regular social world, but she just needs something that society doesn’t give her.
The play is set in a simply furnished room, which indicates at her very plain and aimless life. When she is not expressing her opinions on everything, she becomes a more isolated version of herself before her mother died. She has no friends, and the idea of camaraderie between her and anyone else is a far off possibility. ‘My mother knew everybody on this street’ Her mother talked to a lot of people, and therefore we can guess Irene erstwhile used to be more social and talked to people, however now, it is probably too painful to talk to anyone who knew her mother as it would bring back memories. Irene is henceforth now avoided by the community, and known for being crazy, as she tells us about going to the doctor’s and getting pills he has prescribed for her.
The loneliness of Curley’s wife is portrayed in many different ways throughout the book, using both the words of characters and Steinbeck’s narrations. Even at the beginning of the book, a sense of the loneliness is displayed through the setting of Soledad, meaning solitude, and plays a perfect backdrop for the loneliness of the characters. By setting the story in Soledad, Steinbeck demonstrates the terrible loneliness that all of the characters are feeling, including Curley’s wife. The ironic thing about her loneliness is that she is the only character in the book that has a partner or husband, but still comes across as the most solitary one of them all. She shows a lot of anger and sarcasm when she speaks about Curley, “swell guy ain’t
She is never referred to by her name; she is only known as “ Curley’s Wife “ which emphasises her character’s sense of loneliness. Alone in the hostile and suspicious world of the novel she cherishes dreams which satisfy her need for attention – “Could have been in the movies and had pictures took of me “ It seems that only in death is she freed from her terrible burden of loneliness – “And
“The Church of No Reason” In her short story, “The Church of No Reason”, Andrea Barrett illustrates the cascade effects of depression, sorrow and betrayal. Her use of symbolism with characterization in this story is interesting showing how a mother gave up hope on life. Describing how depression Lead her to a book she believed gave her more than just answers, as she said “The point is that there has to be something to life besides working and raising you”. Her depression grew so deep that she shunned her most important responsibly, her family. Andrea uniquely described the mother throughout the story as a person that was loosing so much, so quickly.
Katelyn Marks Mrs. Huerter English 1302 08, February 2013 Pigeon Women The poem the “Pigeon Women” is a Narrative Poem. The poet is telling a story on what he see’s everyday in front of the library. One of the major details in this poem is the imagery the poet creates. All the images he goes into detail with really helped me put the poem together. For instance, the way he described her walking in a very conscious way, told me that she was an elderly lady who may be very brittle or ill. Also, he makes it seem like she is lonely as well, by the way he describes her relationship with the pigeons and the way she depends on them.
“We all go through the same things-it’s all just a different kind of the same thing!” (194). Mrs. Hale feels connected to Minnie as an oppressed woman and believes that by helping her, she is helping all women. Mrs. Hale has a lot of guilt for not having been a better friend to Minnie and for not seeing her more often. She continually voices her deep regret for refusing to visit Minnie. “The picture of that girl, the fact that she had lived neighbor to that girl for twenty years, and had let her die for lack of life, was suddenly more than [Mrs. Hale] could bear” (194).
The Jilting of Granny Weatherall,” is a short story by Katherine Anne Porter, this story describes the last thoughts, feelings, and memories of an elderly woman. Granny Weatherall’s life literally “flashes” before her eyes,. Granny Weatherall has been in some way deceived or disappointed in every love relationship of her life. Her past lover George, husband John, daughter Cornelia, and God all did an injustice by what Porter refers to as “jilting.” All throughout her life, Granny gained her strength by the people that she felt jilted by. A cycle of wrongdoing caused Granny to be a mixture of strength, bitterness, and ultimate fear as she faces her last moments in life.
When the narrator views the woman, she speculates on the type of life that she has lived. She imagines that the woman is one of “the lonely ones” whom she believes that are found everywhere in society. (Paragraph 13) She envisions the woman’s life as being one of solitude, one in which everyone who has ever known her has left her, whether that be her kids who “prefer not to visit” or her colleagues whom she “lost to time and the new young employees.” (Paragraph 14) However narrator doesn’t know this for sure, since she is merely speculating and we as the audience cannot be sure if the elderly woman’s life is as described in the essay. The author of the essay also includes a seemingly unimportant detail about how The Box Man and the elderly woman complete the tasks which they are described as doing when the narrator views them. The elderly woman “drags it [her meal] out as long as possible” while also stating that she does not have anything to do after