In the story a gift of the magi, one whole paragraph is dedicated to the main character- Della’s- worry about if her husband will still find her attractive, even though she cut off and sold her hair to buy him a Christmas gift. She curls it and takes the time to “reflect in the mirror, long, carefully.” After she cries and explains everything to Jim when he comes home from a rough day at work, he reply’s in a calm” I don't think there's anything in the way of a haircut or a shave or a shampoo that could make me like my girl any less.” Men really don’t care much about little things like that. It’s a gender role created by social norm for girls to be pretty and impress the opposite sex. Also in the story it shows another great example of a stereotype commonly pushed on young women. When Jim gets home she always has dinner cooking.
For example of page 74, it quotes that Daisy receives ‘a string on pearls’ the day before her wedding to Tom but also on the same say she also get a letter from her former lover Gatsby, gets drunk after reading it and has a moment where she hesitates about marrying Tom but after she sobers up she ‘squeezed it up in a wet ball……And walked out of the room, the pearls around her neck and the incident was over’ as it also quotes on pages 74 and 75. This shows that she just wasn’t to forget about Gatsby and marry Tom for they money because of the fact that she puts the pearls around her neck, continues to marry Tom even
The information stated above is relevant and supports my essay because in the novel I am reading, Janie is forced to marry a man at an extremely young age. Janies Nanny is one to blame, as she is forcing this upon young Jamie because her mother (Leaft) was not successful and disappointed her loved ones, and the Nannie thinks she is doing her good, setting her up for a happy life. Woman in Jainie's day were expected to act a certain way, and were thus not treated
Sara Goldfarb, an amphetamine addict who gained her addiction while taking weight-loss amphetamines, in an attempt to fit into an old red dress before she would appear on a game show. Harry, her son, warns her of the possibility of developing amphetamine dependence, which she ignores in favor of losing weight. To her, the weight loss pills were a symbol of the possibility of a better appearance. It forces the viewer to sympathise with Sara by showing them exactly what she thinks and feels throughout the development of her addiction. The same can be said for the other three addicts followed during the plot of the movie: Harry and his girlfriend Marion view drug dealing as a way to gain enough money to open a fashion store for Marion, while Tyrone, a friend of Harry's, sees it as a way to make his mother proud by escaping the streets.
* Janie has love for Joe but not so much after the year’s progress because of domestic abuse Joe does toward Janie to better himself and his status/reputation. Tea Cake * Tea Cake loves Janie for who she is and not her money. * Tea Cake protects Janie from everything and wants her to be happy with him. * “ She wished she had slipped off that cow-tail and drowned then and there and been done. But to kill her Tea Cake was too much to bear… Tea Cake… had to die for loving her.”(Hurston
When Myrtle finds out about this she gets mad at George. She thought that George wasn’t a good husband just because he borrowed a suit for their wedding. She thought that George was a bad husband because he couldn’t afford a material object. The materialism comes in when Myrtle says “I thought he knew something about breeding, but he wasn’t fit to lick my shoe.” (pg34) Materialism is shown again but this time in a voice. When Tom, Jordan, Daisy, Nick and Gatsby were all standing around discussing what they should bring to the city.
She finds the courage to rise up above societies expectation that she stay in this marriage, and walks out: “S’posin’ Ah wuz to run off and leave yuh sometime” (30). When Janie runs off with Jody, she knows that society will not approve, but she does it anyways because she is after that feeling of lust and desire that she experienced under the pear tree. Jody makes Janie feel good, at least at first. He spoils her with the finest treats and he treats her like a true lady. Also, he was perceived as “socially acceptable” by most everyone; he was a prominent businessman and Governor.
The quote shows that even though that Madame Loisel was poor, she and her husband bought Madame Forestier a new necklace to replace the old one. You see the real character in Madame Loisel when she goes through conflict. Madame Loisel changed after that conflict and from there on had better character. In To Kill a Mockingbird, Jem’s character is changed whenever Atticus is confronted by Mr. Cunningham and his “gang”. Jem was currently in a hiding place watching the action whenever he ran over to Atticus when it started getting tense.
When Newman says, “I probably cried when the bride kissed her parents” and that she is “eating the entrée I checked off months ago” I feel she doesn’t just like weddings but wants one of her own. I believe that these are common feelings for any girl at a wedding, especially those that want their own. Newman claims her reasons for not being married are “all only partly true and shot through with contradiction” (61). A contradiction she has with marriage is what she explains it to be, “marriage is about handing the woman off, like a baton, from her father to her husband” (61). Men are continually thinking about owning the greatest “possessions” (wives, money, etc.)
In an instance of foreshadowing, she thinking, “Oh well, whatever goes over the Devil’s back, is got to come under his belly”(39) which means that she knows eventually Skyes will get what’s coming to him. Delia sets out to do her washing and passes by a group of men sitting at a store. The tone and focus of “Sweat” by Zora Neale Hurston changes for a while as the men comment on how pretty Delia used to be and how it’s such a shame that she’s beaten so often and lost her good looks. They talk about Syke’s behavior with the Bertha woman and generally frown upon him, with one saying, “There oughter be a law about him… He ain’t fit tuh carry guts tuh a bear.”(31) Clearly the whole town seems to have a negative reaction against Sykes. On her way back, Delia sees Sykes out front of Bertha’s telling her that he will buy her whatever she wants.