She's a mean, angry woman who wants Luther to follow in her footsteps. In addition to being a mean old lady , she owns a string of slum properties, and half way houses for mentally ill men. She has a few hired goons, and she has Luther to do her dirty work, such as taking care of old men in diapers, and cleaning out rat infested apartments after she evicts the tenants. But on top of all this, Luther is a good , clean kid, who is able to hope and dream. He wants to focus on doing well in school, winning his third science fair medal in a row, and eventually going to college (rather than run his mother's shady properties) His ultimate goal is to be America's best known, best loved, best paid philosopher, but his greatest challenge to success is his mother trying to control his future.
In the case of Connie’s mother, she rejected Connie’s attitudes because it often went against the patriarchal society's code of conduct. For example, when Connie glanced into a mirror, her mother always scolds: “Stop gawking at yourself, who are you? You think you’re so pretty?” (Oates 270). However, her mother treated June differently, by praising June all the time, “June did this, June did that, she saved money and helped clean the house and cooked” (Oates 271). June is another victim of patriarchal oppression just like Connie’s mother, a typical “house wife”.
The DeRosier’s were also the ones who shattered her dreams of a perfect family by saying “We take you in because your parents don’t want you"(35). The DeRosier’s left April with a shame of her background and an even deeper shame for her parents. Even though the DeRosier’s did so much bad for April and her identity, they still did some good for her. They made such an horrible environment but April stayed strong and grew as a person. She even said “I could let the DeRosier’s suck out my dignity for now and I could pretend they had me where they wanted me.
Answer: Before knowing about the marriage, the Nurse was very supportive. After the announcement, the Nurse supported the marriage between Paris and Juliet, she did this because she thought that Romeo was dead and wasn’t important anymore. Because of this Juliet started to dislike the Nurse more and more and the readers took her side in that. (7 points) Score 3. As Act III ends, Juliet heads off to Friar Laurence's cell.
Mammy, Laila’s mother, has the upper hand over her father, Babi, who just listens as he is getting “fussed” at. The two show that their marriage is no longer good and mammy shows he dislike for him. Laila is held at gunpoint. Chapter 17 The gun turns out to be a water gun. Laila describes the sometimey relationship she has with her mother; Laila expresses her emotions about Mammy and how she truly feels when it comes to living in the house and Mammy’s opinion of her.
She is angry that Sara is avoiding her father, so she writes a nasty letter to the principal of the school where Sara is teaching, Hugo Seelig, in an effort to give her a bad reputation. Instead, the principal sympathizes with Sara and feels Mrs. Feinstein is desperate and pathetic. Sara is relieved and eventually she and Hugo, who is also a Polish-American, start dating. Sara feels she has left her old life completely behind
On the oppose side of the marital spectrum, Zeena regularly professes her hypochondria to her husband. However, in response to the sledding accident, she “seemed to be raised right up just when the call came to her” (Wharton 131). This ironic “miracle” proves Zeena’s addiction to martyrdom, emotionally dependent on first her illnesses, then to her vocational role. Although professedly unhappy, she relies on her marriage for a sense of purpose. In an examination of the constancies, it seems as though both wife and husband, woman and man, are reliant upon both one another and their marriage to function
Instead of graciously accepting whatever she could get, Phoenix coldly reminds the lady that “five pennies is a nickel” (Welty, 649). Anyone who was just a sad, poor little old lady concerned only with the health of her sick grandchild would graciously accept whatever she could get and then be on her way back. Phoenix, however, doesn’t do this. In fact, it is almost scary how quickly she snaps out of a remorseful trance while she remembers her grandson to this blunt and almost rude state, only to quickly regress back to grandmother of the year, but, again, it is all an act to get what she’s really after. Many people say that the title is one of the most important parts of a story.
Body paragraph worksheet The gender roles in both the pieces increase marital problems for the married couples. In The Yellow Wallpaper, Jane tells her husband that she is sick and she wants to leave, but he doesn’t believe that she is sick. Even though John, her husband, is a physician, he doesn’t understand her feelings and how she feels. She doesn’t want to tell anybody about her husband not believing her, so she feels relief after writing, “You see he does not believe I am sick! And what can one do?”(Gilman 1).Gilman is using gender roles when she says that the husband John doesn’t believe that the narrator is severely sick and she could not do anything to make him believe her.
In the story The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins, the main character portrays a “true woman” who submissive, loyal, and faithful. She would be considered part of the cult of true womanhood. Though did all these things for her husband, John, he treated her as if she did not have any say or opinion at all, not even on her own health. John was certainly convinced that she was sick and had a nervous condition. It can be inferred that John made her obtain this nervous condition because being part of the cult of true womanhood could take a strain on one.