All she has to talk to is ‘nobody but Curley’. Her dreadful frustration at being like this is made obvious when she is speaking to Lennie in the barn. Steinbeck writes; ‘And then her words tumbled out in a passion of communication as though she hurried before her listener could be taken away.’ The word ‘tumbled’ is used to suggest how desperately she needs to talk to someone. The word ‘passion’ is used to suggest the strong powerful need that she has to communicate how she feels to Lennie and it also stresses her impulsive nature. So far in ‘Of Mice and Men’ Curley’s wife has been presented in a negative way, in section 5 Steinbeck shows another side of her which has compassion and caring
“Lenina was left to face the horrors of Malpais unaided” (111). For Lenina to see woman breast feeding their babies and families gathered around to watch, it just made her more disgusted. In the State Lenina lives in, families and emotions like love and relationships are prohibited and prevented. In order for Lenina to be happy she depends on her soma to help her get her through the day without any emotions that will give her pain and sorrow. However, because she forgot her soma, she had to suffer through the ceremony and all the horrible thoughts that came to her
This “fluttered anxious” Parson’s daughter lacking experience also tends to be vulnerable as she fails to have the necessary prowess to deal with matters. For example, the expulsion of Miles from school - the governess had to revert to consulting Mrs Grose, thsssssse and educated housekeeper as she perhaps lacked the experience to deal with such matters. The governess is also excessively assertive in her description of Flora “a vision of whose angelic beauty” which reflects that she may also
“And then she gets to the part about we all poor and live in the slums which I don’t feature” (3). Sylvia is the protagonist of the story, her resistance and fear of learning shows just how blinded the children are to their situation. Sylvia is considered a very stubborn character, she tries to run from the fact that Ms Moore’s messages made any since at all. “What I want to know is….I never talk to her, I won’t give the bitch that satisfaction” (39). Ms Moore shows the children things they are not use to.
They would never grow, just like her. Elisa is shattered by the heartless manner in which the Tinker had treated her “glimmer of hope” by not even taking the trouble to hide the flowers. In this instance Elisa truly recognizes her place in society. Elisa now sadly realizes that she can never fulfill her wish to be anything more than what she is already, a housewife with a hobby. She realizes that she would just have to except her life as it is.
Do the characters get what they deserve in the End? During the novella of mice and men Curley’s wife is alienated, spoken behind her back, called vile names and singled out from the rest of the ranch, since she is the only woman there. Throughout the novella she is constantly giving hints on how lonely she is even in her own marriage, by the end of the book she is accidentally killed and freed from the life she so dearly hated. However, another view on her death could be negative since when she dies she does not get the life she deserves for being kept in a place she doesn’t want to stay or even she does deserve her death since she is vile for not committing to her marriage vows by being a coquette. Curley’s wife is clearly a very unhappy
The mother doesn’t understand the daughter’s life, and this failure to understand leads to her to distrust her daughter. Dee sees her new persona as liberating, whereas the mother sees it as a rejection of her family and her origins. Dee indeed rejects her family by changing her name to “Wangero”, “she’s dead”, she responded when asked “what happen to Dee” (28). Later, Dee tried to get stuff from the house like the bench, the butter chunk, just as decorative objects but her mother sees those “objects” as a symbol, as a living proof of her family, her tradition. The mother wants her daughter to see those precious objects that way too.
She became furious and she cursed the goddesses. The goddesses knew that she wouldn’t learn her lesson so they sent two other goddesses in disguise having a rough life, needing assistants to carry supplies back to their cottage. Deena ran across the goddesses in disguise, asking for help from Deena for her assistants to carry supplies Deena refused. She gave the rudest look and the rudest advice saying “ I they aren’t able to carry their own home supplies to their cottage that is only 20 feet away then don’t carry anything at all “. When the head of goddesses saw what Deena did.
Daisy has the wrong ideas because she has already been corrupted by the power of materialism. She does not care about herself; so, when she says that the best thing a girl can be is a fool, it is because when she looks at herself she does not see happiness in her and by being a fool she will forget about her emptiness and look at the material goods as if they will fill her emptiness. She also shows carelessness by not worrying about her daughter. She only cares about herself and how things will affect her, putting her daughter to the side. Not only does Daisy care about how things will benefit her, but her mind is also overwhelmed by the power of money, thus, losing her
He refuses to change it making her blame herself for not being able to cope with the “dull” and “flamboyant” yellow wallpaper. She even tries to find solutions to her problem, like changing rooms or taking the wallpaper down, but John said no. As a turning point for the story, Gilman then shows the other side of a woman’s perspective. She finally overcomes her conformist ways when she says at the end of the story, “I’ve got out at last,” said I, “in spite of you and Jane. And