This man treats his wife like the scum of the earth but at the end justice will be served. Delia, a skinny, nice hardworking lady, who has been washing clothes all her life, is fed up with the way her husband treats her. She has to have the clothes washed at a certain time for the white people she washes for. Every time Sykes comes home he criticizes how she keeps washing white people’s clothes as a result they argue about it constantly. He threatens to put his hands on her if she doesn’t stop washing the clothes in the house.
“Both Blanche’s drinking and her endless hot baths suggest that she is attempting to wash away her past and emerge through a sort of watery purgatory.” Stanley, Stella’s husband, does not really like Blanche and accuses her of being crazy, which is an accurate description. Blanche even agrees when stating, “I know I fib a good deal. After all, a woman's charm is 50% illusion.” Early in the book Blanche starts to have an attraction to Mitch, Stanley’s friend. He comforts her when there was an outburst during a poker game with
Her parents never realized that after every meal Rachel would secretly go to the bathroom upstairs and throw up everything she had eaten. Her father would beat her up and treat her like trash and her mother would just stand there and not say a word because she was weak and always did as Rachel’s dad said. In her kindergarten class, Rachel treated all the other little girls with rudeness, anger, and jealousy towards anyone who was better than her. She often spent her days in the principal’s office because of her strong character and misbehaviors. Rachel grew up, went through her dating stage, and then finally met a wonderful man that she could not picture herself without; a caring, positive, supportive husband that goes by the name of Tim.
Sandy’s mother even once called her a “Whale of flesh” (Senna 22). But, she did not care. Her attitude was not how a woman should “act” in the eyes of society. She would fight with her husband Deck all the time. They would say malicious words back and forth to
2. Why did Holden think the woman who cried through the movie was a phony? Even though the woman was supposedly a kindhearted woman for crying at the sensitive parts, she was strict and unlenient with her son who asked to go to the bathroom. Chapter 19 1. Why did Holden get mad at Luce for calling his (Luce’s) old girlfriend the “Whore of New Hampshire”?
She had an abusive husband named Sykes. He was violent, cruel and a flirt. The setting was in Eatonville, Florida during the 1920’s and depression time. Delia was a wash woman. “Ah done told you time and again to keep them white folks’ cloths outa dis house,” this meant Delia washed the white peoples clothing for money.
I don't care what she says and what she does. I seen 'em poison before, but I never see not piece of jail bait worse than her. You leave her be. "That Curley's wife does not love her husband and is merely concerned with her own pleasure and welfare is revealed in her conversation with Lennie in Chapter 5 in which she reveals that she married Curley to get away from the little town in which she lived:Well, I wasn't gonna stay no place where I couldn't get nowhere or make something of myself, an' where they stole your letters....So I married Curley. Met him out to the Riverside Dance Palace that same night....Well, I ain't told this to nobody before...I don' like Curley...So, Curley's wife deserves little sympathy, although her death is tragic.
The book I am the Messenger, by Marcus Zusak, is a perfect example of how empathy can help people become caring. In this book, there is a woman who constantly gets raped by her husband. The main character, Ed, dislikes this woman because she’s snobby, up until he realizes that she uses her attitude as a defense mechanism against people she meets on the street out of fear that they’ll harm her. In the book Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O’Dell, the main character gets stranded on an island all alone. At first, she is very hurt that the people of her tribe left her, but then she realizes that they couldn’t have waited for her, or they would’ve missed their opportunity at a new life.
‘No one cares about me’ this makes the reader feel sorry for her as nobody cares about her and nobody wants to be with her. At Curley’s wife death the reader feels for her as when Lennie is touching her hair and gets harder and harder it says ‘her eyes were wild with terror’ which makes the reader feel bad as she only wanted somebody to talk to and when she finds someone to talk to she gets killed for just being nice and letting Lennie feel her hair. Curley has something to do with his wife wanting attention as he goes out to town every Saturday with the men and they go to the brothel while she sits at home and isn’t even allowed out just to the town. Curley also sort of traps Curley’s wife by not letting her speak to the men but his allowed to do what he wants. She only gets attention from Curley and she doesn’t even get much attention from him so wants to speak to others to make her feel less
Tyler Perry’s For Colored Girls (2010) I chose a very powerful yet heartbreaking scene from the movie For Colored Girls. This scene is about a mother (Crystal) who is in a very abusive relationship with an alcoholic ex-marine who can’t find a job coming back from the war. She works full time trying to pay the rent and take care of her two children she had with Bo (the Marine.) Bo is angry at the world and takes his frustrations out on Crystal. Scene---Bo has been drinking when Crystal stops by to pick something up for her boss that she’d forgotten about.