“If you just stayed with him, Kept an eye on him, loved him, he wouldn’t get into trouble.’ It’s because of Beryl Harley gets into strife. She doesn’t care what he does and she doesn’t even look out for him or keep him out of trouble, she seems to dump the load of Carl. But other characters like Skips, Sarah and Kerry are held back from experiencing a rite of passage. Skips was prevented from for filling his career because of Carl’s grandfather. Kerry hasn’t completed her transition in being a mother.
:… He used to stay in the house with Norma Jean.. Now he is home alone most of the time.” It is clear that she doesn’t want to spend time with him like they use to. They have changed, but mainly Norma Jean. She keeps moving in to the futuer while Loery is stuck in the past. Norma Jean has just outgrown him. “He feels awkward, like a boy on a date with an older girl.” Their realtionship end with the veiw of a graveyard and Noram Jean walking through it, and Leroy trying go after her.
Even if Joe was not there waiting for her, the change was bound to do her good” (Hurston, 32). In her second marriage to Joe, Jeannie finally begins to stand up for herself and find her voice. Her husband for years stifled and belittled her. Joe believed that his wife should not speak publicly, which he scolded her for several times during their marriage. When she couldn’t find a receipt for a shipment Joe made the comment.
And then I won’t hear from him 2 for another year” (Ng-Chan 40). Since they live far away from each other, she writes him letters about the currents things happening in her life, but he never responds. It makes her feel like she is not a priority in his life and putting forth an effort to talk
She does not want John to go to his father's house to check on him because she does not want to be left alone in the house when there is a snowstorm is taking place outside. Ann feels neglected and isolated "Seven years a farmer's wife - it's about time o was used to staying alone" (Ross 289). When John leaves feelings of isolation come over Ann and the feeling of isolation is mirrored in the story by the snowstorm that traps her in the house. Ann's feeling of isolation is also that she is completely alone in her house and the closest person is two hours away and she knows she can't leave her house because if she did she wouldn't make it. As the storm grows in strength so does Ann's sense of isolation 'The silence now seemed more intense than ever, seemed to have reached a pitch when it faintly moaned" (Ross 293).
Starkfield’s winters are capable of trapping its citizens because of their ability to emotionally burden individuals to the point that they lose their dreams in their struggle to survive. If Starkfield’s winters were more mild, Ethan might have had enough determination to leave Starkfield. Similarly, Ethan asks Zeena to stay, for he does not want to spend another winter in silence and isolation. Despite that, Ethan regrets marrying Zeena, and wonders what would have happened instead if his mother had died in spring. When he saw her preparing to go away, he was seized with an unreasoning dread of being left alone on the farm; and … he had asked her to
Holden lacks of romance. Holden says throught out the book he wants to give Jane a buzz, but he ends up not calling her. He keeps on thinking about her, developing feelings for Jane but does nothing about it. “I started toying with the idea, while I keep standing there, of giving old Jane a buzz, I mean calling her long distance at B.M., where she went instead of calling up her mother to find out when she was coming home. You weren’t suppose to call students up later at night, but I had it all figured out.
He gets in a cab and asks the cab driver where the ducks in Central Park go when the lagoon freezes, but his question annoys the driver. Holden has the cab driver take him to the Edmont Hotel, where he checks himself in. After seeing some unusual sights from his hotel room window, Holden calls a woman called Faith Cavendish, someone who he has
This place, this house doesn’t hold good memories for me. Constant order and ruling, my father governing every dimension of my life, until it’s the way he sees fit. In that aspect, leaving the house behind is of no worry to me, but it’s the town itself that I am afraid to leave behind. I am familiar with every inch of this place and I am intrigued by it, even though my father says it’s a ‘dead end town for dead end people’. Saying that before my mother passed would get him nothing but grief from her, but that time has long faded from his memory.
Keller is trying not to let his past haunt him, but he can’t escape from it. Keller’s wife, Kate, remains hopeful that Larry is still alive and is desperate for Keller to believe he is coming back too ‘Believe with me, Joe. I can’t stand all alone.’ However Keller does not have any hope whatsoever. He dislikes realism and is far from optimistic. Also, when Frank asks about the tree, Keller responds with ‘The wind must’ve got it last night.