Which ultimately lead the women to hide critical evidence from the men because they wouldn’t understand anyways. The setting, characters, and clues all contribute to the theme of gender roles of men and women in this short story. A big contributor of the theme of “A Jury of her Peers” is the setting in which the story takes place. Being that the story takes place in the early nineteen hundreds, the women are not seen as helpful. The women are kept in their domain, the kitchen, throughout the entire story because that is where men believed the women should be.
Once in home again his wife serves him food with a resentful face, meaning she was hurt, which adds to my opinion in why we are not prepared to listen to the truth and it can hurt as much as lying, because she thought her cooking skills were good and now his husband sincerely tells her that in fact she can’t cook for good, leaving her sad, angry and
While ,in Algernon's case, he is always receiving food from the women around him, rather than providing for his guests .This fact also observably proves that the men’s weakness in the high society. He also is aware of how mismatched his food consumption makes him in high society. He even comes out and tells Jack later in the play that "When I am in trouble, food is the only thing that consoles me”. It was not common for a man to speak of flaws, fears, or feelings at all .In our traditional thought, a man should be iron enough to bear all the problems he came across. While in this play, the food becomes a key point to help us
He first appears as "sitting disconsolate" among the Suitors in his home but he jumps up "at once" when he sees her waiting and immediately offers her some food. He says that she can tell him what brought her there after she has had some food, showing that making sure the guest is happy and fed is more important than knowing who they are. Telemachus also drew up a chair "away from the...Suitors" as their bad behaviour may have offended Athene and, therefore would not have made her happy, breaching Xenia. This shows the importance of Xenia as even though Telemachus is feeling sad and worrying about his father, he still makes sure that the guest is okay and indulged, even though he is not, showing that the guest's feelings are more important than the feelings of the host. When Telemachus visits Nestor on Pylos, he is shown good Xenia by Nestor and his people.
Also Stanley and Blanches conflict is very noticeable to the readers, the conflict between them is a big part of the play. There is noticeable sexual tension between them, an example of this is when Stella is in the bathroom, and Stanley takes of his shirt in order to be comfortable, where Blanche seems to be ok with this, but it comes across to the audience later on in the play, that she was uncomfortable being there. Blanche comes across as a ‘man-eater’ because an important characteristic, that’s Blanche seems to not be able to talk to men in a non-sexual way, even men that it is inappropriate to talk to like that, such as Stanley her brother in law. This is a contradiction to where she comes from, because she has been brought up around the old south standards, which is not to have sex until married, and Blanche shows little refection to this. When Stanley finds out the real Blanche he exposes her to
This suspense is tension, which is the aim of miller at this particular point in the story. In the scene after the monologue when the “family” are talking about oranges and lemons Rodolfo corrects Eddie and the stage directions say that Eddie “resents his instruction” and Eddie comes out with an outburst of “I know lemons are green, for Christ’s sake!” This tension is a surprise, designed by Miller to shock you. Beatrice has to “divert” their attention by talking to Marco about his wife. Later Rodolfo says that it is stricter in his town and yet again Eddie doesn’t like being corrected by Rodolfo and has to get up and pace to calm himself down. This makes the audience tense because by making himself taller than Rodolfo, he is therefore more masculine and is stronger so he could get violent while he is stood up.
Her marriage was an arranged marriage and the young man was a clerk working for the Minister of Education. “She suffered from the poverty of her dwelling, from the worn walls, the abraded chairs, the ugliness of the stuffs” (Clugman, 2010) represents how she perceived her status. Her concern was she was not living in the royal manner she believed she was born to do. Her husband lifted “the cover of the tureen” (Clugman, 2010) and all her mind could do was wander to places where she had exquisite meals and service. He was quite satisfied with her cooking, but she was never satisfied.
Sometimes I don’t talk to them and they keep trying to talk to me it’s like they don’t have a live and they try to make other people worse. Also they are too scared to come talk to me face to face >.<. That is why they irritate me. The final and last thing that irritates me the most are people who take forever to order when am in line. First reason is that I might be hungry.
Amanda is known to be tragic and nagging about manners. Amanda instructs mostly to Tom of how to eat, when to eat, what to eat, how to quit smoking, how to improve himself, what to read, and so forth. Amanda doesn’t appreciate the greatness of an established creative genius of Tom’s own creative behaviors. Amanda sees that Tom is different from her and that he doesn’t think like her. Amanda rejects the things which Tom stands for.
She wants him to share her passions, but he does not understand them. ”Hope's face is streaked with tears; she waits – she is waiting – for her father to glance at her, to notice. But he doesn't. He heaves himself from his chair with no comment and goes into the kitchen”. Mr. Brunty can even be insensitive and mock her, by saying, for example: ”This poor asshole Jones!