However a feeling inside him made him go to see the dead body. He took the mask off the dead body, and saw his brother’s face. In “The Necklace”; Mme Loisel a lady in the low class was invited with her husband who worked as a clerk in the Ministry of Education to the Ministerial evening reception. Mme Loisel did not afford to buy a dress however her husband gave her 400 francs to buy one. Mme Loisel also needed some jewelry to wear; she had a fiend called Mme Forestier who was a women from a higher class than her.
Feeling successful, Sara returns home to find her mother fatally ill. After her mother's death, her father remarries only to find his new wife, Mrs. Feinstein, is a gold-digger after his late wife's lodge money. Sara and her sisters, still angry over their father's treatment of them, become enraged at his quick marriage after their mother's death and refuse to help him when his new wife spends all his money and refuses to work. Sara goes back to New York and finds a teaching job. Mrs. Feinstein is not satisfied with Reb's money and wants more from his daughters. 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.
“It came into my head that I cannot run away. I am who I am wherever I am”. Catherine, Called Birdy by Karen Cushman is about a 14 year old girl who's father, the lord, wants to marry her off to a rich old man with lots of land. Catherine wants to just get away from the lady life and escape, but is always held in place by her pregnant mother, and her always nagging nurse/maid Morwenna. In Catherine, Called Birdy, many women gave Birdy advice but she never really listenened to them, but when she did, she made a decision that changed her life forever.
Mama finally got the check in the mail for the $10,000. Instead of her giving the money to Walter she puts a down payment on a house for them, in a white neighborhood across town. When Walter finds out about what Mama did this badly upsets him. Now Walter has no hope, he thinks everything is going downhill. This caused Walter to stop going to work and go on a three-day drinking binge.
Therefore there s no way Daisy doesn’t know about it; but she’s not going to leave the rich life she has for an affair (very materialistic) And that’s what she says to Nick when they mention her daughter; by saying “I hope she’ll be a fool, a beautiful little fool, that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool” she means that being an idiot, marrying a rich guy, and being rich will make you happy. Then after this awkward dinner, Nicks gets home and notice his neighbor Jay Gatsby, a handsome young man, standing on his wide lawn, with his arms stretched out to the sea. He appears to be reaching for a faraway green light, which may mark the end of a dock between West Egg and East
Molly Kellogg Dr. Neary English 150 2/16/15 The poem, “The Blue Dress,” by Sharon Olds, tells the story of a young lady who appears to venerate her father but is terribly disillusioned when she realizes he is not the man she had envisioned. On her fourteenth birthday, she receives a lovely, perfectly fitting, blue dress from Hink’s, an upscale store featuring attractive women’s clothing and lingerie. She is thrilled, believing the dress has been a gift from her father. A year later, however, when her mother divulges that her father “had not picked out the dress” at all, she is crushed. In search of love and approval from her father, the speaker remembers choosing to live in a world of fantasy rather than accept her father’s lie and the reality that she was unloved.
He married Daisy with sole interest in her social status and family name. He obviously doesn’t love her if he is having random affairs all the time. So Tom and Daisy basically just have a marriage based on money and social status so they really should just be business partners. Personally, I don’t understand why Nick tolerates anyone other than Gatsby. He goes to all of their dinners and parties when he really doesn’t like any of them.
Mrs. Gibbs confides in Mrs. Webb that she will be obtaining $350 dollars from selling an antique piece of furniture and that she would love to spend the money to either send Dr. Gibbs on a vacation or use it for she and her husband to travel to Paris. She has always dreamed of going to Paris but knows that if Dr. Gibbs had his way he would only want to go and see the civil war sites, as they always spend their vacations. It is made clear in this scene that men make call the decisions when it comes to money, even if it is the woman’s money. Mrs. Gibbs never gets to see Paris; she leaves the money to her son in her will. Another scene that shows how men make all the financial decisions is when George Gibbs asks for a raise in his allowance and his father is the one who must permit this, even though he originally asked his mother.
Dee’s perspective Have you ever met a person, who did not care about anyone but themselves? In Alice Walker’s short story of “Everyday Use” the character Dee is a very self centered person .She expresses this in many different ways.She wanted everything thats not hers. When she graduated from high school she took one of mother’s suits made a dress out of it, and after that she wanted someone to buy some pumps/heels to match with it. Whenever she came to visit she would rub her intelligence in. Once her and her husband arrived at mother’s house, Maggie and Dee started arguing about who take the quilt that been in the family for a very long time.
In the story a gift of the magi, one whole paragraph is dedicated to the main character- Della’s- worry about if her husband will still find her attractive, even though she cut off and sold her hair to buy him a Christmas gift. She curls it and takes the time to “reflect in the mirror, long, carefully.” After she cries and explains everything to Jim when he comes home from a rough day at work, he reply’s in a calm” I don't think there's anything in the way of a haircut or a shave or a shampoo that could make me like my girl any less.” Men really don’t care much about little things like that. It’s a gender role created by social norm for girls to be pretty and impress the opposite sex. Also in the story it shows another great example of a stereotype commonly pushed on young women. When Jim gets home she always has dinner cooking.