She also experienced a lot of mental abuse from her mom, who seemed to cut her down more than anything. When it came to her relationship with Melchior, she just seemed to go with the flow. She kind of got sucked into doing things that she, possibly, may have not done if she would have had a closer, more open relationship with her mom. Wendla longs to feel loved and at one point, even confuses the physical abuse that one of her friends experiences at home as real love and begs Melchior to hit her. She was a very lost child that needed more attention on the home front.
It’s not easy for Connie to live with her mother, who constantly harps on the way Connie looks and how she doesn’t live up to her sister reputation. “If Connie’s name was mentioned it was in a disapproving tone.”[453]. Every time Connie’s mother comments anything about June’s profile, it pushed Connie unconsciously to be nothing like her sister. Mother usually complained about her about habit of looking into a mirror. The narrator states the mother’s resentment of Connie’s beauty because “her looks were gone and that was why she was always after Connie.”[451].
She feels tense as if her body is tightening up. Tina feels irritability about things that did not previously bother her, such as her teenage daughters playing loud music, squabbling, or talking on the phone too long. The lack of sleep Tina is getting because of worry is leading to her being tired all the time. The worry and irritability have left her body feeling tense as if her body is in knots.DSM Criterion 4 - Significant distress or impairment.Correlating Behavior from Case Study: Tina indicates the days since her husband's death have been miserable, and the least thing sets her off. Tina's distress is impairing her ability to sleep at night, maintain energy during the day, parent her daughters without irritability, and drive without feeling anxious, particularly
Steinbeck presents Curley’s Wife in different perspectives. The sympathy which she attracts is immense. She explains that she ‘gets lonely’ and ‘I get awful lonely’. The use of repetition emphasises her isolation and frustration at her not being able to talk to ‘nobody but Curley’ and this frustration continually surfaces as she speaks to Lennie. “And her words tumbled out in a passion of communication as though she hurried before the listener could be taken away”.
However, “Marilyn herself said “these events made me feel like a “mistake” easily abandoned” (Leaming, 2009, p. 7). These events definitely contributed to Marilyn’s emotional development and were the root cause of her abandonment issues. Her abandonment issues were likely the cause of her many divorces as she sought out acceptance and emotional attachment. With a very unstable childhood Marilyn probably had little to no moral guidance and a very unstable support system. “In addition, she was sexually abused; it is believed that she was abused by a few different men.
Being trustful though, is a characteristic Dunstan Ramsay lacks and this results in weakened relationships. Dunstan’s trust issues arise throughout his childhood with his weak relationship with his mother. Dunstan’s mother is not the typical mother who is gentle and nurturing. She is very tough and has harsh morals which affect Dunstan psychologically. This roughness of Dunstan’s mother is seen when he steals one of his mother’s eggs.
Mayella Violet Ewell is a thick bodied, fragile looking, uncivilized girl. She is nineteen years of age, and the eldest of the eight children of Bob Ewell. She is a victim of poverty and hardship, but also an immoral person, when she does not have second thoughts when grabbing Tom Ewell. The fact that she was sensitive to the routine courtesy of Atticus illustrated the kind of life she had. In the court case she appears to be uncertain of her testimony, constantly stuttering and repeating herself.
The letters that Irene sends are often full of misinterpreted information that often causes trouble, where it is none of her business. So I think as an audience we feel pity for her, as we see how lonely and devout of purpose she is, but also she is clearly a very bitter woman so perhaps we don’t feel too sorry for her. The first line of the monologue, ‘I can’t say the service was up to scratch’, sets the tone for the rest of a Lady of Letters, with Irene moving from one disappointment and source of complaint to the next at a rapid rate. Her only link to the community that she seems to mostly despise is the letters she writes; these letters are an outlet of her frustration and fear of a community she has been almost completely isolated from. Irene doesn’t realise this isolation as she thinks she has been sent a personal letter from an opticians, when in fact it is simply generated advertising.
This situation in her life makes her look down on herself and results to changing her name from Joy to Hulga, which according to her mother is an ugly name. She also comes off as someone who is naïve, rude and lacks respect. Her mother on the other hand is very patient kind and has a heart to help people hence the name Mrs. Hopewell. Mrs. Hopewell is able to withstand the constant visits from Mrs. Freeman who like her name goes by is very loose with her mouth, always talking about the shortfalls of her sick daughter, Carramae (193). Mrs. Hopewell comes off as a model character that the author uses to demonstrate ‘good country people’.
However, their communication skills differ significantly. While Winfrey values empowerment, education and family, Springer ironically promotes immorality, foul language and the breakdown of the family structure. Oprah Winfrey, daughter of a domestic helper and a barber, was born into poverty and suffered many hardships. The harsh realities she encountered included being raped at age nine, becoming pregnant at age fourteen, and being unable to bear children thereafter. Even though she faced these realities, she did not allow that to stop her.