A Lamp At Noon “And always the wind, the creak of walls, the wild lipless wailing through the loft. Until at last he stood there, staring into the livid face before him, it seemed that this scream of wind was a cry from her parched and frantic lips. He knew it couldn’t be, he knew that she was safe within the house, but still the wind persisted as a woman’s cry. The cry of a woman with eyes like those that watched him through the dark. Eyes that were mad now- lips that even as they cried still pleaded, “See, Paul- I stand like this all day.
Hulga, now having only one leg, manages to crawl her way to a window in the barn loft, to see Manley run away with her precious leg. Hulga feels horrible, losing both her leg and lover. She begins to yell for help, hoping someone, anyone, might hear her calls. After a while, she begins to realize that there’s no hope that someone might come to save her. Depression sets in on Hulga, she begins to cry, to think of her family.
All she has to talk to is ‘nobody but Curley’. Her dreadful frustration at being like this is made obvious when she is speaking to Lennie in the barn. Steinbeck writes; ‘And then her words tumbled out in a passion of communication as though she hurried before her listener could be taken away.’ The word ‘tumbled’ is used to suggest how desperately she needs to talk to someone. The word ‘passion’ is used to suggest the strong powerful need that she has to communicate how she feels to Lennie and it also stresses her impulsive nature. So far in ‘Of Mice and Men’ Curley’s wife has been presented in a negative way, in section 5 Steinbeck shows another side of her which has compassion and caring
In my opinion he is not showing any emotions towards her but it all seems calm however is not what it seems. When Stephen hears Isabelle and Azaire, Isabelle is pleading towards him showing she has no impact over him and he can do whatever he likes as when he was beating her up. 'It turned into a gasp which, because of its sudden move into a higher register, was clearly one of pain.' Stephen can tell an unease between their relationship and knows something is not right about their relationship therefore questions Isabelle about it after he has heard what just happened. She is desperate and you can tell she is very upset.
He drank to make his problems go away and he had meaningless sex to make himself feel better , but it didn’t! Curly would come for him soon but he didn't know when , he could only bide his time. As george walked down the street he noticed that it was surprisingly empty, he walked home alone with the Curly constantly on his mind. George was in the barn cleaning out the horses stables, He just couldn’t stop looking over his shoulder , he was so worried that it made him slip on the wet surface of the stable floor, he hit his head on one of the stables gates and blacked out. He awoke to a dark, barely lit room , he tried to stand up but his hands and feet were tied to the chair he was sitting on.”WHERE AM I ?
That’s when I walked in and I saw Miss Hilly run to her room. Miss Hilly sat there crying and saying she didn’t know what to do. Miss Hilly has always cared about Mister Jeffrey. She was scared she was going to lose him. She was upset because this fight shouldn’t have happened like this.
if she’d ha’ died, Ethan might ha’ lived; and the way they are now, I don’t see’s there’s much difference between the Fromes up at the farm and the Fromes down in the graveyard; ’cept that down there they’re all quiet, and the women have got to hold their tongues.” (Wharton 157) Ethan’s life is actually worse after the smash-up than before. Now that both women are under the same roof, they scream, curse and shout at each other and poor Ethan has to go through with it day after day. Ethan’s inner feelings are also affected, such as him feeling trapped, his lack of courage and his isolation; each being
Overwhelmed by vulnerability, “[Ethan] saw her [Zeena] preparing to go away”. In contemplation of this abandonment, he almost instinctively “was seized with an unreasoning dread of being left alone” (Wharton 70). This fear of lonesomeness filters into every aspect of Ethan's life, altering each area drastically. Furthermore, Ethan, despite his apparent hatred for his wife, relies on her companionship to function. On the oppose side of the marital spectrum, Zeena regularly professes her hypochondria to her husband.
When someone cannot socialize or encounter the same surroundings, they begin to act very talkative and get aggravated easily. For example, when the narrator says, “I get unreasonable angry at John sometimes,” (2). The narrator gets aggravated at everything quickly, such as her husband, the house, her brother’s sister, and that yellow wallpaper. Especially when she says, “I never saw a worse paper in my life,” (3). She is really aggravated with being trapped in the room but projected her feelings toward the
Ellen expresses fear for what is around her, such as the baby not being given enough food, the storm breaking down their house, being isolated in her house, and having an argument with her husband, Paul. Coming from the story, the personification "Demented wind fled keening past the house; a wail through the eaves that died every minute or two” is solid, and confidential proof that the atmosphere, and mood in "The Lamp at Noon" was tense. Just from this example in the story, it gives Ellen a feeling of being unsafe, causing her to argue with Paul, and trying to leave her home to try to start a new