But when Mme Loisel, says hello to her old friend she is not recognized by how run down she looks. This shows that lying does not do any good but makes it worse. Wealth makes some people greedy for going or doing something. Loisel is so worried about not having the proper attire for going to a fancy event with a lot of wealthy people. So she asks for money to go buy a nice evening dress because she does not have one so she offers to give the letter to someone else.
She did not treat her children with the attention that every child needs, so Paul was destined to seek out her approval. At the beginning of the story, Paul’s family seems to be in distraught. His mother felt as though her children were “thrust upon her, and she could not love them.” Paul’s mother had cared so much about the appearance of her family, which had driven Paul crazy seeking her personal attention. Paul could hear whispers through the house, “there must be more money, there must be more money.” After Paul’s talk with his mother, he learns a formula for love. His mother teaches him that Luck equals Money, which in turn equals Love.
The two heroines being contrasted are Emily Grierson and Alice Kingsleigh. Emily Grierson truly wanted to get married and meet men, but while her father was alive, she was not permitted to socialize and meet men. “We remembered all the young men her father had driven away…” (Faulkner 4) Due to her father’s overprotectiveness, she did not know how to flirt with men, so when a fellow by the name of Homer came by, she fell in love with him knowing that he was not the marrying type. Instead of using her charms to win him over, she lost all confidence once her
When the story went back and told how her and her husband met and came to marry it told an awful lot about who Edna was. They were not totally in love and the author stated, “The violent opposition of her father and sister Margaret to Edna marrying a Catholic” (Chopin. 1899) played a part in them getting married. Edna enjoyed the love Leonce showered upon her, but married out of spite in a sense. Edna was described as a “woman not given to confidences.” (Chopin, 1899) This was not an uncommon emotion nor were many of the other feelings she expressed all over the book.
He agreed to let her create her own models in his fashion house. Vionnet worked there for five years, and finally in 1912, she opened her own business in France only to have it close two years later due to World War I. By 1919, Vionnet got the chance to open up a new fashion house in a better location where it became known as “the Temple of Fashion.” Her house employed over one thousand seamstresses and became one the most well-known and respected fashion houses of the time. Vionnet made her employees feel comfortable with many luxuries and benefits. Forced to close one last time because of war in 1939, Vionnet had her last Winter and Summer collections shown.
She would basically day-dream about being rich and wealthy. Mathilde crave for richness caused her pain and downfall in her life. Mathilde is also very manipulative; she would always manipulate her husband to get him to buy things for her. Mathilde was invited to a formal dinner but she didn’t have any dress for the occasion. Her husband was willing to give her money to get a dress and Mathilde didn’t hesitate to take it.
There must be more money According to his mother, the families lack of money all stems from their tendency to be unlucky - his father is unlucky at making money and she is unlucky for marrying him. Paul asserts that he is different because God, apparently speaking through his rocking horse, told him so. He sets out to prove this to his mother while keeping his method strictly confidential. Only his uncle and the gardener are aware that he is posting bets on horse races. After Paul becomes successful, he set the impossible expectation for himself of retaining that luck and he finds he is unable to stop gambling, once started.
Emily Brontë by her poetic genius style achieved this success in her Gothic novel, Wuthering Heights. This study presents how the novelist shows her characters and how her main female character is considered as the opposite of traditional way of Gothic in presenting women, it also show how wealth and procuring money can change an innocent young lad to a brutal tyrant. To clarify Gender and its characteristics, theories and views of a major feminist critic, Judith Butler, is used in this study. As a conclusion the study shows that, it is the society with its patriarchal standards which defines the social roles based on sex differences for men and women; as Gothic shows how men are powerful and in possession of every aspects of women’s lives, and how they rules women, but Gender studies proves these traditional conventions are wrong and that sex and physics have nothing to do with the social roles. Keywords: Gender, representation, Female, Gothic, Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights.
This shows Janie standing up for herself against Logan because she feels that she doesn’t have to work if she doesn’t want to. She says that he is only mad that she doesn’t worship him and his land and that he is upset that she is even saying anything to him about it in the first place. Logan probably didn’t expect her to stand up for herself like that. After that, she finished making the breakfast, walked out the door, and left to meet Joe Starks, who she had met a couple of days before. During the beginning of Janie’s twenty year marriage to Joe, she loved his appeal, ambition, and sense of style.
Her short stories and novels were never really popular and thought to be banned because back then her topics about women, marriage, sexual desire, and suicide. After Kate Chopin’s death Daniel Rankin the first biography of her and after then did people start to recognize her talent and how far ahead she was with her writing. Her whole life Chopin searched for female spiritual emancipation, which she found and expressed in her writings. Independence is something everyone wants, no one likes to have to follow rules and feel like there owned. Louise was grieving and at the time she felt a joy from the feeling of independence, but she was afraid to show it for a while because she knows it’s not right to feel like that.