But she could not love Romeo back because she was a nun, and that is against her religion. Marcuteo persuades Romeo to go out to an all Capulet party, where he meets his future wife, Juliet. Romeo goes to an all Capulet party and meets Juliet. Little does he know, Juliet is a Capulet. Romeo and Juliet’s family despises one another.
He cheats on her, and when she finds out, it seems he could not care less. But Daisy cannot even leave him because she is too scared, and has no one to run to. Through Daisy’s situation, Fitzgerald is expressing that even when people are treated horribly, they still rely on wealth and high status. Even in society today, we see people deteriorating because of their goals to meet society’s standards. The neglect from her husband causes Daisy to wilt, much like the flower if it were treated harshly.
In Kate Chopin Three short stories “A Respectable Women” “The Kiss” and “The Story of an Hour” the leading women defy their daily roles of Purity, Domesticity and Submissiveness. At the turn of the twentieth century women were expected by society to be pure. Purity back then was one of the most important roles of women. They had to Guard it with their life if not thet weren’t a women and are then unfit to get married. It was said that the greatest night of their lifes is when they marry and lose their virginity to their beloved husband.
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.
With the ironic twist at the end, the author, all in all, perhaps wanted to put forward the idea that vanity ruins us all. “The Necklace” began with the description of Mathilde’s misery that “she suffered ceaselessly, feeling herself born for all the delicacies and all the luxuries”. Her vanity was clearly portrayed through her desire for expensive goods to accentuate her beauty more.Her desire for expensive materials, here vanity, made her unhappy and never satisfied with the life that her husband provided her. Never acknowledging her husband’s love for her, she denounced his immense appreciation for her ordinary cooking and his endeavor to manage an invitation to the Minister’s party. Mathilde directly exposed her vanity when she fell all over herself to show off how pretty both she and the necklace were, and she lost herself in the fleeting moment at the minister’s party.She suddenly came back to the world only after losing the necklace.
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.
At the Netherfield ball Austen shows how Mrs Bennet’s overly direct, loud comments are an embarrassment to her husband and daughters as she loudly tells the guests on her table her mission to marry off her daughters. Although her manners are rather intolerable she herself believes she has good manners and her behaviour is acceptable. The social etiquette of the early nineteenth century was very different from todays as in it was expected for women in the Bennet’s social scale to better their position in life by marrying someone of a higher class and with money, women had no real choice of their marriage partner themselves it was usually their parents had to choose the right suitor as demonstrated by Mrs Bennet. Elizabeth found her mother rather blush making, “Her mother would talk of her views in the same intelligible tone. Elizabeth blushed and blushed again with same vexation”.
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
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.
Compare and Contrast Guy de Maupassant ‘The Necklace’ and Raymond Carver ‘Neighbours’ In The Necklace and Neighbours, both couples are envious of their neighbours or friends lives. In the Necklace, Mathilde Loisel is jealous of the luxuries of high class persons; she is particularly jealous of her friend Jeanne Forrestier that after visiting her, she feels depressed, pg. 5, lines 9-12, “She had a rich friend, a comrade from convent days, whom she did not want to see anymore because she suffered s much when she returned home. She would weep for the entire day afterward with sorrow, regret, despair and misery.” Similarly, in Neighbours both Bill and Arlene Miller are jealous of the life that their neighbours, Harriet and Jim Stone live; the going out to dinner, entertaining at home, and the travelling because of Jim’s work. Also, in both stories, something goes wrong.