Mrs. Kobylinski Essay 22 February 2015 Mathilde Compared To Della In The “Gift of the Magi” author O.Henry writes about Della a woman who sacrifices something to make her husband happy. In contrast “the Necklace” Author Guy de maurassart tells a story about Mathilde Loisel a selfish woman whose husband cared so much about her he was willing to do anything to make her happy. A similar is they both are poor and have little money. However Della tries to make the most of her money and Mathilda spends all the money they have. Della is selfless and caring about her money but Mathilda is selfish and self-centered with her money.
He always paid for everything they did with the money he made working very hard. He proved to her that he was trustworthy by saying, “ Janie, Ah hope God may kill me, if Ah’m lyin’.”(pg.109) Tea Cake is going to the farthest extent of trying to prove to Janie he is a good person. Janie’s confidence in Tea Cake highly increases because of his words. She learned that Tea Cake was not in the relationship for the money. Tea Cake had the best effect on Janie.
Women are very loving, caring, and angelic but why do people portray them as weak? We are very conservative about our body, which explains why we stand the way we stand or talk the way we talk. It clarifies why we come off very timid and closed in because of society and the first impression is very crucial. “Wash the white clothes on Monday and put them on the stone heap; wash the colors on Tuesday and put them on the clothes line to dry…” (Kincaid 525) . In the story “Girl” is explains how the daughter is raised in the 70’s and the responsibilities and duties that is expected of her being the girl in the family.
When Janie meets Tea Cake, a poor and adventurous worker, she knows that he is seen as an undesirable and unsuitable match for her: “Janie, everybody’s talkin’ bout how Tea Cake is draggin you round tuh places you ain’t used tuh” (112). Knowing that people saw Tea Cake as an incompatible match did not stop Janie from loving him. Janie understood societies view of him, but did not allow this to stop her from trying to find true love. Through Tea Cake, Janie learned that real love is feeling appreciated and truly desired, and that her past relationships were not love: “Tea Cake love me in blue, so Ah wears it. Jody ain’t never in his life picked out no color for me”(112).
People like Mr. Summers, Mr. Graves and Mr. Martin being in charge of the lottery suggests that they are above everyone, which is not a characteristic of a democracy. What does Mrs. Delacroix’s extra-large stone say about the loyalty and logic in “the Lottery”? What does the large stone represent? How might she justify the killing of Tessie? Mrs. Delacroix, obviously a friend and neighbor of Tessie, who just moments before [the stoning] was laughing with Tessie about her forgetfulness, and reassuring her that she was fine for her tardiness.
In Kate Chopin’s short story, “A Pair of Silk Stockings” the protagonist, a caring mother, is the unexpected possessor of fifteen dollars. She planned on spending it on her children, but temptation causes her to give into her desires. The story shows that, sometimes people give into temptation to fulfill desires and forget about their responsibilities. The story begins with Mrs. Sommers becoming the unexpected possessor of fifteen dollars and deciding what to do with the money. “The question of investment was one that occupied her greatly,” because “she did not wish to act hastily to do anything she might afterward regret.” Mrs. Sommers finally decides to, “buy so and so many yards of percale for new shirt waists for the boys and Janie and Mag…Mag should have another gown…she would get caps for the boys and sailor-hats for the girls.” But Mrs. Sommers is impulsive.
'Curley's wife is a very complex character because she is presented in different personalities at different chapters and in this chapter we see that she desires freedom and fame. Steinbeck presents her in such way that or opinion of her changes through out the novel, first we see her as a flirt then we see her presented in a horrible racist personality and now Steinbeck presents her as Innocent. Steinbeck did this because at this chapter where she dies it's like he wants us to feel sympathy for her because not that she is dead her problems are gone and there is not need for attentions because now she looks relaxed laying down on the hay. The language used in this chapter is very descriptive especially the part when Curley's wife dies, this might be because at the time
‘Debut’ reveals the issues of race and how society reacts to those with darker skin. It does so in a very confronting way, which could only possible through the innocence of the mother-daughter relationship, ‘Judy’ and ‘Mrs Simmons’. Mrs Simmons constantly reminds Judy of the burden of the colour of their skin and how it means Judy must perform at her very best at all times in order to just fit in and be accepted by the other girls in her town. “…Those other girls can afford to be careless, maybe, but you can’t. You’re gonna be the darkest, poorest one there.” The pressure society has put Mrs Simmons feeling the need to make Judy’s night of the ball feel like a ‘battle’ demonstrates the real effects that racism has.
The way in which Swift expresses the irrationality and greed of the wealthy English landowners is through humor. Despite the horrific premise being proposed, one can hardly maintain a straight face during the reading of some of the “modest” proposals offered by the narrator like the following regarding why women would be better mothers if they knew they would receive income from the sale of their children for food, “It would increase the care and tenderness of mothers toward their children, when they were sure of settlement for life to the poor babes, providing in some sort by the public, to their annual profit instead of expense. We should see an honest emulation among the married women, which of them could bring the fattest child to market” (Swift). Therefore, Swift’s satire teaches while it entertains regarding how ludicrous are the supposedly rational social theories of the greedy status- quo in English society. At the center of Swift’s article, he is suggesting that the English and wealthy landowners of Ireland are causing the poverty and misery of the
First of all, What is poverty? Poverty is the state of being extremely poor. In our world today, it is a blessing if one is not bothered by this kind of problem. This issue is evident in Kimsey's story from the documentary "Iam a girl" by Rebeccachoochio. Through codes and conventions such as symbolism, music, camera shots and angles, the viewers will feel sympathy to the character's situation.