Sister, the narrator of “Why I Live at the P.O. is a very resentful, bitter and jealous character in this short story. She has many reasons to act as she does. Her family consists of four people who do not seem to be very sane. Her mother seems to be constantly taking up for her sister, Stella-Rondo.
Leola caused Dunstan to experience jealousy and pity. Diana is also controlling and manipulative, like Dunstan’s mother, which is why he leaves her. Through Diana, the reader sees how much Dunstan’s mother has affected his life with women. Liesl made Dunstan realize that he felt no emotion, and she caused him to feel it again. She brought him out of the isolation his mother put him in.
She is introduced as a temptress or “looker” but later reveals a deeper character in the novel. Curley’s wife is powerless due to her gender. In the book, women are portrayed as troublemakers and Curley’s wife is defiantly included in this portrayal. She is described as a “tart”, “bitch”, and a “tramp”. The workers speak of her, basically, as Curley’s problem that needs to stay at home away from the other workers.
Both women are contrasting representations of Hedda. From the opening of the play her [Hedda’s] relationship with Aunt Julie is a strained one. Hedda views Aunt Julie as a symbol of what she herself loathes and could at the same time could quite easily become. Aunt Julie epitomises the idea of the domestic, dutiful woman with no true purpose of her own. She instead finds her purpose through the lives of the male characters and the arguably mediocre success that Tessman has had.
Through a modern perception on the playwright’s female characters, women can be seen as worthless, sexually corrupt indiviudals. Ophelia, often through the words of the men around her, can be partiicuarly perceived in this way. This is evident, with her father, Polonius when he says to Claudius, “At such a time, I loose my daughter to him; Be you and I behind an arras then; Mark the encounter…” (2.2.176-178) Polonius’ language here suggests that Ophelia is more of an animal than his daughter, and he as her father shows her little respect. This reading of Ophelia is also apparent through Hamlet’s language, describing her in unpleasant context or as a “dead dog”(2.2.81). He treats her with little regard and believes that she is a “breeder of maggot” This is also evident when Hamlet says to her, “ I say we will have no more marriages.
Julian Reed Prof. Paul Spitale English 112 In the story “The Yellow Wallpaper” Gilman describes a woman that seems to be completely insane. She somehow does not fit society’s ideal of a woman. The narrator's relationship with her husband is very strained, and ultimately determined by the narrator's husband. Her husband always treated her like a little child. He did not allow her to express herself, and kept her locked away to a restricted room.
This gives readers a sharpened awareness of the complexity of family relationships in King Lear and their impact on the portrayal of Goneril and Ginny. Ginny is the reserved quiet daughter who, up until the very end of the novel, bends to her father's tyranny. As a result of her father's incestuous ways, and his constant verbal degradation and abuse of her and her sisters, Ginny takes on a passive attitude. It is only when awful incidents of her past are brought to light that she finally takes a stand. In this way we do not receive a very “likeable” picture of Ginny throughout A Thousand Acres.
Different from other women, who obey men and follow orders, Shelley represents Safie as a rebellious female figure in an attempt to convey her hostility toward sexism. Safie’s strength is shown when she disregards her father and escape to join Felix instead. Because of Safie’s mutinous characteristic, Safie is able to criticize a male dominant society where women’s rights are often neglected. Furthermore, Shelley argues that confinement is nauseating because it is a form of oppression toward women. Victor’s two years of alienation between himself and society during his process of creating the monster parallel the period of a woman’s confinement before labor.
Leiva 1 Lesly Leiva Professor Harmon American Literature May 10,2015 The Silent Feminist Women have always been dehumanized in many ways since the beginning of time, seen as objects and for one whole purpose, to reproduce. Men started to get threatened by women intellectuality and started to make activities like writing into a man duty. Men started to see women with these problems, they looked for any reason to put down these women even more. Another excuse to show how weak woman really “are”, and instead of helping these mothers they made it worse. Instead of supporting women's advancement they suppressed it maybe not directly but by criticizing and not supporting the women who tried to speak out.
In “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” Mrs. Mitty can come across as being controlling and overbearing. Many people believe that he does so much daydreaming to escape his wife’s abuse. “Walter Mitty's withdrawal is symptomatic of anger and misanthropy” (Kaufman, 1994). There is also the point of view that she does it because she cares. She is constantly having to wake him from his daydreams and watching out for him.