Because of the accident that caused her to lose her son, Becca seems to be a very bitter person; she is distant from her husband, judgmental of her sister, and rude to her own mother. Becca is a very pessimistic throughout the course of the play, and she believes no one will ever understand the pain she is going through. The protagonist in the play is Becca. Out of all the characters, she is the one who struggles the most to cope with her son’s death. She refuses to attend the support group that her mother, Nat and Howie suggest: NAT.
At the end due to the inability of Abby to succeed in her liberty, she witnesses lack of strength and the fear her mother has at the Blarney Stone. In Morrison’s Sula, the mother’s emotional and nurturing detachment from the daughters through generations helps all of them create a female-self identity. This lack of nurture may be a direct result of the maternal figure's focus on survival, as Eva can't take time to show love for her children but is able to sacrifice a leg to ensure physical endurance. In her mind these acts confess her love for them while in Hanna's head, the emotional connection that she needs from her mother is not present. As Hannah becomes a mother herself and a mother being the first model of love that the children experiences, she emotionally detaches herself from Sula as she was detached from her mother.
The mother, whom is the narrator, is focusing on the how she treated her daughter and the way she was raised and looking how it has affected her in her teenager and adult life. The way her mother had not loved her like every other mother would love her child. Emily’s mother did not show her love, she did not show her the compassion and attention Emily needed to be like her mother. Emily may have a sense of humor but that could have easily been passed on to her in the short time that she had lived with her father’s family. With her father being absent from her life she did not grow up with a father figure, which could have had a big influence on her as well.
It’s not easy for Connie to live with her mother, who constantly harps on the way Connie looks and how she doesn’t live up to her sister reputation. “If Connie’s name was mentioned it was in a disapproving tone.”[453]. Every time Connie’s mother comments anything about June’s profile, it pushed Connie unconsciously to be nothing like her sister. Mother usually complained about her about habit of looking into a mirror. The narrator states the mother’s resentment of Connie’s beauty because “her looks were gone and that was why she was always after Connie.”[451].
But at the end of the day I feel sorry for her and I tend to understand why she feels the way she dose! You can’t blame the girl, for feeling depressed, she lives on a ranch where she is the only girl, her husband sees her as an object that he owns and she has no one to turn or talk to. In the book most of the characters have a negative view of her and tend to see her as trouble, but when you think about it she has the potential to get them in a lot of trouble, and she does, she cause Curley to have a broken hand and she gets Lennie in trouble for killing her, Every time, she is present in the book, she is never in a positive mood, she is always sulking or looking for Curley, I don`t actually think that there is one time in the book were she seems happy and it is when she is flirting , and even then she just gets negative reactions back! To summaries , overall i think that she is a very negative person, who has no hope of
In “A Sorrowful Woman” Godwin’s unnamed wife character, starts off in depression and only worsens as the story progresses. Faye is upset because she does not have a child and desperately wants to give one to Kai; Godwin’s unnamed wife is upset and is desperately trying to escape from the child and husband and her mother duties that she already has. Faye’s attitude towards her family is making everyone in contact with her unbearable. As Van Der Zee states “She was making life unbearable for everyone around her.” (5). It was because “Everybody worried about her.
Faulkner portrays it as “an eyesore among eyesores” (Faulkner pg. 668). The story describes the fall of a woman but really pictures the end of a way of life. While Emily was young and trim, her father refused any suitors. While she had hopes and dreams, she was denied the ability to live them out.
Sal felt guilty and responsible for her mother’s miscarriage. Sal believed her mother lost her baby because she carried her. On many occasions, Sal was the only one that could see Mrs. Winterbloom’s unhappiness in her family, since then she wondered if her mother was also unhappy in her life like Mrs. Winterbottom. She blamed herself for not paying attention to her mother’s feelings. The second main effect of abandonment that Sal experienced was confusion.
She became rebellious towards her husband and she no longer submitted to his commands. This awakening caused her to realize that, “even though her husband and her children were a part of her life, they could not posses her body and
Her family is livings life where they cannot control what could happen to them because they don’t have money to fix these problems nor do they have the power to stop them. “The strife has lasted too young and had been too painful for me to call him back to continue it.” (pg. 100) This quote is fulfilled with grief and sorrow because Nathan and Rukmani’s last child, Kuti dies. At this point in the story, death is being caused because they don’t have enough money to support their children or feed them. Markandaya is showing fear by Rukmani not being able to support her children therefore they will die off if nothing is done.