The men make her seem like she was a bad person, but in reality she was just lonely. Curley’s wife is the loneliest character in the novel. At the end of the novel you finally understand what Curley’s wife is really like and what she has bottled up inside of her. Curley’s wife is a complex character and it requires some thought to truly understand what kind of a person she is. By the end, it comes to realization that Curley’s wife is dependent, unenthusiastic, and naïve.
• The tragic hero should be great, but cannot be perfect. The reader/audience should see themselves in the tragic hero/ine. o Blanche is not a “great” or a “perfect” person. She is far from being a girl scout- at least the version of Blanche we know from the play who is sexually promiscuous, manipulative, and snobbish- not knowing much about Blanch before her arrival to New Orleans, other than the fact that she was a very delicate person. o She does have plenty of flaws as noted above, most of which stem from her insecurity as a person.
The word cripple has a tendency to make most people uncomfortable. Mairs however has grown accustomed to it and accepted it. She refuses to let it define her. Mairs is strong, assertive and declarative. Her assertion is noted when she says “I want them to see me as a tough customer”.
Carla is characterized as the perfect and beautiful success story, while Bethany is characterized as the ugly screw-up. However, neither person is happy in their respective positions. Carla is always annoyed and hung by her nails in modeling. Although it is hard to notice, Carla does get annoyed with her beauty sometimes as well. She often feels like she has no privacy, and guys constantly hassle her on the street and pressure her from the beginning of a relationship.
When Lancelot is going to see the Lady of Shallot, she knows she is stepping into dangerous waters, but still goes along with it. Her image of herself turns so bad, that the basically kills herself and unhappy and lonely woman. After she is dead, Lancelot sees her and only says that “She has a lovely face,” demonstrating that he only cared about her looks and not really her inner beauty. The Lady of Shallot is a round character because she changes throughout the short story. At the beginning, she believes in herself and who she is as a person, but she is lonely.
Bradstreet also shows her insecurity when she says, “Nor can I, like that fluent sweet tongued Greek” (129). Lee Oser believes that she lingered over the Greek’s traditions on natural beauty (194). Although Bradstreet has great dreams, she knows her limits as a woman and is left only to dream. Bradstreet soon becomes depressed and grows angry at her state in society, because of envy and her continuous dreaming. John Winthrop says, “God Almighty hath so disposed of the condition of mankind” (107).
Especially when she reminisces in the final stanza about the time she was young and beautiful, illustrating her complete lack of confidence. Nevertheless, she is still presented as a foul character who threatens the reader, with the line ‘Be terrified’. The poem also ends with the line ‘Look at me now’ which has a double entendre (double meaning). It could be read as a cry of despair or, as a threat – if you did look at Medusa you would die! This leaves the reader feeling conflicting emotions for the character, probably similar to how Medusa herself feels in the poem.
The final line “Who could not say, ‘Tis pity she’s a whore?” can be seen as directed towards her and so she is blamed for everything that has occurred. Throughout the play she is seen as quite powerful and headstrong by refusing many marriage proposals and being quite stubborn in doing so. However, she is reduced to a weak being however upon dying which is a culmination of her passions. It is perceived that women are a danger to men and to society as a whole and so Giovanni’s actions are to be blamed not on himself, but on Annabella because of the beauty she possesses. Giovanni states that Annabella’s “lips would tempt a saint” thus showing the corruption her presence inflicts upon even the supposed innocent of men.
Her "shaved head", "flaxen" hair and "tar-black face" were apparently, beautiful. Along with her "brain's exposed" and her "muscles webbing", they make the reader feel she is somehow delicate and fragile, the way she was first introduced in the poem. However the words "noose", "undernourished" and "bandage" bring a sense of gloom over the reader. The reader, like the poet, is beginning to feel bad for the girl. We realize she is being punished for adultery as well, and is called "my poor scapegoat" by the poet.
The problem with my pseudo thinking is that when it comes time for me to have a response I have no clue what was said during the conversation because the only thing I focused on was the topic of discussion. My defensive listening has put me in bad situations with many people, mostly with my wife, I lash out at people because I feel threatened and with my lack of attention I miss parts of the conversation, and that makes it that much more like I am being attacked. Everyone can increase attention by realizing its importance, avoiding the common tendency to day dream, fighting the tendency to give in to