She wants her sons father to rekindle their relationship and for them to be a family. She also wants to start taking classes at a community college but her mother or boyfriend are not supportive of her doing so. Jenna does not trust leaving her son with her boyfriend because he really does not spend any time with him or seem to be concerned with him. Her boyfriend only is concerned with Jenna taking care of his needs by cleaning and cooking. Jenna’s mother and her get into arguments over Jenna asking her mother to watch her son.
Louise was workaholic who ran the family meat business, she supervised the kids and expected them to put in long hours slopping pigs and looking after other animals, even on school days. Louise was the type of woman who did not take care of her hygiene, nor did she wear clean clothes. She also allowed the farm animals to roam freely throughout the house, she never even bothered to clean up after them. Louise believed that her daughter,
She and her husband, John Proctor, are sitting down for dinner. In this scene it is made quite obvious how their relationship is different from that of a normal married couple. They are making small talk about things such as seeding the farm and the weather. Some of Arthur Miller’s stage directions make it seem as though Elizabeth tries to impress her husband, in simple ways such as dinner. For example, one line of stage directions says, “She sits and watches him taste it.” (52) She made a rabbit for dinner and was watching her husband eat it to see his reaction.
Rosaleen’s love of Lilly became apparent to the latter when she was a small child in South Carolina. Rosaleen had gotten Lilly “ an Easter dyed biddy from the Sylvan Mercantile. Lilly is confronted by her abusive father ,Terrence Ray , and Rosaleen “planted her self between Lilly and her father in a display of loves and courage, stirring the though in Lilly's mind that” she loves me”(pgs 11,12). Rosaleen doesn't display freely her love for Lilly, always saying that she” ain't gonna care” if Lilly were to
She is one of eight children, although one brother died when he was 2 years old. 3. She was a farm girl and one memory she shared was when she was in 2nd grade she was tasked with herding up the cows and bringing them in for milking and her father was
Only George returned to the plantation. When George was a baby he had a disease that was called whooping cough. A whooping cough is a really bad cough which left George very, very sickly and weak. George couldn’t do what all the other slaves could do. George’s jobs were things like sewing, cooking, and although he couldn’t do what all the other slaves could do he loved to work in the garden.
She describes her old town “a dusty little Muskogee County nowhere called Braggs.”(155) she knew her and the family’s lives had changed one morning during breakfast. When they are sitting down for breakfast her father hears a loud noise and starts shooting at a crow. His mother is shocked, and runs outside screaming “Pat, you might ought to check, but I don’t think they do that here!”(155) to her father’s surprise, the neighborhood they moved in did not think of shooting crows as a “national pastime” (155). For this reason, Sarah likes her new Bozeman house. When Sarah was
A Bible salesman comes to the door, claiming his name is Manly Pointer (! ), and manages to get invited to dinner. He and Hulga make a date to have a picnic together the next day. That night Hulga imagines with her superior mind and education that she's in control and that she will seduce him. However, the next day by the time they have climbed into a barn loft, Manly manages to persuade her to take off her glasses and then her wooden
Rose is first introduced in the novel while she is collecting Dolly at a pub, at the age of 14 she refuses to do it anymore. Roses sense of strength starts to manifest at this ripe age as well as a growing hate for Dolly. Rose however tries to accept her metrical roles because of her Father, Sam. Rose loves her father dearly and takes up the cleaning and cooking of the household, ‘but she would always burnt the chops’. When Rose meets Oriel Lamb she senses the fierce strength inside her and Rose starts to demonstrate the same qualities and stands up for herself.
Florence Jackson works in Laura’s house as a caretaker who cooks and cleans. Florence Jackson and her family help Laura’s family with the duties of owning a farm. Florence takes care of the McAllan family in the house while the men of her family are sharecroppers. At this time in