Another flaw which Ethan has is his lack in ability to communicate with the people around him. His final flaw is that Ethan Frome does not stand up for himself and it almost leads to a dire conclusion. Ethan has had many problems throughout his whole life, but his biggest problem was that he married Zeena. From that point on his life has been completely different. From the point where Zeena came into his life to help Ethan out with his parents his life changed.
Dunstan Ramsay, the novel’s protagonist exhibits the issue of how a rough childhood can impede on relationships later on in life. Dunstan’s relationship with his mother leads him to develop three problems that arise in his dating life. The first problem is Dunstan’s trust issues; he can never fully trust a woman due to his betrayal of trust with his mother. The second problem is Dunstan’s negative depiction of sexual relations. Due to his mother’s stern moral beliefs, he does not have much interest in sexual relations and has negative views on it.
Alluding back to this quote, Wharton exposes these feelings for what they really are when Ethan's wife, Zeena, leaves him home alone with her caretaker, and cousin, Mattie for a couple days. In spite of this, Gabriel rebelled in a slightly different way. To expand, Gabriel didn't really appreciate his wife, Gretta, and often thought of leaving her. Yet, he stayed; for if he left, Gabriel would face the ultimate punishment, social isolation. Therefore, he caused turbulence with himself, because he was going against his true feelings to satisfy his lust and desire for a companion.
This problem resulted in her financial dependence. Being so introverted even caused her to drop out of business college. She had embarrassed herself by getting sick during class and refused to go back. Without having any schooling she could not support herself and had to rely on her mother and brother. Tom worked at a meaningless warehouse job and giving up all his dreams of a better life to provide for her.
She had a sick little boy who’s sickness was impossible to cure according to what the doctors at the emergency room kept saying. When Melvin meets her it changes his life and it changes hers to. She makes him feel like he can be a better man. That his problems weren’t over powering him anymore he then fell in love with her and when he did he changed a little bit. He was always a bitter old man who couldn’t stand to be around people he didn’t like anything that didn’t go his way.
Debra Goodlett states, “[Love] addiction occurs in people who have little to anchor them to life.” This type of addiction causes an increasing dependency on another person to feel gratification in their lives due to their lack of strong role models when they were growing up. This is clearly illustrated in both Catherine and Heathcliff. During Catherine’s years as a youth, she was deprived of a strong parental figure. Unfortunately, with both her parents passing away when she was just a child, Catherine was denied the opportunity to develop a positive outlook on life. Even when her father was alive, he would reveal his disappointments in Catherine, saying things to her such as “Why canst thou not always be a good lass, Cathy?” This suggests he was never proud of her and could
Kate and Catherine have similar experience, but the way they solve problems and how they communicate with people are totally different. Kate lost her parents when she was seven, then she was raised up by her brothers, who made huge scarification in their life. Early year experience makes Kate admire her brothers, at the same time, she feels disappointed and guilty to them, especially to Matt. When she teaches, she always thinks about “If things had turned out differently, it would have been Matt standing in front of them instead of me”(Part4, Chap16, Pg200), the reason for that is due to her guilt to Matt. She is very sensitive and lack of communication with people, even to Daniel, her boyfriend, she refused to share her secrets and past with him.
So the true causes of evil are her father trapping her and keeping her away from people and men so long that she literally ends up crazy. Her father was apparently a cruel old man who never wanted his daughter to find true love and move away from him. “None of the young men were quite good enough for Miss Emily and such.” (48) “So when she got to be thirty and was still single, we were not pleased exactly, but vindicated; even with insanity in the family she wouldn't have turned down all of her chances if they had really materialized.” (49, 50) These two quotes show that her father was a real evil man who never saw any man well enough for his daughter and by the time she was thirty she was still single and really did not have a clue what she had been through and that she
Having said that, which leads to the disappointment in their lives. These characters try to fix their disappointments in all the wrong ways by making the choices they believe will succeed, but end up in a slum. In the story “The Enduring Chill,” Asbury has suffered a terrible illness throughout this story that has really changed his life and who he is. Asbury tries to fix his life in all the wrong ways by going down the wrong paths, drinking unpasteurized milk, and not seeing a doctor because he feels it is not necessary. At this point, Asbury feels very disheartened in his life for the things he has done.
This may be why he has such a difficult time getting along with women. When Hamlet’s father passed away, Gertrude (Hamlet’s Mother) didn’t even dwell on the fact that her husband had just passed away. She went along and hooked up with her dead husband’s brother. Hamlet becomes furious about this happening and loses all respect for