As the story progresses we come to understand the reason behind all of this. Unfortunately her home life is not the best as she lost her brother and her mother a victim of attempting
Ehrenreich uses imagery, diction, pathos and logos to strategize her story and make it more appealing to the readers who are higher income people wanting them to understand how difficult low income life can be. Ehrenreich thoroughly illustrates her experience at the Hearthside using a metaphor. “Picture a fat person's hell, and i don't mean a place with no food. Instead there is everything you might eat if eating had no bodily consequences….The kitchen is a cavern, a stomach leading to the lower intestine that is the garbage and dishwashing area.”
April's family, The Raintrees’, are portrayed as incapable of supporting the girls and keeping them lively. “‘... We moved from one rundown house to another… And of course, we were always on welfare’” (2). Over time, Instead of using the welfare check to meet the family's necessities, their parents would lie and tell their children that it was for medicine, damaging their relationship.
Often the mother and daughter don’t participate in as many physical activities as the males and while the mother doesn't follow all norms due to her failing health she tries her best to be a proper wife and lady at social gatherings. In the mother's absence due to illness Nancy “principally … prepared the family meals” (Capote 9) due to her being the only capable female. These things show the Clutters fitting into the nearly ideal image of a middle-class family in the
Lydia, the mother, started to feel insignificant because the house was doing everything that a wife would do. Lydia says, “This house is wife and mother now, and nursemaid. Can I compete with an African veldt?... I cannot.” In addition, the father, George, takes drugs because he feels unnecessary.
The Hadley family lives in a Happylife Home, which takes care of all household responsibilities including cooking, cleaning, and bathing. The home is so effective in it’s purpose that it leaves the parents absent from the lives of their kids. Lydia tells George, “I feel like I don’t belong here. The house is wife and mother now, and nursemaid. Can I compete with an African Veldt?”
Eleanor is the oldest in the family of two girls and three boys, all of the children live with their mother and step father Richie. Eleanor living situation is extremely stressful, the childrens basic needs are not being met. Richie is physically abusive to their mother and frequetly drunk. All the children live in terror with him. Eleanor is a creative girl who patches up her clothes with bright colors and parring up strange and creative clothing combinations, which with her classmates find weird and bully her about it.
She finally forgets about him when she finds out he is not even her biological father. The terrible family she came from is no longer her family. She now has finally cut of all of the bad family, except for Mr. ____. Later on, she finds out that Pa has died. The bond is completely broken, making way for others to replace it.
On the other hand, The Doll’s House’s Kelveys had always been outcasts and rarely spoke to others. Since they didn’t rely on other people as much and were more introverted, being made into outcasts as a family was still hard but easier to adapt to. “... she scarcely ever spoke. She went through life holding on to Lil, with a piece of Lil’s skirt screwed up in her hand. Where Lil went, Our Else followed,” (Mansfield 204).
It is shown that Eleanor’s isolation from Park is sometimes a problem because of her family’s lack of a landline. Because the book is set in the mid 80’s, we see that the story goes in rewind, starting from the beginning of the school year. Throughout Eleanor and Park, both protagonists exhibits traits that were not considered traditional for their respective genders in the 1980’s. Both Eleanor and Park are discovering their own identities and how they feel most comfortable projecting these identities in the world.
The feeling of being unwanted seems to cast an ugly shadow on Maya’s early childhood as she and her brother are constantly being shipped from one person to another. From California to Stamps to St. Louis, they can never establish a solid foothold on life as the shuffle is constant in her life. One good thing that lies on Maya and Bailey’s side is that their mother has brothers who are ruthless when it comes to anyone messing with their relatives. Maya and Bailey could depend on them to be there for them in any difficult situation and soon that would be a really good thing. They represented strength and security for Maya and Bailey, what they were lacking in their lives.
In The Haunting of Hill House, Shirley Jackson presents the theme of guilt and repression through the novel’s main protagonist Eleanor Vance in the form of the hauntings that she experiences during her time at the manor to explain the effects of familial and cultural pressure and how that can manifest into trauma and an unstable mental state. In the norm of pre-World War II society, mothers wove a thread of resilience and nurturing, serving as the true cornerstone upon which families relied through their care of the family as a whole. However, due to the war, the structure of the typical American family was soon refurbished allowing society to see a mother as a person capable of providing for her family in the workforce, thus the norm being shattered. Burning with an intense resentment towards her mother, Eleanor finds herself burdened with a haunting trace of her presence.
” Life goes on in the Lee household, and eventually Lydia finds herself a sophomore in high school. Her parents push her to take advanced, rigorous courses, and although her parents are under the impression that Lydia is a happy girl at school with lots of friends and adequate grades, they are wrong. She is actually very lonely, and her friends only use her for homework. Her grades are severely slipping as well. Since Lydia does not share these feelings with her parents, they weigh her down.
During this era women were the slaves of the house meaning they were always working in the home and providing for the family. The setting has a strong influence on the theme of the story, being oppression and neglect of women, the authors use of these stylistic The setting of Glaspell's story helps to highlight Minnie's lonely situation. While there's physical distance between all the neighbors on
Some people are naturally homewreckers. The gender roles portrayed in the short story is quite prominent; men were the works, always providing for their families, whereas the women would cook and clean. It is sad to see how these gender roles have come to tear a family apart as if did for the main characters Ann and John. Living on a secluded farm in the prairies is know to be daunting for everyone, especially when you only have your husband to rely on for company. Ann has proclaimed her loneliness to John multiple times but he never seems to clue in because he is too busy with maintaining the farm and checking in on his father who lives up the way.
