Have you ever struggled with emotions or your own thoughts? In the short story "Martha, Martha" Zadie Smith uses Imagery, Symbolism, and Figurative Language to demonstrate the theme of Dealing with emotional turmoil. Emotional turmoil is when you have conflicting emotions. Martha, Martha is a short story by Zadie Smith and the story talks about a woman who is looking to create a better life for herself and for her family. In the story, she is looking for a home for herself and her family. She had to leave her child and husband because they couldn't go with her. Other characters in the story include Pam, Martha, and Amelia. In "Martha Martha", Zadie Smith uses imagery to show how Martha sees the world and how it affects her emotions. In the text, Martha says. Everything laid out like a promise, delayed for summer. Bleached porches, dead gardens, naked trees, a sky blue clapboard house, its rose pink neighbor. "I can imagine a cloudy summer that's calm and peaceful but also very humid and quiet. Which can cause emotional turmoil, because sometimes when you feel sad you feel like you're watching …show more content…
For example, the men froze and looked at their gloves and found themselves ridiculous. They did not actually freeze and could not move. They just chose not to move because they found themselves embarrassed. That could be used as emotional turmoil because she saw someone having fun and a good time, unlike her because she is always upset with herself. Another example could be "Thought you'd been eaten by a bear". She didn't really think she was eaten by a bear. She just said that because she heard yelling. This could be used as emotional turmoil because it shows that someone actually cares about her, which she hasn't felt in a while. In conclusion, Zadie Smith uses figurative language to show how people care about her and she is not