The Analysis of Mrs. Jerome Franklin Washington III Mrs. Jerome Franklin Washington III is the main protagonist in “Her Sweet Jerome”. In the short story by Alice Walker, she is a very special individual and a woman of many traits. Mrs. Washington was described as “a big awkward woman, with bones and hard rubbery flesh. Her short arms ended in ham hands, and her neck was a squat roll of fat that protruded behind her head as a big bump. Her skin was rough and puffy, with plump mole like freckles down her cheeks”. She was originally portrayed as an obsessed, mad, insane individual, and her clearly character does not change throughout the story. The story begins with Mrs. Washington hurling herself into the closet and flinging out clothes that she had purchased for her husband, only after going through his pockets. Unfortunately she does not find what she was …show more content…
Washington became obsessed with finding her husband’s imaginary lover. She even went as far as going to ‘whorehouses and to prayer meetings, through parks, outside the city limits, all while buying axes and pistols and knives of all descriptions’. She searched so much that her body began to change, her appearance go unkempt, and her hygiene became atrocious. She walked around town asking random women of all colors “You been messing with my Jerome?” while putting them in the headlock and pulling a knife to their throat all before they could answer, while avoiding being caught by the police or being seen by anyone in the act of being a vigilante. She once stalked Jerome to see where he was having his “workshops” because she suspect foul play. After drinking one night, she kicked the door down and burst in to the house. The women in the room she suspected of being her husband’s suitors, were sitting in one corner of the room and the men were sitting in the other corner. Feelings ashamed and bewildered she stormed
author gives the reader the feeling as if the reader was there, in Washington. The
8) Through analytical narration, Dana’s commentary shines light on the role of power in corrupting its hosts. Back to nineteenth century Maryland, Dana lands in the middle of a southern field, and witnesses a fight between Rufus and Isaac, the slave husband of Rufus’s childhood best friend and free woman, Alice. Evidently spurred from Rufus’s attempt to rape Alice, the two ferociously brawled it out much to the dismay of by standing Alice. As she conversed with Alice, she wondered, “If Rufus could turn so quickly on a life-long friend, how long would it take him to turn on me?” Despite Rufus’s attempt of rape, he truly loved Alice and only violated her because it was his only way to obtain her. Dana had already recognized this, but did
The contrast between how She sees herself and how the rest of the world sees Her can create extreme emotional strain; add on the fact that She hails from the early 1900s and it becomes evident that, though her mental construct is not necessarily prepared to understand the full breach against Her, She is still capable of some iota of realization. The discrimination encountered by a female during this time period is great and unceasing.
Bly, she starts noticing the appearances of a woman and a man. When the governess confides
The beginning of the short story starts with the narrator's description of her mental state and the perception of her family members towards her condition. The narrator talks about, despite how she feels, her family, especially her physician husband John, did not take her condition seriously. She even mentions that John being
Shirley Jackson’s stories often had a woman as the central character who was in search of a more important life other than the conventional wife and mother. These characters however were often chastised for their refusal to conform to a woman’s traditional way of life. Much like her characters, throughout Shirley Jackson’s life, she also rejected the idea of fitting into society's perception of a woman's role.
The narrator describes the scene when she feels the weight of George jilting her and how she all most collapsed “there was the freshly polished floor with the green rug on it” (Porter 81). Green symbolizes inexperience. Granny has never felt pain like this until this day and becomes unsure on how to deal with it. Granny never faces her memories so she has inexperience with coping with them. The narrator explains her feelings more about being jilted “she put on the white veil and set out the white cake…” (Porter 79). White symbolizes innocence. Granny first wedding day represents the last time she had her innocence. The unfortunate circumstance that Granny faces turn her to into a feisty old women and this new attitude becomes a way for Granny to feel better about the past. The narrator remembers a time about John “John’s eyes very black when they should have been blue” (Porter 81). Black symbolizes death. John’s death brings back memory of hardship in Granny’s life and her not fully understanding why bad events keep happening in her life. The death, John hurts Granny so she keeps busy with her kids and housework to forget about
He was a young black man accused of raping a white woman, Mr. Washington was ushered into court, forced to sign a confession, taken to a public square, where he was strip naked, lynched and his body set on fire. The spectacle was celebrated by the whole town, businesses where shut down, schools were close, to participate in this event, including the children.
Holling was a very interesting and very relatable person. He’s this pre-teen thats in middle school. He has a dad that only cares about work, his mom works around the house and his sister she work for Bobby Kennedy and she is a flower child. Holling is the only student in his classrooms on wednesday afternoons with Mrs. Baker. Half of his class is catholic, and half is lutheran, and they leave early on wednesdays to go to church.
Washington Jones in many different ways. At the beginning of the story Mrs. Luella Bates Washington Jones comes across as mean. She says to Roger regarding his dirty face, " 'Not with that face, I would not take you nowhere. ' " She also picks him up by his shirt to yell at him; however, as the story progresses, she realizes the boy has no parental guidance at home and gets softer towards him. Later in the story, she has more of a motherly quality to her. She takes Roger back to her house and cares for him. She tells him, " 'Let the water run until it gets warm; here's a clean towel.' " Roger sits circumspect
...the story concludes with the woman "crouched," still naked, "in the underbrush" below her house and marveling how strange it is to be seeing her husband at last after "having wanted so desperately to get home," and yet now feeling "no emotion" at what she saw. (138)
Another way that the narrator is forced into a role of passivity is through her diagnosis of hysteria, a condition deriving from stereotypical beliefs about women. The narrator’s diagnosis, which was more prominently given during the 18th century, is problematic because the condition itself is essentially the
Overall Mrs. Luella Bates Washington Jones is a very responsible, respectful, appropriate, caring person. She sees herself in other people and shows great empathy for them. Mrs. Jones shows great responsibility and handles the situation very well when a young boy named Roger tries to take her purse while she is out walking. She starts off by kicking him and then talking some sense into Roger. She asks the young boy if he will run if she lets him go, his response is not what Mrs. Jones was hoping for so she makes him stick around a bit longer. She can see by his appearance that he has a tough life at home and decides to help him. Mrs. Luella Bates Washington Jones, brings Roger back to her house to clean him up and feed him some dinner. It was
In Daisy Miller, Henry James slowly reveals the nature of Daisy"s character through her interactions with other characters, especially Winterbourne, the main character." The author uses third person narration; however, Winterbourne"s thoughts and point of view dominate." Thus, the audience knows no more about Daisy than Winterbourne." This technique helps maintain the ambiguity of Daisy"s character and draws the audience into the story.
Nancy Drew is involved in a mystery of a missing will from a man named Josiah Crowley. He had lived with his relatives, the Tophams, while he was ill. He then died and left all his money to the Tophams, who are very cruel people. Nancy now has heard that there is a second will that leaves money to all his family members. As Nancy is trying to find the will, she is thrown a couple of curve balls. She is thrown in a closet with no way out, and she is told just to give up. She never gave up because she knows that all things are possible.