1. The main protagonist for this story is Mr. Waythorn, he is the third and current husband of Alice Waythorn and the story is mostly told from his perspective. He is the main character of the story and works with Alice's second husband, Gus Varick. He is also the stepfather of Lily who is the daughter of the first husband of Alice; Mr. Haskett. He looks beyond the social stigma of marrying a woman who has been twice divorced. We see throughout the story Mr. Waythorn’s character undergoes some changes in the way he views his wife and her past relationships thereby making him a round character. Mrs. Waythorn is the antagonist of this story, it is obvious that the she has used all her marriages to advance her social standing, she redefines herself …show more content…
Exposition
We find Mr. Waythorn who is newly married to Alice Waythorn, waiting eagerly for his wife to get home because they were supposed to have a romantic dinner. When she gets home she tells him that her first husband Mr. Haskett would like to assert his rights to see his daughter, Lily, who is critically ill and only has a short time to live. Mr. Waythorn wants him to see his daughter but doesn’t want him coming to his
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Gus Varick comes to visit Mr. Waythorn to discuss some business, and his behavior is both gentlemanly and civilized. Mr. Waythorn also sees Haskett visit Lily and to his surprise, Mr. Haskett is a rather inoffensive man and he seems to truly love his daughter. Mr. Waythorn starts wondering how Alice’s Marriage life to Haskett could have been like.
Falling Action
5. Mr. Waythorn finds out that Mr. Haskett loves his daughter, Lily, so much that he has made some important sarcrifices just so that he would be able to stay close to her, he also discovers that his wife lied to him about Mr. Haskett. Mr. Waythorn also finds that he gets along well with Gus Varick as they work together in their business venture. How Mr. Waythorn sees Alice changes, he begins to see her as somewhat promiscuous.
Resolution
6. Mr. Waythorn begins to accept the fact that he is only a ‘part’ of his wife’s life. Initially he approaches that realization with satire but he discovers that he is actually in the best position because Alice has learned a lot from the mistakes and reality of her past two marriages. The story concludes when Haskett comes to visit his daughter, Lily, and as he is there, Gus Varick also arrives. Mr. Waythorn, who now respects Haskett and Gus sits down with both men, they start smoking cigars then they are joined by Alice, who serves them tea. Mr. Waythorn takes his cup with a
Throughout “Ethan Frome,” Edith Wharton renders the idea that freedom is just out of reach from the protagonist, Ethan Frome. The presence of a doomed love affair and an unforgiving love triangle forces Ethan to choose between his duty and his personal desire. Wharton’s use of archetypes in the novella emphasizes how Ethan will make choices that will ultimately lead to his downfall. In Edith Wharton’s, “Ethan Frome.” Ethan is wedged between his duty as a husband and his desire for happiness; however, rather than choosing one or the other, Ethan’s indecisiveness makes not only himself, but Mattie and Zeena miserable.
Ethan Frome is the main character of Edith Wharton’s tragic novel. Ethan lives the bitterness of his youth’s lost opportunities, and dissatisfaction with his joyless life and empty marriage. Throughout the story Ethan is trapped by social limits and obligations to his wife. He lives an unhappy life with many responsibilities and little freedom. Ethan Frome studied science in college for a year and probably would have succeeded as an engineer or physicist had he not been summoned home to run the family farm and mill. Ethan quickly ended his schooling and went to run the family farm and mill because he feels it is his responsibility. He marries Zeena after the death of his mother, in an unsuccessful attempt to escape silence, isolation, and loneliness. Ethan also feels the responsibility to marry Zeena as a way to compensate her for giving up part of her life to nurse his mother. After marring Zeena he forgets his hope of every continuing his education and he is now forced to remain married to someone he does not truly love.
As the story develops so does Waythorn’s internal conflict over his new wife’s continued contact with her ex-husbands. When he is told that the first husband has written a letter through
Alice Walker’s “Roselily”, when first read considered why she decided to use third person. Especially when the story is in such a private line of thought, but then after my second time reading the story I decided that Roselily would not be a strong enough woman to speak about the social injustices that have happened to her. One key part of the story is her new life she will be facing after she is married in Chicago, while comparing it with her old life she is leaving in Mississippi. In Chicago she will no longer have a job, but instead be a homemaker where she will be responsible for the children and home. Also, in Chicago she will become a Muslim because it is what her new husband will want her to be, but back in Mississippi she was of the Christian faith. One of the more positive outcomes of her marriage is that she will go from extreme poverty, to not having to worry about money on a day to day basis.
Finally, even though, for a long time, the roles of woman in a relationship have been established to be what I already explained, we see that these two protagonists broke that conception and established new ways of behaving in them. One did it by having an affair with another man and expressing freely her sexuality and the other by breaking free from the prison her marriage represented and discovering her true self. The idea that unites the both is that, in their own way, they defied many beliefs and started a new way of thinking and a new perception of life, love and relationships.
Making a good and persuasive argument is very much an acquired skill. It requires much practice and perfecting. It takes more than just having passion and making good points. Just because a person is passionate about the topic or has supporting details does not mean they can make a successful argument. Much more thought and skill is required. Gordon Adams, in his letter to the Arizona State University standards committee, demonstrates this quite well. Gordon Adams writes a passionate argument, yet his argument lacks several critical aspects.
Dorothea Brooke is a very bright and beautiful young lady that does not much care for frills or getting ahead in society. She wants more than anything to help those around her, starting with the tenants of her uncle. She desires to redesign their cottages, but Arthur Brooke, her elderly uncle with whom she and her younger sister Celia Brooke lives with, does not want to spend the money required. So Dorothea shares her dream with Sir James Chettam, who finds her fascinating, and encourages her to use the plans she has drawn up for the tenants on his land instead. He falls in love with her, but does not share his feelings for her quickly enough. Edward Casaubon, an older scholarly clergyman asks Dorothea to marry him, she does not accept until she finds out Sir James means to seriously court her, then turns around and tells Casaubon yes. What she does not te...
Alice and Kevin have an interesting start to their relationship. Initially, it appears that Dana is not interested in Kevin, as she tries to reject communication and his advances through buying her lunch. This distance on Dana’s part allows readers to contemplate whether Dana is put off by Kevin’s obtrusive attitude because he is a man, because he is white, or a combination of the two. As the novel advances, Butler continues to focus Kevin’s faults in his marriage because of his identity as a white man.
In February of 2010 a teacher at my high school was diagnosed with an uncommon form of cancer called angiosarcoma. Ms. Ensign was a business technology teacher. Along with her teaching she was a varsity softball coach, varsity volleyball coach and an athletic facility manager for the school. One could also spot her at sporting events and school assemblies taking photographs for the school yearbook. Ms. Ensign would be treated monthly in Houston, TX. Even though she had this rare form of cancer, one would never know because she always returned to school the next day after her treatments. Ms. Ensign was the most positive woman I have ever met. She was someone who gave everything to her community and asked for nothing in return. How would one give back to such an amazing person? Fortunately, a senior named Manda conceived a plan to help, She called it Mission Ensign. Mission Ensign began as an ongoing fundraiser that assisted in funding for all of Ms. Ensigns travel expenses. The first year we raised $10,000. Manda led Mission Ensign when I was a sophomore. Elected Student Council co-pr...
Another example of how Alice has survived from marriage to marriage is she has learned to please men. By the time she marries Waythorn, she has almost perfected this talent. However, Waythorn becomes suspicious of this behavior after encountering the other two husbands. Later in the story, Waythorn finds that his wife 's "pliancy was beginning to sicken him" (Wharton 53). At this point, he realizes that she was not only so accommodating with him she was also this way with the other two spouses. Because of this, he becomes conscious of the fact that
Amy and Nick’s relationship, for example, demonstrates how both a female and a male try to live up to certain standards in order to form a cohesive relationship. This was proven when Amy comments on Nick’s habits, “[…] he replaces a pipe beneath our sink and repaints all the rooms we painted before and didn’t like” (83). It’s notable that, Amy, fake diary Amy, gives Nick tasks that a stereotypical man does around the house. Amy, fake diary Amy, also portrays herself to be a dotting housewife (85). Amy, through her fictional diary, paints a picture of her and Nick as a stereotypical couple that does stereotypical things. This argument is furthered when Amy says, “We pretend together that we are happy and carefree and in love” (409). This quote illustrates that there are certain expectations of couples that need to be met in order for society to view the couple as happy. Just like individuals have roles as males and females-males and females have roles in order to form a couple. This is also seen through Rand and Marybeth, Amy’s parents. Rand and Marybeth are the epitome of a perfect marriage and exact opposite of Nick’s parents, who divorce while Nick, is still young. The novel comments on Nick’s parents saying that Nick’s mom, while married to his dad, always did the housekeeping, the cleaning, and the caretaking. Nick’s farther was the breadwinner (144-145). These roles are traditional yet the relationship fell apart. If this is put into contrast with Rand and Marybeth’s relationship, a successful marriage, it’s important to note that Rand and Marybeth didn’t fall into traditional roles. Rand was characterized as sensitive and Marybeth made just as much money as Rand (147-155). Overall, Flynn highlights various types of relationships-some traditional, some not; these relationships further emphasized or deflect from typical male and female roles in
With regards to your first paragraph, you are right on point. Excellent perception. Understanding in life there are always three sides of every story, it is impossible to keep everyone happy even when the result appears to be positive. Think about when planning a wedding and how exciting a wedding is and how this time in a couple's life ends up causing so many problems, heartaches, and many times destroys not only friendships, families, but also results in the marriage never taking place after all is said and done. The point I bring to the table about being a liar for educational purposes is from experience I know students are concerned with offending each other so instead of voicing their opinions openly they simply agree with everything their classmate's write. This procedure serves absolutely no valuable educational purpose if everyone agrees with each other even when they disagree with what they wrote. This is why I openly offer your classmates and you to write whatever you want about me. I will not get offended and I actually encourage you to DISAGREE with anything and everything I write, but I ask that you defend you position with facts. And if you choose not to disagree with me - I WILL DISAGREE WITH YOU! Understand, there is nothing you can write that will actually offend me, but I do ask that you not purposefully offend your classmates. (In class I openly say things to the students so they know I'm okay with being challenged verbally and while I cannot illustrate that to your class and you on a discussion board, accept that it is acceptable.)
Louise’s desperation for her freedom and to express how overjoyed she is by no longer being below a man conveys that deep underlying tension men and women have between each other. Females are restricted and identified as objects, being subservient with their husbands. Today, marriage can still be seen as a patriarchal institution; existing to benefit the man and keep the woman passive. Little is expected of men, they continue their career and go about their lives while women are assumedly going to start having babies, take care of their husbands, and prioritize everyone else before their own needs are met. It has long been known that women are taught to not value their self-worth until a man is present, that we must work hard to be desirable and beautiful for a man so he will want us. Mrs. Mallard’s relationship followed the pattern of a territorial husband and his need to make the head decisions for everyone. The author is exposing what is a reality seen too often beyond the story; men have authority over their spouses and their lives, ensuring that control is never within the woman’s hands. Although Mrs. Mallard’s husband wasn’t callous towards her, he did strip her of her identity, leaving her with physical and emotional weaknesses. “…Into this she sank, pressed down by a physical exhaustion that haunted her body and seemed to reach into her soul” (Paragraph 4, lines 1-3). All the sickly feelings that Mrs. Mallard is facing, serve to show the reader just how much this marriage took a toll on her. She was a woman who had at one point power and rights to speak her mind, but soon became a puppet to a man’s
Two of the main characters, Jack and Algernon, strive to be "Ernest" and "Earnest" in the play, yet they both deceive others to escape lives which they grow tired of. They both hope to marry the girls that they love, yet they are starting the relationship based on false pretence and lies. It is ironic that they both call themselves "Ernest," a name that suggests honesty and sincerity, yet they both create stories to escape something or the other. Jack creates a brother called "Ernest" in the city that he uses as a scape goat' to leave his prim and proper, respectable country life, whereas Algernon creates a friend by the name of "Bunbury" to escape his aunt's high class society parties. He shows his lack of interest in such social events when he tells Jack.