In a short story, the Boarding House, a main character, Mrs. Mooney, began a wonderful relationship with her husband, Mr. Mooney, however she did not realize that the relationship would turn around after the death of her father. Mrs. Mooney’s experience in marriage was not what a female imagines, after the death of her father that was when Mr. Mooney “began to go to the devil”(Joyce, 61). Mr. Mooney’s actions were all over the place: he began to drink, gamble, and the worst of all, one night he ran after Mrs. Mooney with a cleaver. At this point Mrs. Mooney knew that she had to separate herself and her family from Mr. Mooney. So, Mrs. Mooney had taken all of the money from the butcher’s shop and built a Boarding House. However, she did not divorce, but only separated from her husband. From the beginning, moving away from the butcher’s shop to the Boarding House, Mrs. Mooney’s intentions were to get her daughter married to the right ideal man, by doing so, she selects handsome young men in the boarding house, her own experience with men, and by observing Mr. Doran and Polly’s affair.
To begin with, Mrs. Mooney’s intention throughout the story was to get her daughter, Polly, to marry off to an ideal man. She knew that building a Boarding House is putting a roof over herself and her family’s head. Then it is believable that she begins to try and find a man for Polly. So a Boarding House is the solution and allowing young ideal men live there.
Mrs. Mooney motives were to surround Polly with ideal men so Polly can have the marriage that Mrs. Mooney was not able to be happy about. Throughout the story, Mrs. Mooney allowed Polly to work as a “house wife” in the Boarding House, and as Polly started to enjoy doing the housework, Polly be...
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...eal man to marry Polly and the two loving one another is something that Mrs. Mooney will not reject. If a parent like their daughter or son’s significant other then there is no stopping, the parent will allow a marriage to happen. Since Mrs. Mooney is such in an understandable state of mind, readers can conclude that Mrs. Mooney lets Mr. Doran and Polly marry one another.
Therefore, Mr. Doran is the ideal man for Polly to marry and Mrs. Mooney will accept that matter. Mrs. Mooney is a controllable mother, however; she did find a wonderful man to marry Polly. Because of Mrs. Mooney’s experience with her own relationship, her intention was to marry her daughter to a better man that can protect her daughter. Overall, Mrs. Mooney’s intention was to marry Polly to an ideal man when she builds the Boarding House because of her own experience. Mother knows what is best.
The character Mrs. Wright is portrayed as a kind and gentle woman. She is also described as her opinion not being of importance in the marriage. It is stated by Mr. Hale that “ I didn’t know as what his wife wanted made much difference to John” .(745) Her neighbor, Mrs. Hale, depicts her as “She─come to think of it, she was kind of like a bird herself─real sweet and pretty, but kind of timid and─fluttery. How─she─did─change”. (752) It appears that Mrs. Wright is a kind and gentle woman, not capable of committing a murder. But, with the evidence provided and the description of Mr. Wright’s personality it can also be said that the audience will play on the sympathy card for Mrs. Wright. She appears to be caught in a domestic violence crime in which she is guilty of, but the audience will overlook the crime due to the nature of the circumstances. By using pathos it will create a feeling that Mrs. Wright was the one who was suffering in the marriage, and that she only did what she felt necessary at the
As Janie is growing up she has to learn to accept her Nanny’s belief of how a woman is supposed to live in society. Nanny grew up in slavery so she believes that the role of men is to support his wife financially. Nanny thinks Janie should marry a man according to how successful he is and Janie should keep up the household responsibilities. Janie’s grandmother said, “Ah been waitin’ a long time, Janie, but nothin’ Ah I
Before Mrs. Ames and the mother realize the restrictions of their old lives, their worlds have been full of disillusionment and ignorance. Mrs. Ames, for example, is oppressed by her husband’s silence and the search for love and tenderness from anyone, because she lives each day alone, ignored by her scornful husband. And, as a result of being left companionless, she does not mature, rather she longs for tenderness. In other words, Boyle explains her dysfunctional relationship with her husband, “The mystery and silence of her husband’s mind lay like a chiding finger of her lips. Her eyes were gray for the light had been extinguished in them” (57). That is, Mrs. Ames’ spirit remains oppressed by her husband who treats her as a child, and, in doing so, isolates her from his world.
Curley’s wife is a beautiful woman, whose blossoming with love, with big hopes for the future. She dreams of becoming a big actress n Hollywood. She wants to become rich and famous, and have nice cloths. She wants to make something from her life. Because of her beauty she was promised great things. But in reality her dreams never came true, the letters she awaited never came, the promises that were maid to her were never fulfilled. “Could’ve been in the movies, an’ had nice clothes”. She refused to stay where she would be a nobody. “Well, I wasn’t gonna stay no place where I couldn’t get nowhere or make something of my life”. So one night she meat Curley at the Riverside Dance Palace, and she married him, he became her ticket out from her desperate life. She never married him out of love and passion just of desperation. “I don’t like Curley. He aint a nice fella”.
Once Janie was of age to have serious relationships, Janie’s grandmother tried to guide Janie in the direction of the upper class and money. The point was so that Janie would never have to work a day in her life and only have to fulfill her normal housewife duties. But once word got
...her room she will no longer be bound to her husband but rather free to do what she wants whenever she chooses to. Mrs. Mallard is at last apart from a person who was once somebody she loved but then started to dislike him because of his selfishness towards her. Then at last she comes to a point when she sees him and dies because she knows she will be jailed up again with his possession with her.
As Winfield 's wife, Amanda is worthy of love and respect. Amanda is a southern lady, when she was young, she had an attractive appearance and graceful in manner, and her families were also quite rich. These favorable conditions made her the admiration of many men. Still, her final choice was a poor boy. She did not hesitate and bravely to choose her own love. Though her marriage was not as good as she had imagined the happiness of life, and the husband, Winfield meager income also drinking heavily, finally abandoned Amanda and two young children, but she still remembered and loved her husband. Her husband 's weakness did not make Amanda fall down; instead, she was brave enough to support the family, raising and educating of their two young children. Daughter Laura was a disability to close her fantasy world, and she was collection of a pile of glass small animals as partners. Amanda knew Laura sensitive, fragile, she was always in the care and encourages her daughter. Because of her shortcomings, Laura sometimes frustrated and Amanda immediately replied that "I 've told you never, never to use that word. Why, you 're not crippled, you just have a little defect". Amanda for the care of the children was more reflected a mother 's strong from the play that Amanda paid money to send Laura to typing school. She hoped daughter have a better future and married a good man to take care of the family, and encouraged her daughter, prompting her to go out of the glass menagerie to experience her real life, but Amanda placed more expectations for his son Tom because her husband left home, Tom is the only man and the mainstay of the family. She wanted Tom to realize that is a kind of family responsibility, also is a kind of essential social
In Chapter 2, Charlotte thinks that happiness can happen only by chance since you do not have an opinion of who you are to be married to. Marriage in this society is a means of financial stability and that is more important than love or happiness. Elizabeth, however, believes that love is very important. In Chapter 22, Charlotte marries Mr. Collins because she believes this is her last chance to be married and have a home of her own. Under the difficult circumstances, she feels she has made a right choice because she is a burden to her family and marrying someone like Mr. Collins, who has money shows that she is most likely to move up in a social class. Charlotte, who is in her late twenties, points out that she is not as pretty as many of her friends; in addition, she has not received any other marriage offers. If she stays with her parents, she will be both an emotional burden and a financial strain. She recognizes Mr. Collins as a man who, who has a comical personality, will provide her with a safe home and security. Charlotte considers the proposal to be the best deal she can get and she knows that marriage is her only option to watch a hard
Most women in Mrs Mallard’s situation were expected to be upset at the news of her husbands death, and they would worry more about her heart trouble, since the news could worsen her condition. However, her reaction is very different. At first she gets emotional and cries in front of her sister and her husbands friend, Richard. A little after, Mrs. Mallard finally sees an opportunity of freedom from her husbands death. She is crying in her bedroom, but then she starts to think of the freedom that she now has in her hands. “When she abandoned herse...
...an only find true happiness in marriage with someone who shares similar manners and treasure people’s qualities over their look and status. This is when Anne’s sensibility allows her to disregard her family’s persuasion and become determined to fulfill her love with Wentworth.
Mr. Collins proposes to Charlotte and she says yes. She feels that he is rich while she is not. Mr. Collins tells the Bennets that he will be back, and they think he plans to marry one of the other sisters, but Charlotte tells Elizabeth the news. This shocks Elizabeth.
Curley’s wife has had this dream since she was young. She laments that she “coulda been in the movies, an’ had nice clothes-all them nice clothes like they wear…because this guy said I was a natural” (Steinbeck 89). Curley’s wife was very happy with that statement and thought that she was special, but the guy who told her that never contacted her ever again. He most likely saw that she was very absorbed into the dream and told her that out of pity. Since she never got any information from the guy, she decided that “[she] wasn’t gonna stay no place where [she] couldn’t get nowhere or make something of myself…[and] married Curley”(88). Curley’s wife immediately marries Curley after she made up her mind and seals her fate. Attell believes that Curley’s wife’s “actions and the events resulting from them are [results of] specific norms and practices that govern society and contemporary life”(n.pag.). Thus, Curely’s wife did not want a regular women’s life at the time and wanted to stand out. But since she was a woman and was not special she had to get married like how other women would during the time. Bound by her unwilling marriage, she is unable to actualize her practically impossible
Contrary to the stereotypical woman of the Victorian culture, both female characters Gwendolen and Cecily become instigators of love, from influencing the proposal to composing their own love letters from their lovers. Gwendolen affirms her forwardness in romantic matters when she exclaims to Jack who is hesitant about proposing, “I am afraid you have had very little experience in how to propose” (Powell, 132). Not only do the ladies have a skewed view of marriage and their responsibilities within that relationship, but the men do as well. Algernon says of proposals, “I really don’t see anything romantic in proposing. It is very romantic to be in love. But there is nothing romantic about a definite proposal. Why, one may be accepted” (Ericksen, 150). He clearly has a skewed view of marriage. When it comes to Lady Bracknell, her view of marriage is primarily concerned with money and sometimes concerned with social respectability. When questioning Jack about the potential of marrying Gwendolen, she focuses on typically irrelevant characteristics. Lady Bracknell says of Jack’s confession to his tendency to smoke, “I am glad to hear it. A man should always have an occupation of some kind” (Greenblat, 539-540). She goes on to take interest in such things as his knowledge and education, finances, and family
Clarissa Dalloway is content with her life with Richard, is content to give her party on a beautiful June evening, but she does regret at times that she can’t “have her life over again” (10). Clarissa’s memories of Bourton, of her youth, are brought back to her vividly by just the “squeak of the hinges. . . [and] she had burst open the French windows and plunged at Bourton into the open air” (3). The very intensity of these memories are what make them so much a part of what she is– everything in life reminds her of Bourton, of Sally Seton, of Peter Walsh. Peter and Sally were her best friends as a girl, and “with the two of them. . . she s...
In actuality, she was defiant, and ate macaroons secretly when her husband had forbidden her to do so. She was quite wise and resourceful. While her husband was gravely ill she forged her father’s signature and borrowed money without her father or husband’s permission to do so and then boastfully related the story of doing so to her friend, Mrs. Linde. She was proud of the sacrifices she made for her husband, but her perceptions of what her husband truly thought of her would become clear. She had realized that the childlike and submissive role she was playing for her husband was no longer a role she wanted to play. She defied the normal roles of the nineteenth century and chose to find her true self, leaving her husband and children