Transformation of Miss Ruddock in Lady Of Letters
Miss Irene Ruddock, the narrator of this monologue, is a lonely,
unhappy middle-aged woman who has no friends or family and lives alone
in her plain house. She is a woman who has many problems with keeping
up to date with society. She has many things that are wrong to her in
her life. This essay discusses her dramatic change as she is put in
prison, and how believable it is.
Miss Ruddock was a very lonely and isolated person towards the
beginning of the book. She has no close friends or relatives in which
to confide or to talk in depth to. The tensions she had, she kept to
herself because she had no one that she could tell. If she had had a
bad day, there was no one that he could talk to, to relieve her
stress. No one would talk to her unless they had to because she
appeared to them as a very pessimistic person. She may have been
negative like this because it is generally easier to criticise than to
compliment. With Miss Ruddock taking a negative attitude, some of this
rubs off on the person that she is speaking to. Their relationship
then takes a downward turn, which gives Miss Ruddock an excuse to
complain. To express her complaints, she writes letters about them.
She is nosey and thinks in her mind that she can solve and help other
people’s problems. She sometimes interferes where she isn’t needed;
this is the case about the ‘neglected child’. Letters are a way to
challenge people, with out having to return an immediate reply. There
is no chance for an immediate reply; Miss Ruddock does this when she
sees dog mess on the slope. This is just a minor problem, yet to
communicate with someone, she voices her concern. When speaking about
this problem she says that ‘there’s more now than there used to be’.
It is a possibility that she only thinks this now because she
complains now and looks for things to complain about, yet in the past,
Life is unpredictable, and through trial and error humanity learns how to respond to conflicts and learns how to benefit from mistakes. Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale from Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter is a character who changes and gains knowledge from the trials he faces, but first he has to go through physical, spiritual, and emotional agony. In the midst of all the havoc, the young theologian is contaminated with evil but fortunately his character develops from fragile to powerful, and the transformation Dimmesdale undergoes contributes to the plot’s climax.
with people. In order to find her own "voice" in a society that is not
... she really can be a frightful person to be near. She is also uses
what she knew of her odd identity. Then one day she saw herself in a photograph
hard, and rude, and wild” because she is violent, “f[i]ghting with older kids and she
right to express what she feels, and fights for her right to do what she wants
was no longer alone. She had friends to love her and guide her to the next
him, he was no wiser and was trying to help his side and so he did
she will not put up with how she is treated. She has the courage to
free from the laws and regulations made by the king of England. In the new
Near the beginning of the movie her brother dies from falling out of a third story window and she is forced to buy a coffin for him because her parents are unable to communicate this is largely because of the lack of accommodations that were available during the time. As the movie progresses and she faces more of lives hardships she starts to realize that she is the connection between the hearing and non-hearing worlds for her parents. For her graduation her father makes a kind jester of purchasing a hearing aid, which was one of the early models. Unfortunately her misunderstanding led to he feeling embarrassed of her parents although, it is unfair that she hid away her parents from her social life in the first place. One of the main characters that really kept her grounded was Mr. Petrakis. A kind elderly man who runs a pawnshop down the street. He also tends to be her way of venting because she doesn’t know how to tell her parents how upset she is. After her graduation she starts as a secretary where she meets her eventual husband William Anglin who repeatedly asks her out, but is unable to up until he is leaving for basic training for WWII. After they date are dating for a while ...
the opposite sex, but we notice there is no objection to her meeting with the same
...her to feel despair. Her misery resulted in her doing unthinkable things such us the unexplainable bond with the woman in the wallpaper.
woman as her father died when she was younger and she has no one to
is perfect, but she has no idea what is going on in the world outside.