Nearly all readers would agree that Mathilda loved her father dearly, regardless of how he acted towards her. Mathilda was bewildered when her father's behavior towards her changed. It doesn't simply change once; it changes time and time again, and not for the better. This emotional roller coaster her father puts her on makes Mathilda wonder if something is wrong with her. It makes her believe she is the cause of her mother's and eventually father's death. She feels unworthy of any sort of relationships later in life. This is why the guilt Mathilda's father imposes on her affects her concept of self later in life.
Mathilda feels like something is wrong with herself that makes her father act in such an unstable manner. Probably the biggest piece of evidence is when her father tells her the reason he has been so sad and angry is because he loves her. She is shocked by this confession because she had thought all this time that he hated her and she had done something to make him angry. When he kills himself a few hours later and leaves only a note for explanation, she breaks down. She then secludes herself from everyone because she becomes so depressed by all the guilt and sadness she feels. Mathilda then appears to be very content, and the guilt seems to go away for a while. When Woodville comes into her life, her feelings get mixed up again. This is when she thinks about killing herself. She is tired of feeling so sad and worthless and does not see the point in living. Everyone she thinks she could ever love is in another world; there is nothing for her in this world, so she thinks she is ready for the n...
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...ever actually does it is because Woodville talks her out of each time she seriously considers it. The other reason is because she knows it is unnatural to take your own life willingly. Even so she becomes very impatient waiting for the hour when God should grant her wish of letting her die by His hand.
The guilt Mathilda's father imposes on her, definitely affects her concept of self. It makes Mathilda wonder if something is wrong with her. She also believes she is the cause of her mother's and eventually father's death. Mathilda feels unworthy of any sort of relationship later in life. After her father kills himself, she is devastated and feels lost in the world he left her in. Although her father may not have meant to do so, he affected the way Mathilda would forever look at her self and how she fit into society.
While she might think that her plans are working, they only lead her down a path of destruction. She lands in a boarding house, when child services find her, she goes to jail, becomes pregnant by a man who she believed was rich. Also she becomes sentenced to 15 years in prison, over a street fight with a former friend she double crossed. In the end, she is still serving time and was freed by the warden to go to her mother’s funeral. To only discover that her two sisters were adopted by the man she once loved, her sister is with the man who impregnated her, and the younger sister has become just like her. She wants to warn her sister, but she realizes if she is just like her there is no use in giving her advice. She just decides that her sister must figure it out by
From the beginning, the doctor was placed in a hostile situation where the family “[wasn’t] telling [the doctor] more than they had to,”(1) while Mathilda was “eating [him] up with her cold, steady eyes” with “no expression to her face whatever.” which is to be expected from a child towards a stranger. But she escalates extremely quickly when the doctor simply moves his chair up closer; she suddenly “claws instinctively for [the doctor’s] eyes.” This is her first attempt to resist the doctors help but the doctor just remains frank with Mathilda and...
We can see the way that she is careless of death when she finds a frozen dead sparrow on the ground and throws it into the incinerator without much thought. This is also the first time that she realizes that her own death is approaching by the appearance of her late husband, who then provokes her to cross the reach on several occasions. She was hesitant of her own
...ression and guilt self-blaming, suicidal attempt, including the effects of his mother’s emotional unavailability, his resentment that his mother loved his father and brother more.
My As the years have passed, I do believe my father’s death had a profound impact on my emotional and social development, especially during my adolescent stage. It was during the adolescent stage of my life where my personality traits of shyness, introversion, and self-esteem began to manifest. I did not have a secure attachment to my father. My relationship with my mother felt more like I was attempting to protect her from my father. During my adolescent years we were not
...der what motive? He had to justify his motives, perhaps to add some morality to ensure what he was doing was ethical. He would flip that thought, perhaps to try and downplay his desire to unleash his violent frustration onto the girl. He ultimately saved Mathilda’s life in a sense, but under which motive? I believe the this is the question William Carlos Williams’ The Use of Force has the reader ask themselves. Under a emergency situation the human condition can be torn between a code of ethics or a dominance of dark desire. No doubt in The Use of Force, the end of the situation turned out well as the girl could be saved, but the method to find out was ambiguous. How well would the case between doing the right thing and doing what you desire turn out in any other situation? I believe this is the question that William Carlos Williams wanted the reader to think about.
Even though her husband treats her with what seem at first as love, it becomes clear she is nothing more to him than a piece of property. Every time he talks to her, he asks her to get better for his sake and the children's, and only after mentions hers interests. He doesn't think that she has any normal human feelings or worries and attributes her behavior to minor nervous depression. He doesn't see her true suffering since he believes "there is no reason to suffer" (574). He could never understand that a woman can be unsatisfied with the role imposed on her by society. Even though the heroine recognizes that her condition is caused by something other than John's theory, she is too scared to voice her opinion.
Details about the modest apartment of the Loisels on the Street of Martyrs indicate Mathilde’s peevish lack of adjustment to life. Though everything is serviceable, she is unhappy with the “drab” walls, “threadbare” furniture, and “ugly” curtains (5). She has domestic help, but she wants more servants than the simple country girl who does the household chores in the apartment. Her embarrassment and dissatisfaction are shown by details of her irregularly cleaned tablecloth and the plain and inelegant beef stew that her husband adores. Even her best theater dress, which is appropriate for apartment life but which is inappropriate for more wealthy surroundings, makes her unhappy. All these details of the apartment establish that Mathilde’s major trait at the story’s beginning is maladjustment. She therefore seems unpleasant and unsympathetic.
Since the very day of her birth, Mathidle has constantly chased after the affluent existence as she fantasizes that women like her friend, Madam Forestier, relish. Through her husband’s invitation to the minister’s gala, she adorns herself in a fine dress and a priceless diamond necklace, and transforms her into a beautiful envied person far from her usual impoverished disposition. However, after she loses the necklace, replaces it, and repays the debts, she finds pleasure within her “new” life as a lower class woman, which is who she was destined to
Mathilda was born in a clerk’s family, but the natural charm and mesmerizing beauty she had, made her always think she should belong in an upper class family. She suffered as if she had been wealthy before. She lived in her own imaginary world where the real life does not match with the ideal life she thinks that she deserves. She was married to a clerk of Board of Education, Mr. Loisel. She was unhappy with her financial condition, she hated that she can’t have the fine jewellery or the fine clothings. In the book we see
When the narrator says “without Marla, Tyler would have nothing” (5), he explains her primary function in the text. Marla’s attendance of support groups spoils the scheme used by the narrator to “cradle his inner child” and cope with insomnia. She appears as his reflection because she is a liar. Marla’s indifferent behavior, as well as her gender, challenge the narrator because he does not want look weak. He cannot relax when Marla is watching because he is afraid that she will accuse him of being a faker. Marla is the primary reason why narrator’s insomnia transforms into his personality disorder. She is the catalyst for all events in the book.
Mathilde may not be from the first class, but she still has a nice apartment, a comfortable lifestyle, manicured hands, and even a maid to do all the housework. These facts show that Mathilde is in the middle-class, most likely the upper half. Although she appears to have a great life, she only sees what she does not have and compares herself to the women in the first class. Her dissatisfied disposition is described, “as if she had gone through bankruptcy” (paragraph 2). Self-absorption is creates the misplacement her priorities. Having the most in materials, being the envy of every woman, and the attraction of every man, are her objectives for life. As for her dissatisfied disposition, she is missing the wonderful life that she has and even when her middle class life is gone, she still does not look back fondly at the memories, which is all she now has from her former life. Most importantly, she continues to miss the love and care her husband gives her and continues to resent her parents for not having first class connections and having to settle in marring her husband, Mr. Loisel, because he is not a rich, well-known
In “The Necklace,” Mathilde’s internal struggle is with herself. She mentally battled with the physical and financial limitations placed on her, but more with her own soul. She was unhappy with her place in life and could not accept the simplicity of her station, believing it to be truly beneath her. “All those things… tortured her and made her angry. “ Her husband’s blatant acceptance of their place only fueled her frustrations further.
Mathilda lives on the same floor in an apartment building that Léon lives. When Mathilda's abusive father steals from a drug dealer, Stansfield, who is also the DEA agent, Mathilda's entire family is murdered in a very brutal assault at their apartment by the DEA /drug dealer team. Mathilda was not at home at the time but witnesses the results of the massacre as the team is still in the apartment searching for the drugs. She cleverly pretends to ignore the carnage in her own apartment as she passes by it and approaches Léon's apartment door. She begs him to open the door in a quiet, panicked voice several times as ...
The film, then, relates a father/ daughter dynamic built upon emotional lack, as the father expressly negates the significance of his own child.