Raymond Carver's Boxes

When her husband came home she had to become a caretaker of him and a mediator between him and other people, especially the children. Now that her husband is back she is having difficulties keeping up with the new demands on her role as a wife. She wants to be there for him while he is struggling through his issues, but he does not want to comfort that she is offering. She also needs support from him for what she went through (Knobloch & Theiss, 2012). There was one scene when she was talking with her two daughters about their father and why he was behaving the way he was.

Using examples from all of the texts from this specific unit compare and contrast the conflicts that drive these struggles of the main characters. Look for similarities and look for differences within those similarities. Look for differences and look for similarities within those differences. In the story “The yellow wall paper” the main character struggles due to her husband oppression and she suffers herself until getting mental ill. She is put by her husband on a nursery home to be taking care of, but her fear, anxiety and necessity of communication and comprehension from her husband and with the outside world doesn’t make her any better “I sometimes fancy that in my condition if I had less opposition and more society stimulus-but John says that very worst thing I can do to think about my condition and confess it always makes me feel bad” (507). She is stalwartly hoping to be taken out of the nursery but she had never confronted her husband.

What are some ways that you handle absence in your life? Sometimes people do things they enjoy to take their mind off of someone. They either plan certain activities with friends or go and do things by themselves. Some even move on and replace their loved one or friend. This can be very hurtful to accept; however, many will say that it is a part of life.

One of the stresses of being in the services is one's family, the spouse especially. They are always afraid of what will become of their marriage more than anything usually before the husbands or wives deploy. Some of the spouses cope by either showing excitement and supporting their husbands or wives, or distancing themselves from their loved one by arguing, not communicating, or talking about their own independence. Once their husbands or wives deploy, however, new issues arise. Sometimes this leads to the spouse coping using another person, developing feelings, and getting a divorce while their spouse is still deployed.

Tom favors his father’s passion for freedom from the overstretching, imposing will of his mother, but Tom also differs in that he can not justify the abandonment of his sister without insuring his sister’s well being. Amanda is leading Tom to leave home in much the same way as his father did; she even compares the two. Amanda says, “More and more you remind me of your father! He was out all hours without explanation! – Then left!

'Lara has the impression that the Man will care for and look after her, saving her from his wife and kids. '; When Lara eventually meets her new stepmother, her half-brother and half-sisters, she immediately knows that she is not wanted and that they hate her. So Lara thinks that the Man will look after her and save her from his family. This is further denial of the pain and loneliness she feels. Thunderwith the novel expresses a young girl grieving over her mother's death.

Client is a 25 year old Caucasian heterosexual woman who lives with a Caucasian male partner of 3 years who is the father of client’s 1 year old daughter. Client presents to therapy with depression, frustration and anxiety. Client reports that she feels stuck in her current relationship and that she would like to leave her partner but feels that she can’t because she does not want to lose custody of her daughter. Client reports that recently she has no desire to do anything around the house during the day and doesn’t want to spend time with her partner when he gets home from work. Client reports that she adores her child and feels her child is the “only reason she gets up in the morning”.

As well as, the death of her husband was not enough to kill her from a broken heart because of her condition. Finally, Louise not wanting companionship in her room shows that what she strives for has not been found in its entirety. The turning point to her real feelings about her being married has come to realization. This overwhelming feeling came over Louise, and the author wrote, “She was beginning to recognize this thing that was approaching to possess her, and she was striving to beat it back with h... ... middle of paper ... ...ense of freedom. The grief of her husband’s death is gone.

What is good for him is that he can still live his normal life by letting his wife, Norah teaches his son, Paul. If his wife listen and believes in that lie then he only hurts her a little and will help her to live through this sad news. "You gain one, you lose one" This saying fits perfectly in this situation. In order to please himself and his wife, he must lose "something". The "something" right here is his freedom life.

She still desires him and maybe by making him realize all these things that she feels, then he will feel the same that she did for him and their family. The second attribute that highlights her disposition and desire is her devotion to her husband and their family for all those years. For years all she cared about was her husband and her family and when they divorced he moved right along with his life. It was different for the woman though.