In D.H. Lawrence’s “The Horse Dealer’s Daughter,” Mabel “did not share the same life as her brothers ”(195). Mabel Pervin was not close to her brothers, because there were personal and physical separations. Mabel was a plain, uninteresting woman. She seldom showed emotion on her face. In fact her face usually remained impassive and unchanged. Her brothers could be described as three handsome and well-spoken men. Mabel was independent, having taken care of the house for ten years without a servant. Even though they depended upon her, they seemed to have control over her. The Pervin brothers “did not care about anything” (195). They were poised and felt secure about themselves. Her brothers felt superior to her. “They had talked at her and round her for so many years, that she hardly heard them at all” (196). She would either give a neutral response to her brothers, or remain quiet when they talked to her. Instead of giving her encouragement, they teased her. This treatment could have led to her insecurity. They would tease her about becoming a maid or about her “bulldog” face. Her brothers were full of energy and very talkative. Mabel also seemed to be alone in the world. Unlike her brothers who had many companions, she had had no friends of her own sex. Sometimes it seemed that Mabel wanted to escape her life. One place Mabel felt secure and immune from the world was at her mother’s grave. “There she always felt secure, as if no one could see her” (200). Mabel was extremely devoted to her deceased parents, especially her mother. She was mindless and persistent. At the graveside, she had many different feelings. She seemed to be coming nearer to her own glorification. Also she would become remote and intent. She seemed to feel contact with the world that mother had lived.
She then moves on to describe each of the characters, and in doing so, their surroundings and how they fit in: "He was cold and wet, and the best part of the day had been used up anyway. He wiped his hands on the grass and let the pinto horse take him toward home. There was little enough comfort there. The house crouched dumb and blind on the high bench in the rain. Jack's horse stood droop-necked and dismal inside the strand of rope fence, but there wasn't any smoke coming from the damned stove (28)."
This expedition of sort is demonstrated when Lily, having lost her mother as a young child, seeks a sense of comfort within the Boatwright sisters and the bees. Experiencing this sense of comfort and joy for the first time, given from the bees, Lily is met with a feeling of euphoria and excitement. However, upon realizing that the love she was feeling wasn’t truly from a mother, Lily described a dramatic change in feelings as, “Then, without all warning, all the immunity wore off, and I felt the hollow spooned-out space between my navel and breastbone begin to ache. The motherless place” (Kidd 150-151). Due to the dramatic contrast between the two emotions, it is evident that the theme, how the lack of a motherly figure leads to a missing part in a person’s life, is constructed using the structure. The sudden change from exhilaration to guilt and sorrow adds to the organization of the passage. By including such a dramatic shift between emotions, the author draws the reader’s attention to the contrasting feelings. Because the euphoria that Lily was experiencing was converted back to dysphoria, it is evident that the lack of having a mother in a child’s life cannot be fulfilled with another feeling. Thus, Lily is lead back to the start of her
Thom Gunn was a poet who often wrote of common hardships in every day life. Gunn’s writing style and choice of topics makes it obvious that he was writing in the middle to late twentieth century, and this is what draws people of today to his work. I believe that not only are people able to relate better to Gunn because of his topic selection but because of the time period the majority of his work is written in.
Clareece Jones, 16 year old female, was referred to this office for counseling by a teacher from her school. She prefers to be called and go by the name, “Precious.” Currently she resides in a halfway house and prior to that she was living in section 8 housing with her mother. Her mother does not work and collects welfare from the state. Her mother is physically, verbally and sexually abusive towards Precious. While living with her mother her main diet consisted of fried foods. There are many days she did not eat and her mother would force her to eat fried foods and then call her, “fat.” Client is in poor health and very overweight.
As she grew up she stood away from boys but when she noticed and kissed one her nanny married her off. In hope to give a wealthy life in which work was a distant memory. Her treatment in the first community was that of a object by her older husband (Mr.Killington). The community followed his example and thought her as nothing more than a common gold digger. They would gossip and spread rumors about her killing and running away with a young black man.
As a younger girl, Miss Emily has no control over her world. Instead, every aspect of Miss Emily’s life is controlled by her father. When describing a portrait of the two together, the narrator states, “Miss Emily a slender figure in white in the background, her father a spraddled silhouette in the foreground; his back to [Miss Emily] and clutching a horsewhip,” in order to give a description of the control Miss Emily’s father has over her (Faulkner 3). Miss Emily’s father stands in the front of the picture while Miss Emily remains behind him, which shows that Miss Emily’s father is clearly the dominant figure in their relationship. Dr. Xie Qun of the Zhongnan University of Economic and Law also suggests, “His turned back suggested his disregard for Emily’s emotional welfare” (Qun 67). The unblemished white color of Miss Emily’s dress conveys the idea that she is an innocent child. The dark “spraddled silhouette” that is being cast by Miss Emily’s father hangs over Miss Emily which suggests that Miss Emily is c...
Marie, who is a product of an abusive family, is influenced by her past, as she perceives the relationship between Callie and her son, Bo. Saunders writes, describing Marie’s childhood experiences, “At least she’d [Marie] never locked on of them [her children] in a closet while entertaining a literal gravedigger in the parlor” (174). Marie’s mother did not embody the traditional traits of a maternal fig...
The story, “Breaking In,” is about a horse being trained so that he can carry his master on his back. To be “broken in” means that a horse can wear a bit, bridal, saddle, horseshoes, and collar, and follow a rider’s commands.
Black Beauty is a classic novel written by Anna Sewell published in November 24, 1877. The book I read was printed in 1927, so the story is really old-fashioned and original. The story takes place in 19th century England and is narrated by Black Beauty in first person. The story basically explains his life starting from his early childhood to working adulthood. During his life, he was constantly sold to many horse owners and farmers.
A woman from an aristocratic family loses her father as well as the man who many thought she would marry. Losing a loved one affects people differently, and in many different ways such as anger, depression, acting out, and feelings of emptiness, but the effect on Emily Grierson from “A Rose for Emily” by William Faulkner was much different. Emily experienced delusions and lack of motivation, among other symptoms. While reading this short story, one begins to realize early on that there are some psychological inconsistencies with Emily, some of which can be seen in how she reacts to losing her loved ones. Faulkner displays Emily’s psychological inconsistencies in her relationships, interactions with townspeople, and her perceptions of reality.
John’s mother took her husbands’ death very hard. She could no longer run the stable business that her husband ran for so many years. With these facts in place, Frances then looks to remarry to help run the business. Barely two months after her husbands’ death, she remarried a minor bank clerk named William Rawlings on June 27, 1804. William was a fortune hunter and the children did not like him at all. Mr. Rawlings did not care about anything but money during their marriage, which made the marriage an indefinite disaster. Upon the end of their ill-fated marriage John, along with his other siblings were sent to live with their grand parents, months later Frances moved in also. Frances also left Mr. Rawlings with the stables she inherited from her late husband Thomas, and from that day forward Frances health began to dwindle away.
Michael was nervous beyond belief. He was about to try to ride one of the fastest animals on Earth. The noble horse. His dying mother’s last wish had been for him to be able to ride horses. His now widowed father had looked for the best riding academy in the United States of America. And here he was, in one of America’s best riding schools, renowned in all degrees, according to his dad’s iPad reviews list. His dad wasn’t very interested in Michael however. All he cared about was his work. But he was interested in his wife’s last wish. He even insisted on driving Michael to every one of his lessons in his Honda.
This is a portion that comes right before she visits her mother’s grave, a reason to believe that Mabel wants to live a good life but the death of her mother, her most loved family member, brings her so much pain even to this day. Mabel feels a connection to her mother as it is stated that tending to her mother’s grave allows her to have an “immediate contact with the world of her mother” (Lawrence 2501). The sorrow brought from her brother’s treatment towards her, along with the thoughts of her mother being gone, Mabel soon decided that the only thing to do in her situation was to commit suicide by walking into a lake to drowned. The sadness of the situation she was in, took over her mental state in the moment and luckily, Dr. Ferguson, who was out on the property, was there to see her attempt this and was able to stop her. As in my stated claim, I believe that Mabel wanted to live so I do not see this as an act of depression but more of a moment where she thought there was no other way to solve her
We know her state of mind in the last year of her life i.e. Hughes’ betrayal and all. She realizes it with bitterness never experienced earlier, but the phenomenon of betrayal is sought to be hid on her part from her mother. She continued to write to her mother that she “has everything in life, I’ve ever wanted: a wonderful husband, two adorable children, a lovely home and my writing” (Plath, LH 458). This is the dialectic part of her poetry. As we have seen, the phenomenon that shows itself also keeps undiscovered some part of it. Man is what he is not; he
As an unwed governess in the Victorian era, Charlotte Brontë’s protagonist Jane Eyre experiences both personal psychological growth and socioeconomic advancement as she strives to preserve her identity, attain autonomy, and fulfill her desire for true intimacy in the context of the gender-restrictive Victorian culture.