Washington Square
I’m depressed. Well, how could I not be? I just finished reading Washington
Square. I’m happy it’s over, but I’m not happy I finished it. No, that doesn’t make sense does it? Lets just say, I had a feeling how it was going to end up; I just hoped that I would be wrong. Unfortunately the one time I didn’t want to be right I was. Isn’t that the way it always works? I guess so.
Catherine, dear plain old, Catherine. Poor girl, father thinks she’s plain, she
thinks she’s plain, her aunt thinks she’s plain, even the man who she thinks loves her
thinks she’s plain. Although James erases this thought in the beginning of the book I still believe it, “plain” equals “ugly”. I feel so bad for her but I guess you had to have what happened to her happen, or else we wouldn’t have such a depressing story. I tell you though, I’m glad my daddy isn’t rich or I would swear off guys as well. I felt so horrible when I knew before her what Morris was like.
Which brings me to Morris Townsend. He’s a rat, I smelt a rat from the beginning but I figured it was just because for me guys for the most part are always rats. But of course he was after her money, she was “plain” and her father was “rich” no her father wasn’t “rich”. By god he was rich. So Catherine’s got a big dowry, lots of money, but she’s “plain”. Oh, well the money will compensate. This shows you the kind of man he is. Well at least it erases the theory that women are gold diggers.
James makes the reader dislike Catherine’s father. He makes him seem like an
insensitive uncaring prick, but I really don’t think he is. Yes I know parents are supposed to think that their child is the most beautiful thing in the world but hey, that theory’s over rated. It’s not that he didn’t love his daughter; he just knew the truth. He was realistic about the entire idea of this strikingly handsome man falling head over heals in love with his daughter who isn’t the greatest looking chick in the world. Something doesn’t quite fit.
...Kingston opinion towards her aunt. It is evident that she no longer believes that her aunt is a kind individual, but believes that she is an evil spirit who does not mean her well.
Catherine has an extremely naive, novel-like view of love. “[Henry’s] name was not in the Pump-room book, and curiosity could do no more. He must be gone from Bath.yet he had not mentioned that his stay would be so short! This sort of mysteriousness, which is always so becoming in a hero, threw a fresh grace in Catherine's imagination around his persona and manners, and increased her anxiety to know more of him,” (34-35). She is obsessed with Henry’s “mysteriousness”, not so dissimilar to the heroines in her novels, who were all in love with tall, dark and mysterious men. Although her naivete and imagination almost get her in trouble with Henry when she thinks his father has killed his mother, her naive obsession with him is the only reason their relationship ever
As the story begins you see that her father had perhaps set her up to expect too high of standards, as no suitor had been good enough for her until after her father’s death. The fact that for most of her life the Negro man, who had been her manservant, was the only person she had contact with and he shows the secretive life that she had lived. As literature and common society outlook gives society distaste for loners, it automatically gives people suspicion of them. Rich, gentle old maid or not.
Washington Square Park is home to thousands of New York University Students, families leisurely strolling through the park on afternoons, people cooling off at the fountain during the summer, couples lounging on the green grass, and even home to the New York City Pillow Fight held during the summer. At the center of Greenwich Village, it provides an escape from the busy traffic and city surrounding it. Most importantly, it is home to the Washington Square Arch.
...e, because she’s too busy running around on some-” (Gaitskill 317) and these words show us how utterly “shitty” (Gaitskill 317) he feels, be it warranted or not. He’s faced with the reality that his wife and daughter are ‘leaving’ him behind, doing whatever necessary to detach themselves from his wretched stubbornness and consequently he’s left miserable and alone to mull over the bitter past and even more difficult present. He begins as a likeable character, but gradually becomes a self-righteous and hateful idiot. But, by the end the reader is left feeling extremely sympathetic for him. Though he’s in fact the bad guy, he gets us to view him as the bad guy whose evil is almost justified, or at least that it’s an inevitable symptom of his difficult childhood, poor marriage, extreme anxiety over what others think of him, and disapproval of his daughters lifestyle.
Daisy wants her daughter to be beautiful and foolish so that way her daughter can find a husband. On page 17 Daisy and Nick are having a conversation about when Daisy had her daughter. She was very happy that the baby was a girl. She tells Nick that she hopes that her little girl is a fool then she says, “that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool”. All Daisy really wants for her little girl is to be like that so she can marry a rich man. Nick explains to the readers in a few paragraphs after that, still on page 17, that it is a different society that Daisy is in. He says “ as if she had asserted her membership in a rather distinguished secret society to which she and Tom belonged”. Daisy knows that she lives in a different type of society. The woman basically does nothing and she wants the same thing for her daughter.
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She always getting into a fight with her mother all the time about her beauty, because she has a habit of looking at herself in the mirror wherever she found one, “…she had a quick, nervous giggling habit of craning her neck to glance into the mirror or checking other people’s faces to make sure her own was alright.” (126). Moreover, her mother always compares her with her sister, June, which makes she feel even more hatred toward her mother, “Why don’t you clean your room like your sister? How’ve you got your hair fixed – what the hell stinks? Hair spray? You don’t see your sister using that junk.” (126). Her mother, whenever she gossips on the phone with her aunties. They always admire June over her, “June did this, June did that, she saved money and helped clean the house and cooked, and Connie couldn’t do a thing, her minded was all filled with trashy daydreams.” (126). To them, June is always the best, because she is good at almost everything and Connie cannot do anything right. Therefore, when Connie’s mother says something or complaint about her beauty, she rolls her eyeballs and wishes that her mother was
... that he resembles the proverbial "poor cat" that wanted the fish but would not get its paws wet. she tells him that her own lack of pity would extend to murdering her own child as it suckled at her breast. With this one terrifying example, she confirms that "the milk of human kindness" is absent in her.
care of her, and wanted the best for his only daughter. Though his love was great, he
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You have to always keep after them” (Fitzgerald 32). For a low-class woman, whose home is the Valley of Ashes, Myrtle has a very snooty personality, as if she was a European monarch, getting their daily diamond embedded into their crown. She is convincing her friends and winning Tom’s heart, this filthy woman is one step closer to achieving her goal. Myrtle also knows what she wants, due to her acting like a European monarch and getting the heart of a rich man to be her master.
She comes off very brass and judgmental. It almost seems as if she takes some type of moral high ground. One example of this is, when they are driving in the car the kids are talking to grandma about what a lousy state both Georgia and Tennessee are. The grandmother comments saying, “In my time, children were more respectful of their native states and their parents and everything else.” Then shortly after that she calls the little boy on the side of the road a Pickaninny. A Pickaninny is an offensive term referring to a small black child. So in one breath while expressing to the children they need to be more respectful, and at the same time saying something that is very disrespectful. Another aspect that makes her unlikable is her lying. An example of this being when, “She said craftily, not telling the truth but wishing that she were, "and the story went that all the family silver was hidden in it when Sherman came through but it was never found...” She lies to her family just so she can get what she wants, which is to go visit the plantation house. This is the lie that ultimately leads to the car crash and then leads to their death. Even Though, I could tell by reading the discussion that many people thought she was not a very good lady, she thought she was a very good and moral woman. On the other hand, this misfit, he is obviously clearly misguided and screwed
Sir Toby is tempting to deceive Maria that Sir Andrew is a great man. But his description is full of mockery - he says one thing but means another.
There is no such thing as silence here. Everything jumps out at once, like the feathers on a peacock, immediately catching your attention. There are uncountable masses of colorful blobs moving, but within that great glob, there are many people, each person moving with the powerful confidence of a lion. The buildings all loom over the people, a grand oak tree above thousands of ants, tying together this concrete landscape. There is a tangible atmosphere of wonder, and you are left in awe of such an astonishing place. This magnificent place is none other than Times Square in New York City.