Will You Please Be Quiet Please Analysis

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“Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?”

The story revolves around Ralph Wyman, a high school teacher that formed a family with his wife, Marian and two children. One afternoon, Marian makes the mistake of asking Ralph if he remembers about a party that happened years ago. In this party, Marian had an encounter with Mitchell Anderson, a kiss. However, Ralph insists Marian tell him the truth, in which he always believed that Marian did not only kissed Mitchell but had slept with him that night. Marian tries to change the topic of conversation, trying to calm down her husband and avoiding to answer his constant insistence of her telling the “full” story. The readers can notice that Marian is scared and tensed by the way the

The laws were moderately enforced until the feminist movement of the 1960's started bringing the problems of domestic abuse to the attention of the media. By the 1980's most states had adopted legislation regarding domestic violence. According to Women Against Abuse, in the late 1960s, the second-wave feminist activists ignited the Battered Women’s Movement. Women experiencing violence began to break the silence, prompting widespread attitudinal change that the need for domestic violence services is a collective issue rather than an individual problem. Women banded together to provide information services, such as shelters run from homes, to support each

We can see both represented in Ralph. He feels powerful and he feels manly when he demonstrates his authority towards Marian, in the event in which he commits domestic violence. However, he also feels powerless and weakness when he starts isolating and thinking about his future. He feels powerless because he cannot do anything about the event that, in some way, traumatized him.
In conclusion, “Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?” goes through issues, such as lack of communication, individual identity, failure of the American Dream and Domestic Violence. Also, the self-isolation of the main character and marriage. The author, Raymond Carver, illustrated all of this themes in his story and represented them in his main character, Ralph Wyman. He went through issues, such as domestic violence, and how at that moment, women didn’t have power over the man of the