Alice hated imperfect, sloppy looking reports more than she hated lateness. The idea of a misspelling, or an incorrect photo, a missing chart, or God-forbid an incorrect color scheme—that would send her into a frenzy. So much so, she would stay up all night on her stylish, albeit uncomfortable sofa, with her laptop neatly placed on her legs working on her report until every single detail was exactly the way she envisioned it.
When it come to her work, Alice wouldn’t except anything less than perfect. Although this didn’t spill into all areas of her life (her apartment was always a mess with laundry pilled high for weeks on end, and she always took days to reply to non-work related texts), but it was exactly this striving for flawlessness
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Max doesn’t know why Alice works so hard, admittedly she has a good job that isn’t easy to come by, but she doesn’t earn commission on the properties, and that’s where the money is made. He also doesn’t completely understand why instead of having an alcohol infused night out (with the added potential to meet the love of her life), Alice will spend the night working on a report just to give to Cameron. Max doesn’t push her further on the matter because Alice will say the same thing; that Cameron is going to be a partner soon, and then she’ll get a promotion and the commission will be rolling in, but Max knows that’s not solely the case. It’s true that Cameron is intended to make partner, and Alice will be in line for a promotion, but her relationship with Cameron is somewhat complicated. On the surface its simple—Alice and Cameron are two friends that work together and have known each other since college (a now distance memory). Alice dated Cameron’s roommate for 4 years and he was the one to introduce them. They appear to others like close friends, relatives even. Cameron has said that Alice is like his sister to others, though he might not say it to Alice for fear of pushing her away, and Alice would never imply that Cameron is like a brother because that would rule out any romantic involvement between them. It isn’t crazy that
Both of these conflicts between the individuals were instigated due to envy. The conflict within the novel between Alice and Avalon is evident in the quote from page 28“ Alice’s eyes had narrowed when Mitch greeted me”. This particular quote provides the reader with the sole reason as to why the conflict between Alice and Avalon was initiated. This quote, moreover, conveys Alice’s fondness of Mitch and how she did not want Avalon to develop a relationship with him as she was perceived as a threat to Alice and her social status thus the need for Alice to actuate in a hostile demeanor towards Avalon. Furthermore, envy is the prime instigator of the conflict Avalon experienced between both Alice and Sukey which had detrimental impacts on Avalon’s self-esteem and the people around her. This is evident in the quote from page 260 “ I was jealous. I really wanted to have a best friend and be popular. This quote reveals the sole purpose of the conflict which was initiated between her and Avalon due to her envious feelings of Avalon’s “perfect” life in comparison to her own, which then further led to her need to cope with her emotions through inaugurating a hate campaign towards Avalon under the guise “ Dragon Girl” which prompts Avalon to demean herself as she was seldomly subjected to any form of social conflict prior to migrating to the
Later in this same situation, Dana wonders why she took insults from Alice, eventually landing on the fact that it was, “Guilt, maybe. In spite of everything, my life was easier than hers” (page 235). Alice and Dana’s similarities in personality and ways of thinking truly exhibit Butler’s intentions of mirroring their characters. Alice is Dana if Dana was raised in such conditions, showing the variations of how the conditions of the antebellum south affect those living in
Audrey is presented as the “Perfectionist”, and is one of the only characters where their perception can actually apply well to their actual being. I thought of Audrey as the obsessive overachiever, someone who is intensely committed (almost to a fault) to school and extracurricular activities. She repeatedly mentions being overwhelmed by school, with her enormous workload of classes and school activities causing her to start losing a stable sleep schedule. Despite being overwhelmed, it’s evident on page 82 that she doesn’t believe she’s doing enough, with her thinking not about her own stress but about how she “knew a handful of students involved in even more activities”. I can relate to this, being that every year in the yearbook I feel
Alice Ball’s life started as the ideal childhood. Her grandfather was a success photographer and her dad was a aspiring lawyer. Then tragedy
Like Lucy, she grows up in a middle-class environment in the 1940s. Before she is shot, everyone thinks Alice is adorable, and she is constantly chosen by her father over her siblings. But the aftermath of the incident shows the fickleness of people: with an injured, blind eye, people stop admiring her; her father stops picking her first. She gets picked on and bullied in school, and even admits to beating up one kid who teased her. After getting a surgery that removes more unseemly parts of her injury, she gains confidence in herself, makes friends, and gets the “guy of her dreams.”
Those tasks might be as simple as following the Cheshire Cat to the Hatter or as difficult as getting her “Muchness” back. With each problem Alice resolves, she becomes less and less fearful about things and begins to focus a lot easier. Most of the time, she’s always on her feet and ready for the next task no matter how unusual it seems. When she’s tasked with saving the Hatter from the Red Queen’s grasp, we see just how confident and how nimble she’s become. By the time she arrived at the Red Queen’s castle, we see that she’s learnt to control the fear inside of her and keep it hidden from the surrounding world.
Letters to Alice on First Reading Jane Austen by Fay Weldon gives the reader unique insight into the social divisions portrayed in Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen. It affirms the beliefs held by Jane Austen but offers a new perspective of Austen’s beliefs.
Alice was a young and confused girl. She got mixed up into the wrong crowd and went through a lot. Besides being with the wrong crowd Alice relates to wave two feminism greatly. She was thought of to be an object because she was women. She was sexuality assulted a few times. She would of had to go to an unsafe abortion clinic if she had the right connections to even get her associated with an abortion doctor. Birth control was a controversial item during the time, and it was hard to take because once a day you have to take it but you have to take it every day at the same time.
The husband notices that something is amiss with Alice when she doesn’t seem to keep track of conversations in a party they were invited and forgets the names of the people she had been earlier introduced to. When she was preparing for the lecture she took forty five minutes preparing and when she gets into the class she has no idea about what she had prepared.
This week I attended a seminar for a topic called ALICE, ALICE stands for Asset Limited, Income Constrained, Employed. I learned that the ALICE Report places a spotlight on a large population of hardworking people who work just as hard as anyone else, yet have little or no savings, and are one emergency from falling into poverty. The presenter talked about how much of the population is ALICE and in Wisconsin, the ALICE population is 42% but in Manitowoc alone it’s 41%, before 2007 these percentages were lower but increased after 2007 throughout the whole nation. More of ALICE’s households are caucasian than they are of any other race. The household survival budget of the average ALICE household is based on 5 things; local housing, childcare, food,
"I look at my homely sketch. It doesn't need anything. Even through the river in my eyes I can see that. It isn't perfect and that makes it just right" (198). This relates to her character traits because it shows her big emotions/expressions and that those emotions change her personality and reputation and that all gives her encouragement to finally finish and like her
Even though the dynamic of Annie and Mae’s relationship rarely involves talking to each other sweetly, this exchange seems to hint at a lack of trust between Annie and Mae–trust that would presumably exist between two best friends. Because Annie spies on Mae, she gains private information about her best friend that causes her to make a bad judgement about two coworkers she does not directly deal with. In other words, invading Mae’s privacy causes Annie to become too intertwined in Mae’s personal issues, which just exacerbates the situation. In this situation, what links Annie and Mae together is not friendship, but problems; this unhealthy kind of relationship leads to more problems, like the lack of trust between the two friends. Thus, a lack
Anna is Alice’s oldest daughter; she’s a successful lawyer and is married to Charles, also a lawyer. Anna is strong and fiercely independent just like her mother. Anna deals with her mother’s disease by suggesting that if her mom “thinks for a second” then maybe she’ll be able to remember things (p. 173). Anna, however still makes time to care for her mom when her dad is away.
Patrice and Adam put a pause on their friendship when they went their marry ways, but once they see each other, it is like they have never been apart picking up where they left off. At first Emma is really exited to see Adam, until he introduces her to Vanessa. Emma is not willing to admit she has feeling for Adam because she doesn’t want to get hurt. This reviles that Emma has developed feeling for Adam as being more than just friends. They chat for a bit about how Emma has just moved to L.A. to intern at a local hospital. And quickly things begin to get awkward and no one is saying anything. Not liking the situation, Vanessa tell Adam they have to go, but before they leave Emma gives Adam her phone number, where both promise to keep in touch but end up not follow through their promises. Their friendship is not intentionally nurtured it will disintegrate. In Knapp’s relational entropy, all friendships need to have momentum and need to be nurtured to last. Distance or time change relationship so if they would have kept in touch, they could have kept their friendship balanced. They forget about each other and they go on living their own life, like they have never been in each there’s life in any way. For a friendship to work both parties need to put in effort in order for it to flourish and remain intact.
She becomes very reactive and unapologetic. Her final step in harming her marriage is stonewalling. Alice starts to pull away from Michael and his love. He wants to help her, but she is not ready to accept that yet. She makes is difficult for the entire family to heal by doing this. She becomes withdrawn and pushes away those who love her. These things are very are very apparent in this couple’s relationship.