Analysis Of ' Mrs. Ames '

‘Marrying Ameera’ is a novel written by Rosanne Hawke and it features a teenage girl called Ameera who is facing difficulties because of her father Hassan and his Pakistani cultural beliefs. Her father being greatly influenced by the Pakistani culture and beliefs wants his daughter to follow it too without any disagreeance. This makes him the creator of Ameera’s difficulties. Whilst Ameera lives in the Australian culture, she is making Hassan worried and Hassan is making decisions for Ameera, based on his beliefs and culture. Culture is also to blame for creating Ameera’s difficulties because honour is accomplished by the following culture.

In “The Story of an Hour” the main character Louise Mallard has just found out that her husband, Brently Mallard, died in a train accident. She did not hear the story as many women have heard the same, (527) which means that she didn’t immediately think that her life was over and she could not go on without her husband, she thought of the rest of her life with open arms and excitement. She could see in the open square before her house the tops of trees that were all aquiver with the new spring life. (527) she was looking forward to a whole new life, a life of her own. Of course she was sad and knew that she would mourn her husband, be sad when she saw him lying in the casket at his funeral. And yet she had loved him—sometimes. Often she had not. (528) She is saying she did love him but not most of the time. While she was alone in her room staring out the window a feeling came over her that she was unsure of at first, but when she let herself go she realized it was freedom, triumph, and victory. She kept whispering to herself “free, body and soul free!”(528) She and her sister walked down the stairs together to find her husband, Brently, walking through the front door, she died of a heart attack as soon as she saw him.

The song “I Get a Kick out of you” was originally composed by ‘’Cole Albert porter’’, who unlike other Broadway composers, wrote the lyrics as well as the music for his songs. Through this particular song of his, he was trying to express the singer’s love and his relative disinterest in perfume, champagne, cocaine, and planes. It was published in November 1934 and introduced in ‘Anything Goes’ by Ethel Merman. This song has since then, been covered on numerous occasions by popular singers such as Frank Sinatra, each with their own unique interpretation and style of the song. In this paper, I will be comparing the version of “I Get a Kick Out of You” Performed by Ethel Merman with the cover version of Ella Fitzgerald (on Ella Fitzgerald Sings

This explains her sanity was gone and she was unhappy with herself. Eventually the character isolates herself in a room, away from her family as she examined the outside world through her window. The irony in that scene is that she was trapped behind the outside world, just as she was trapped within herself. As she spent her days in the white room, she began to develop different routines but none of them satisfied her. She was unhappy with herself until she tried once more to transform herself once again as a wife and mother. During her last attempt of being a housewife she took the time to knit two sweaters for her husband and son. The sweaters were both dull and gray as in lifeless, which is ironic towards the way the character perceived herself or surroundings.

Why does Holden continuously judge people based on their physical appearance? Could this be a projection of his insecurities or a reflection of his mental health?

This theory applies to Mrs. H. as she is struggling with accepting the death of her husband and her own feelings about her immortality. Due to her immobility issues, she is very socially isolated. She reports most of her friends have passed away, although she does have periodic visits from the pastor of her church and from her neighbors. She sees her great grandson two to three times a month and enjoys encouraging him with his school endeavors. Her daughter visits almost every weekend. She is attempting to establish a new meaning to this new stage of her life. She currently fluctuates from hopelessness and loneliness to a grudging acceptance of her current life changes.

She started to see beautiful things from her window that represented her new life. She wasn’t used to seen those things like this when her husband was around, because she was submissive to her husband and trapped. Another part of the story that i found ironic was when Kate Chopin started to describe the scene outside the window. She described the outside as “The delicious breathe of rain, the notes of a distant song, countless sparrows were twittering and patches of blue sky”. At this point is when i realized that she wasn’t sad for her husband and this was a sign of a new life.

In the short story “Miss Brill”, the primary conflict is internal between herself: “But today she passed the baker’s boy, climbed the stairs, went into the little dark room—her room like a cupboard—and sat down on the red eiderdown. She sat there for a long time… But when she put the lid on she thought she heard something crying” (Mansfield 105). Miss Brill realizes she is no longer a part of the youth. She old, and now sees herself as isolated from the play she used to be part of. She “heard something crying” (Mansfield 105). This, results an internal conflict with herself of how she feels. Likewise, “The Yellow Wallpaper” also plays an internal conflict between herself: “I did write for a while in spite of them; but it does exhaust me a good deal—having to be so sly about it, or else meet with heavy opposition” (Gilman 473). The protagonist is living further away from society where she is treated as an individual, isolated by others, even her baby. She is given limited opportunities controlled by her husband and her brother as an attempt to do what’s best for her as a sick woman. They both force her to accept the idea of her own thoughts do not qualify reality, which represents the insanity of loneliness.

“how poor a part he, her husband, had played in her life. He watched her while she (wife) slept as though he and she had never lived together as man and wife” (Joyce,

“You'll have to jump.' 'I'll jump.' 'Jump!' Major Danby cried. Yossarian jumped. Nately's whore was hiding just outside the door. The knife came down, missing him by inches, and he took off” (Heller 350). Yossarian ends his dialogue in a cheery and fun way because he is finally going to be free from the oppression of the US military. This also shows his increased morals, because in the beginning, he would have just killed the girl for trying to kill him. He also uses arrangement to show America at the time like, “ Heller's satirical masterpiece tells us something about the madness of America” (Pilger, John). This shows how the novel portrays the insanity of the war at this time and how these people need help or to get out. The main part of the novel is just the insane adventures Yossarian goes on throughout his horrifying experience.

Steinbeck uses this passage to introduce the character of Cathy Ames, a manipulative and evil woman of East of Eden. As Steinbeck described, Cathy was a monster not solely because of her evil actions nor her manipulative nature, but from her lack of reasons for her wrongdoings. From a young age, Cathy started her evil actions. However, she was very clever in perpetrating them, never receiving any blame or punishment for them. One instance was when she arouses two boys from the neighborhood and makes them look as if they raped him.

Holden is in a cab on his way to Ernie’s and after he asks the driver with Holden. When Holden asks why he is “sore” about it, the cab driver denies being upset. Holden seems to constantly anger people throughout the story due to his blunt way of addressing topics and his inability to see the positive side of things. The cab driver on the other hand, is clearly upset, but is instead choosing to be passive aggressive by denying his anger. I do not like when people are passive aggressive. I would much rather someone talk to me directly and maturely if they are upset.

The author emphasizes the drastic contrast in the speaker's emotional state through the setting she finds herself in. She is taken from the comfort of her home and thrust both an environment and mind state of isolation. However, the setting also helps fuel the hatred that develops in the wife's mind for her husband. The speaker is ambivalent of her feelings for her

Author Peter Griffin supports this by saying, “To the eyes, the way men know the world, reveals vacancy, absence, sadness, and lingering regret.” (Griffin). This relates to the wife’s sadness and loneliness because of the lack of attention she is receiving from her husband. This is why the wife is extremely disappointed when she goes outside and

The reader can hear her voice through her descriptive words, it shows how the author feels. These descriptive words show us the voice and the voice seems sad and lonely with no help in sight. “Her body was wrapped round the pain as a damp sheet is folded over a wire.”(Woolf pg.124) This synonym also shows how much pain Mrs. Grey's body is in that she feels like her body is being bent in half and weak. The synonym shows the reader of the essay that it sounds sad and painful. Also when Woolf used the word “marionette” you can kinda hear the voice of pain and how she feels like a puppet and not being able to do much at all. When woolf compared Mrs. Grey to a rook on a barn door with a nail through but still leaving I could kinda hear some determination from the essay because it shows how she's been through so much and lost so much but made it through it and still leaving.