Boarding House Manipulation

Mary Maloney and Miss Strangeworth are the two main characters in the story. The two of them make up the main parts of the stories. Mary Maloney kills her husband and tries to cover it up and Miss strangeworth is the one who sends the mean notes and is a very fake person, who comes off sweet and innocent, when in reality she is mean and a liar. Mary Maloney kills her husband and tries to cover it up and Miss strangeworth is the one who sends the mean notes and is a very fake person, who comes off sweet and innocent, when in reality she is mean and a liar. Mary Maloney goes to the grocer to cover it up and says, ”Patrick’s decided he’s tired and doesn’t want to eat out tonight,” she told him. “We usually go out Thursdays, you know, and now he’s caught me without any vegetables in the house.” Miss strangeworth is portrayed as a very stuck up and brags to everyone about how her father built the town and how she has been there the whole time. It also introduces her roses. Miss Strangeworth's roses are her life. She tends to them all the time,

This can be seen when she says, “Nobody can’t blame a person for looking” however the George calls her ‘poison’ and ‘jail bait’ meaning the other workers don’t like her at all and describe her using foul words. However this would be expected in this time period. Even though she is married she is still lonely because of problems in their relationship. She even wishes Curley had his other hand broken. She says she had a dream to become a Hollywood and Curley promised he would make her dream come true but that was all lies and instead is being taken advantage of and is in a position where she almost can’t escape. In section 4 we see that she is harsh to the other men who did not go into town, calling them the ‘weaker ones’ and intimidating them. This is ironic because she is also one of the ‘lonely ones’ and she is very cunning but also vain as she tries to seek out those who are weaker to get to the other men and gain more attention.

She realises that she has been living with a stranger, since the whole marriage is a charade to fulfil the expectations of Victorian society.

While the narrator recognizes the great care with which her husband is treating her she seems to constantly feel that she is being ungrateful. She calls herself out in her journal for being a “comparative burden” (Gilman) The room in which the narrator resides has a sturdy bed that is nailed to the floor. The narrator notes that there are bars on the windows and rings hooked into the wall. She wrongly assumes that this room was used as a nursery or gymnasium by the previous owners. As the reader, we are able to instill our own thoughts that this room was in fact built to house someone with a mental disorder. This begs the question of what the house really is, to contain such a room away from decent society.

Landlady is a short story by Roald Dahl. The story is about the youthful man, Billy Weaver, who went to the a little city called Bath to carry out his job. Sadly, he gets into the wrong place and that gets him into trouble. The topic refers to a widespread thought or message that keeps running all through out a story. Now we locate various subjects in the story, The Landlady, by Roald Dahl.

John’s seemingly overwhelming need to ensure she is healthy mentally and physically, drives him to control all aspects of her life. He has his sister come to the mansion to keep an eye on his wife while he’s away in town with his patients. John chose the mansion for its isolation and privacy as he needs to have his wife healthy or it could affect his reputation,. He also picked the nursery as their bedroom as another way to have his wife secluded. The location of the room is on the uppermost level of the house with stairs are gated at the top. There are also bars on the windows as if it is a jail. There is busy ugly peeling yellow wallpaper around the room and they’ve moved in furniture from downstairs. She pleads with John to allow her to stay in the lovely room with veranda on the lower floor. He argues that the nursery with the windows, air and sunlight will be much better for her and he may need a second bed or room for himself. As a compromise, he tells her she could have the cellar whitewashed (239). Either place, the nursery or the cellar, is a prison, which the asylums of the time resembled. John is just containing his wife the only way he knows given his status as a physician. He loves and cares for her and needs her to recover and take care of the family. John is exerting himself by pushing her back into the role she has agreed to by being his

Readers more fully understand the force of Zeena’s controlling personality by observing the effect her domineering tendencies have on both her husband, as well as his new love interest, Mattie. When Zeena takes in homeless Mattie to serve as an unpaid housemaid, Zeena’s harsh, tyrannical proclivities increase. Instead of Zeena’s efforts quelling the growing infatuation between Ethan and Mattie, Zeena’s heightening nastiness only make the lovely, obedient and good-natured Mattie more appealing to Ethan. The lovers now share a common bond and a common enemy, feeling trapped with a monster in their midst. During the first few months of Mattie’s stay, Ethan desires “to see Mattie, defy Zeena, and trembled with fear of the result…”(pg 52). Even after months of staying in the Frome household, Mattie still feels this effect. “since the previous night, a vague dread hung on the sky-line. It was formed by Zeena’s obstinate silence, of Mattie’s sudden look of warning…” (pg

Section § 213 defines the deductibility of medical expenses “to the extent that such expenses exceed 10 percent of adjusted gross income”. The taxpayer’s daughter is a dependent as defined in Section 152(a)(1) for a “qualifying child” due to the fact of the use of the word dependent, insofar as from the facts that were provided. As per § 213(d)(1)(A) and § 213(d)(1)(B ), the medical care and the transportation primarily for and essential to medical care, respectively, is related to the transportation of such medical care for these purposes “for the diagnosis, cure, mitigation, treatment, or prevention of disease, or for the purpose of affecting any structure or function of the body”. The meals and lodgings as well as any transportation costs

Mrs. Bates had worked in the textile mills for a long time, but the town had stirred up rumors that a “boarder” was living with them, and that’s how she made more money. Society also looked down upon her because they said she frequently got drunk and took men for

“The Boarding House” is a story that starts off in the beginning with complications, but the main conflict of the story is that Mrs. Mooney, Mr. Doran, and Polly all want different thing. Mrs. Mooney, mother of Polly, want to find a husband for Polly. She wants to bring Polly out of the lower social class and to find her a marriage that will not end in failure like Mrs. Mooney did. Polly also wants a relationship, but is going about it all wrong. Polly is ruining her reputation in the processes. Mr. Doran is a man who wants to have it all. He wants to have an affair with Polly and not ruin his

No one could find a nicer girl then that,” (Maupassant, 67)This is the common viewpoint of Madam. Which implies that man men my try and impress her with great riches such as jewelry. Instead Mr. Lantin decides to marry her and they love each other very much with only few complications, she enjoys her time at the theater and her taste for fake jewelry. Mr Lantin despises the 2 main thing she loves so he stays away from them. These parts of the story build the exposition because they build up the emotional connection to the characters. The inctiing incident occurs when Madam dies eight days after her last visit to the theater. Mr. Lantin is left alone, while he learns to maintain his house, and manage his basic necessities to survive. “He got a little into debt, like men obliged to live by their wits. At last one morning that he happened to find himself without a cent in his pocket.” (Maupassant, 69) This part of the story is what moves into the rising action. At this point you are wondering how the story may end, will Mr. Lantin die of starvation or find a saving

The picture of Bly painted by the Governess pulsates with men who are not there; their absent presence agitates the Governess's anxiety over her own fragmentation. The master has abandoned her physically and emotionally, Miles has potential but is only a child, and Peter Quint is nothing more than air. Even though they are unavailable to her, the Governess's desire to be what these pseudo-men desire becomes the driving force behind her actions.

Minny Jackson is married to Leroy, and they have 5 children. She is a very strong women, but who doesn’t take anything from anyone but her husband. Leroy often beats her when he is drunk, but she doesn’t want to tell anyone because she is too embarrassed and looks past it because she loves him so much. It all starts out when Minnie is working for Miss Hilly’s Mother, Miss Walters. Minny does nothing wrong until Miss Hilly makes a rumor about her and tells everyone that Minny has been stealing from her mother. She is later fired and jobless. Aibileen is helping Minny by looking for a job, she answers a phone at Leefolts and on the phone is Celia Rae Foote. Celia is a nice, beautiful young lady in her early twenties. She’s looking for a maid, which at this point Aibileen is acting like the person Celia is asking for and she recommends Minny. Celia has never had a maid, and doesn’t know how to act around them. When they meet, Celia is afraid that her house is too much for Minny to clean. Minny thinks that it's absurd

“The Boarding House” is one of the most interesting stories in the book. First we meet Mrs. Mooney, Polly Mooney the main character’s mother. Because of her history, mostly her exhusband she has become a very tough self sufficient women. Then we have Polly and her love entrust Bob Doran. At first it seems like Bob a thirty five year old matured man is taking advantage of this young sweet nineteen year old girl. As the story goes on and the Mrs. Mooney knows of the affair and lets it happen and then wants something from it we are still not sure. Then Mr. Doran’s indasigen when he was thinking of what had to be done. “Perhaps they could be happy together.......” It just made him seem so innocent and like a victim(Joyce P.58). But just like the two other stories I discussed the end tells all. Just before Mr. Doran was going to go down to meet with Mrs. Mooney Polly was sitting with him on the bed crying

The narrator describes the entire mansion from the hedges to the gates, to the garden as “the most beautiful place ever”. All of it is beautiful except for the bedroom in which she is kept in, but again the room selection was not her choice. “I don’t like our room a bit. I wanted one downstairs that opened on the piazza and had roses all over the window, and such pretty old-fashioned chintz hangings! But John would not hear of it.” The room had previously been a child’s nursery, and had bars on the window. Though she recently had a child, her newborn did not occupy this nursery. The baby was looked after by Johns’ sister, something he had also arranged, and the narrator had very little contact with her child. As the story progresses, the narrator begins to fill more and more trapped by the room and completely obsessed with the “repellent, almost revolting” yellow wallpaper that surrounds her. In many of her secret