Character Analysis: Mrs. Mirabel Fallwell

Mildred Pierce, by James M. Cain, begins in pre-Depression California, and ends during World War II times, also in California. The main character, Mildred Pierce, is a very attractive housewife of 29, raising two daughters, Ray and Veda. Although Mildred loves both her daughters, Veda is a particular obsession with Mildred. She constantly slaves away throughout the novel to do whatever she can to make Veda happy, despite the constant abuse and deception Veda inflicts upon Mildred. After a divorce from her first husband, Bert, in the opening pages of the novel, Mildred is forced to sacrifice her pride and become a waitress in order to support her family. If Veda were ever to find out, she would be appalled; a constantly recurring

Mayella Ewell has caused an uproar in Maycomb, Alabama. Accusing Tom Robinson of rape and facing Atticus Finch in the courtroom, she is not a powerful force and that will be confirmed by her class, race, and gender in Harper Lee’s, To Kill a Mockingbird. Not to mention her class is unquestionably horrible and she lives behind a dump in the house of a pig farmer. Her status is only slightly better than a Negros and even though Mayella is a white woman and should be protected, she has been abused by her father and other whites and Negroes will not help her.

Love Medicine is a wonderfully written novel that has many different points of view. We see in the beginning the death of June. This novel speaks a lot about death. While it is not just centered on death, it does have many instances on it and how it affected the people around them. Death the one thing guaranteed in life. Louise Erdrich used one person’s death to start stories on her life. Erdrich tells of both what someone dying was thinking and what someone watching thought.

At five o'clock PM Maribel Fallwell fell out of her twelfth story apartment onto the pavement, dead. Her heir, Jerry Jarvis, is being charged for homicide, but he claims he was at the other side of the apartment.

Daisy Buchanan in the novel is portrayed as a “petty rich girl”. She has no obligation whatsoever. From the beginning, she is viewed as someone who flirts with all men. Every move she makes is designed to allure men. For example, she speaks really softly so that men have to get close to her to hear her. Nick says,“She’s got an indiscreet voice, I remarked. Its full of, I hesitated. Her voice is full of money, he said suddenly. That was it. I’d never understood before. It was full of money that was the inexhaustible charm that rose and fell into it, the jingle of it, the cymbals’ song of it”. Nick is judging Daisy once again by saying that her voice is full of money.  Only women are ridiculed to that extent. Sadly, Daisy has low expectations for herself and other women, when her daughter was born, she

Personally I do not like Mrs. Dubose very much at all. I just think that she is a rude old woman that has an addiction, and I don’t really respect people very much if they have an addiction. Once I hear that someone is addicted to something that does it for me and they could be the nicest person in the whole world, but I don’t think I would look at them the same anymore. I don’t even understand why she is so mean to the children when they walk by her like for example she says, “Don’t say hey to me, you ugly girl! You say good afternoon, Mrs. Dubose” (page 133). They did nothing to her so there is no reason for her to be rude to them. I do believe with Atticus’s assessment that she is the bravest person he ever met because she was trying to

The lesson I learned while researching Clara Barton was to always keep moving forward with your life, even if you aren’t entirely sure where it is going. Clara started out as a teacher. That experience did help her with her people skills, which she lacked before, but when unfortunate events pushed her to move on, she did. She didn’t look back, and she started the next chapter of her life. Then when her father passed, Clara decided to go to the battlefield, and this started her extensive career in nursing. In this way she found her true passion and purpose. From her story it can be learned to always move forward with your life, and never give

Sheá Marie McKnight. This childhood friend shaped my background, entire identity, and my future life. From kindergarten, she was always by my side helping me through thick and thin. Unexpectedly at the age of 14, on April 7, 2015, she passed away. When I heard of this news, I was completely traumatized, but looking back on my senior year of high school, this event was transformative, both good and bad. I mentioned before that she is currently present in my life. I believe that through every event and decision I make, she is guiding me nevertheless.

Mollie- Mollie is a burden to everyone in Animal Farm, like always she struggles on doing several things. Mollie is always late for work, she dissapears everytime midway while everyone else is working, this shows that she is self centered, she only cares about herself. As always Mollie wants a lot of attention, in the chapter she accepted the luxury treatment from Pilkington as known as Old Farmer’s neighbor, the farmer did several things by stroking Mollie’s coat and feeding her sugar, this shows us that Mollie is unwilling to give up the luxuries that she enjoyed as the wealthy class. Eventually Mollie ran away.

When I knocked on the door to get Ms. Autumn from her classroom, she gave me a huge smile and excitement as though she was ecstatic to see me. She was ready to go before I could finish talking with her teacher. She was wearing her favorite team jersey, which was Alabama. As we made our way to the library I asked her about her trip to New Orleans to see her mother; she told me the trip was great and that she enjoyed spending time with her family. My client told me the only thing she disliked was the drive because it was a very long one. She also stated that her mother’s next door neighbors caught their roof on fire because they were outside popping firecrackers. The attitude I received from Ms. Autumn was happiness, joy and love from which she

Ms. Roseworth is a 64 year old woman living in the city of Boston. She has lived in England for most of her life, but moved to Boston because of a her education. After finishing her education, she loved the city so much that she decided to stay there. Ms. Roseworth definitely has enough money to appreciate and afford the finer things in life. She has poured her earnings into many fine china sets which she collects from around the world. Currently, Ms. Roseworth leads the boring life of an accountant. What this character really craves for is some excitement in her tedious life. Her dream is to become an FBI agent who can solve any crime. She thinks that this job would suit her well because of her ability to solve mysteries and think logically.

Who are you? What/ who has the authority to formalize who you are? Does the exterior appearance you’re portrayed as, match the truth that may possibly be hiding just beneath? In the globally acknowledged novel To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee included the character Mayella Ewell to convey the idea that who someone truly is, is often obscured by society due to a lack of empathy

Mrs.Grindstaff is a secure base for not only all her students but other kindergardeners as well as her previous students. Mrs.Grindstaff is a very popular teacher that is always available for students. Students approach her constantly as mentioned in the book to communicate affection, share stories, and and are happy to see her. From observing I could tell that many of her students have a secondary attachment towards Ms.Grindstaff as she is there safe haven and as stated in the book by theorist John Bowlby and Mary Ainsworth it is perfectly normal. Her students feel very comfortable with Ms.Grindstaff however not so much with other kindergarten teachers when they do rotations. While I was observing I noticed students personality types as well as what type of learners they are. For example I would consider Finnegan as a insecure learner. The book states “ Insecure learners tend to be stressed, easily excited and anxious” Finnegan stresses academically and gets excited easily with small things. I would also describe her classroom B1 as equal mixture of resilient, overcontrolled and undercontrolled personalities. A clear example of student who is undercontrolled would be Shay. Shay is energetic, impulsive, active, assertive and finds it hard to concentrate. (6.2) He is constantly rocking his chair, talking to other students, and constantly gets asked to refocus by Mrs.Grindstaff. I believe all her students are good fit since Mrs.Grindstaff creates an environment for highly

The protagonist, Mrs. Clarissa Dalloway, grows in her actions throughout the story. The flashbacks to the present day show her growth more than things happening during the day of the party. Clarissa grows as an ambitious woman by denying Peter Walsh's marriage proposal. He is the man of her dreams, at first. As she realizes that that’s not what’s best for her she denies him and moves on. “Peter… had no heart, no brain, nothing but the manners and breeding of an English gentleman.” (pg. 7) She has too many aspirations to settle for a man not up to her standards.