Donnamarie: A Short Story

In Donna Beegle’s article An Insider’s Perspective: The Donna Beegle Story, purpose and mastery are two traits that helped her throughout life. Growing up, Donna Beegle didn’t see why education was important. The people she grew up with people that didn’t have an education higher than an eighth grade level, because many of them dropped out, got married, and started a family. Then she followed their footsteps. As she went through obstacles with her husband, four pregnancies (two of them living), and low-wage jobs leading to financial problems, Donna Beegle and her family kept moving from place to place. As years passed by, she got a divorced and had to raise her children alone. She eventually found a program, which its goal were to help single women gain an education skills to earn a living for their families. After going through the program, she decided to get her GED and continue in furthering her education. Entering college was tough for her, because she didn’t know how to talk or write properly, until one of professors, Dr. Bob Fulford decided to offer her help to correct her grammar. She accepted the offer saying, “Yes. Please teach me how to talk like you, because no one thinks I am smart. No one asks my opinion. I feel like no one can hear me.” As time went on, she got more help with other professors that Dr. Fulford connected her with. Eventually, she got her bachelor’s degree, to master’s, all the way to doctorate level.

Due to their behavior, both men lead their wives to rebel. John’s controlling behavior causes the narrator to abandon him by going completely mad. First, she questions John’s pronouncements. The narrator believes that congenial work, with excitement and change would do her good (p.297). Next, she focuses on the wallpaper. She describes its negative features noting that patches are gone as if school boys wore it out (p.298). Upset by her husband’s actions, the narrator decides to begin writing in secret. . It reaches the point where the narrator has to hide her writings from him, because he gets upset if she even writes a word (p.298). -After time passes, we see her obsession grow. John seems to be oblivious to the narrator’s conditions, telling her “you know the place is doing you good” (p.299). She notices that the pattern is torturing (p.303). Finally, she begins to see a woman hiding behind the pattern (p.304). Looking for the woman in the pattern gives her something to look forward to (p.305). Ultimately she comes to believe that she is the woman in the wallpaper and wants to free herself. She begins peeling off the paper through the night, and by morning removes all the paper she could while standing (p.307). The narrator even begins to contemplate jumping out of the window, but does not

Women in the early Victorian Era were very limited in their individualism as they were expected to conform to societal norms. The narrator craves freedom from the society she lives in, dreaming of having a room "downstairs that opened on the piazza and [has] roses all over the window." (Gilman 3) The narrator wants nothing more than to be able to express herself, yet she is held back as she reveals that "John would not hear of it." (Gilman 3) She knows her place is not to question her husband, so she finds other creative outlets that she keeps secret. She knows that these outlets of creativity are found, she risks her husband’s reputation as she would disrespect him. Throughout the narrative, the heroine acknowledges the importance of status in society. Even when her madness drives her to contemplate committing suicide, she says, “I wouldn't do it. Of course not. I know well enough that a step like that is improper and might be misconstrued.” (Gilman 15) Even in the most stressful times, it is the fear of ruining her husband’s reputation that keeps her from obtaining what she wants. Finally, the narrator breaks free of her confinement by tearing off the wallpaper, saying, "I've got out at

The first day they were all wearing dresses and Suzy noticed that a girl had her old dress on and it was Leah, and that irritated Suzy(page 2 paragraph 1). The next step was for each student to get assigned a helper and Suzy and Leah got paired up. They don’t like each other so Suzy asked for a new partner, but Mr.Forest said no, so they were stuck. Suzy really wanted Leah to wear a different dress it was really irritating Suzy(page 3 paragraph 1). When Suzy went to grab Leah's paper to correct it Leah shrugged like she was going to get hit and Suzy did not understand. Nothing was getting better so Suzy’s mom told her she should invite Leah over for dinner one night and they would have to get a special pass for doing that. Leah asked Suzy what her name was and she told her full name and Leah asked what was she named after and it was a book and Leah started laughing. “Suzy brings me many treats and expects me to be grateful for them, but how can I she treats me like a pet.” Suzy noticed at lunch that Leah wasn’t eating and putting the food in her pockets and Suzy started wondering if she even eats. Leah got moved up to Suzy’s grade because

While she is watering the plants, a couple of men walk up to their neighbors, the Aarons, house and put envelopes in his mailbox. She does not do anything, but when she sees an old woman named Susan Williams walk up to the Aaron house and kicks the dirt and spits on their house. Jasmine does something. She yells, “Hey Ma’am! That is not your property!” Susan replies, “Why is your business as to what I’m doing?” “I see that you are doing something wrong, so you need to stop.” Susan starts to walk over towards Jackson’s house and gets in her face. “You need to mind your own business and I will mind my own.” “It is not ok to ruin other people’s property just because you do not like them.” A couple hours later, Susan goes back to the Jackson’s house while Jasmine is on her shift. She start to pick all of the flower and plants. She leaves a note for Jasmine Jackson. The notes said “Mind your own business stupid

She moves into a new home with her husband, John. She describes the new home as a “colonial mansion, a hereditary estate, I would say a haunted house” (Gilman). Her description of the home is a negative feeling she has towards the house. The description of the home being haunted shows her terror because she sees it as an imprisonment. In this home, there is a yellow wallpaper in the room she is staying in. She describes the wallpaper, as “the color is repellent, almost revolting; a shouldering unclean yellow” (Gilman). In this wallpaper, she tries to see the figure out the patterns and comes to find a woman. In comes to conclusion that she is living life like the woman in the wallpaper. In the statement, “And she is all the time trying to climb through. But nobody can climb through that pattern, it strangles so; I think that is why it has so many heads” (Gilman). She empathizes with the woman in the wallpaper because they are both in pattern that they cannot break through. The pattern being in a home that feels that haunted and with a man that watches every move and empowers her through her

But because of the embarrassments at school (“My voice was apt to come out squeaky”, “My hands became slippery with sweat”, (etc.) she was determined to not attended the Christmas dance (“Formerly I had considered falling off my bicycle and spraining my ankle and I had tried to manage this;” (etc.)). After failing multiple times she decided to go the dance, which was a dramatic change in her emotion. She wore her beautiful dress and let her friend Lonnie do her hair and make-up (“I sat in front of the mirror and Lonnie stood behind me, fixing my hair”), after finishing she became exited. After the long walk to the dance her personally takes a turn when the first dance was the most popular boy “Mason Williams”, and he blows her off (“He took his hand off my waist and dropped my arm”). Nobody wanted to dance with her; her emotion became sad and upsetting (“Please me, please me, and I locked my fingers behind my back”). Therefore she began to hide until a young lady in the washroom approached her; this introduced a different role in her because the lady was older and fun (“Mary

Priscilla Vanderwaale had never been so humiliated in her entire life. God, how pathetic was she? To think that a pretty dress and a nice party would magically mean something. She had watched too many fucking movies. Set her expectations too high. This wasn’t middle school anymore, she couldn’t buy her way into popularity, not even for one measly night.

"Hey get back here!" rocks crumbled under my feet as I sprinted across the cement floor. I glanced behind me with a small grin as the baker of a little cafe tries to catch up to me.

Her problem is she wants to build things and take shop but Mr.Keogh says no because she’s a girl. Al gets very frustrated because she has to take cooking and sewing. Al’s teacher Mr.Richard says he don’t see no reason why she can’t take shop with other boys. So Mr.Richard told to come to his house for some leason. Al and her friend went to Mr.Richard house and took some leason. Now that al knows how to make a bookshelf Mr.Keogh wants to let girls take whatever they want instead of making them take cooking and sewing. Al’s teachers are very proud of her because she showed Mr.Keogh that girls can do whatever boys can do whatever boys can do. This story took places in mr richard

They just got a summer home and she wonders how they will afford it. The woman suffers from a “nervous depression” which was diagnosed by her husband. Her husband’s constantly belittles her illness, thoughts, and concerns. The woman thinks that being active, and having interesting work will help her illness. This is why she wants to work on the house and write. However, the treatment her husband gave her was to do nothing; so she sneaks up to the attic to write. She writes and fixates on the wallpaper, which she finds revolting. Throughout the story John fixates and tries to “treat” his wife’s illness, while the wife fixates and fantasizes at the wallpaper. She imagines a nursery and having a child. After a while she begin to see women creeping around the wallpaper, so she tried to get rid of them. She begins destroying the wallpaper, and not long after she thinks that she stuck in it too. She tries to escape herself, then John breaks through the locked door and

Aviane. Leah Martin Strauss somberly fingered the blister of pink pills from it’s nondescript white and pink wrapper with a resigned sigh. For a soon to be sixteen year old young girl, getting on birth control for the first time is usually an exciting, transformative occasion but Leah had a far more pessimistic outlook: She might just need it to protect herself. She gingerly peeled the small pill out of the blister and ingested it; just one week from that day, she could very well be happy to have taken this precaution.

It was uncanny, the amount of money that some bank robbers actually get away with: a staggering 2 million dollars in cash. The couple giggled like school kids, climbed in the Crown Victoria and sped off.

Section M, row one, seat 16, floor. Stage to my left hundreds of fans around me. Sophie and I look around anticipation as the lights dim. The screaming starts but I can barely hear it over the pounding of my own heart. Then I hear it blazing in the speakers the opening song is playing and then there they are. Harry, Louis, Liam, and Nile I'll step out on stage. They all seem to glow a little due to the spotlights on them. It's all very surreal. "that's actually them!" I yell at Sofie. I couldn't believe they were actually right there in front of me and then the singing starts. Everyone in the crowd sings along, or at least the ones that aren't crying (me, I was crying). I see fireworks but I can't hear them over everything else going on but

I should’ve hit him in the head but I was so scared. It reeks of gasoline and he gets back up and yanks the pool out of my hand and drags me into the room and starts pouring gasoline on the bed and pushing me down. As he pushes me I roll my ankle. He pushes me down runs out of the room. I hear him lock the door behind him. He’s going to burn this house down with me in it. I hear him going through the drawers in the house and I hear him trying to light matches. Then I hear the whoosh of flame and now I got to figure out how I’m going to get out of here. The window it too small for me to climb out and the room is filling with flame and smoke. I sit down and cry not knowing what to do and then I hear sirens. I get a glimmer of hope and I start screaming help. The house it already up in flames and ever second it’s getting bigger. I look at the door and I know it’s my only way out of this room so I run as fast as I can at the door and it doesn’t budge. I do it again and the door falls down. I’m coughing cause the smoke if filing u in my lungs and I still feel uneasy from whatever he had that made me pass out. I crawl to what I can barely see of a door that outside and I bang on