Dying: A Short Story

When she ties Bianca’s hands and questions her about her suitors, Kate realizes how terrible she was acting toward her sister. She was only acting this way out of jealousy of her sister and her quest for love. Her anger and rudeness toward others actually was a mask for her deep insecurity of herself. Kate feels as though everyone, even her own father, prefers her sister over her. She does not feel valued or loved especially after her father said, “[Bianca] is your treasure” (2.1 32). Kate must have felt as though she would never find anyone to love and that she would die an old widow. Little did she know she was about to meet the man that would completely throw her for a

Katelyn had started off by telling me about how after the last sickness had ended (The weird influenza that the doctors could never figure out what it truly was.) and how the villagers had all gone off and gotten their pitchforks and torches to chase my grandmother out of village after having blamed it all on her. (Figuratively speaking, of course,) Then that was when Harlin, Donnie, Erik, along with the three bitches had all decided that they would be the ones to teach my grandmother a lesson and hopefully end up driving her out of Mount Harrison forever in doing so. Katelyn told me that they had wanted her to help them in their plan, but she had refused saying that what they were planning on doing just wasn’t right.

Kat finally goes into detail about the trauma she’s endured from her dad leaving, and the fact that her image of him was ruined at such a young age when she found out he cheated on her mom. They share a moment, and Julia kisses Kat again, but this time she’s rejected. The two of them get into an argument about what the basis of their friendship is. Kat reveals that she could tell all along that Julia liked her romantically, but dismissed it because she needed a friend to confide in. Julia gets angry over the fact that Kat was knowingly toying with her emotions. The fight comes to a head when Julia uses something Kat had previously told her about her parents in confidence to fight back against her. Kat storms off, leaving Julia stranded in the

Kate is further humiliated when Baptista announces that he desires to hire schoolmasters "to instruct her [Bianca's] youth." He makes no mention of Katherine's studies, resulting in her humiliation through public neglect. Any child in her shoes would have rebelled profusely. She is further deliberately left out when her father directs her to remain behind because he wishes to "commune with Bianca." Kate then bridles at this and makes her exit, hurt by this display of neglect.

Kate Percy is not a passive, soft spoken woman. She is bold and matches Hotspur’s energy, which is an interesting match for him. Instead of marrying a woman who will simply submit to his demands, he chose Kate, who does not back down to him or hold back her feelings. She begins by talking about how he has not been eating, has not been in a good mood and has not been sleeping. She goes on to say how he overall has just not been

For example, Kate feels that at this stage in her life she has become contempt with her illness, but still battles with the idea that her illness is destroying her family. She felt bad since her parents focused more on her illness they missed Jesse dyslexia. Kate also mentions that she wanted her father to experience the love of his first love (mother) since her illness everyone’s focus is on her and not each other or themselves. Socially Kate does not want to go out and play or interact with others due to her hair loss she felt embarrassed, however a young boy named Taylor provided her with support before his death he gave Kate a sense of normalizing their predicament.

Other characters that are important are Daniel, Bo and Aunt Annie. Daniel is Kate’s boyfriend, whom she is very interested in. She sees open-mindedness and a kindness soul in him, qualities, which she is lacking in herself. He reminds Kate of Matt even though she disagrees with that fact, for example she says, “But Daniel is a curious man. He shares with Matt.” (36) It is very surprising he is interested in her bitter personality and also after many times asking her to tell him about herself, but denying. He knows completely nothing of her. But, I believe he is mostly attracted to her because of her trustworthiness. Bo, the youngest sibling was only at the age of one and a half years when their parents died. But, from what I can collect

Hearing this, Kate is overjoyed and becomes her disrespectful self. Immediately Petruchio tells her that they will not be going. After hearing this, Kate gets an epiphany; If she is submissive and respectful she could have an extremely good

Still his words ring true. She’ll need to develop her technical ability if she wants to play professionally. Desperate because of an upcoming performance, Kate returns to Griffin and requests his help.

In this scene, Kate is talking to Anna who is completely naked in the shower. Kate tells Anna that if she doesn't want to be her sister anymore then she is okay with that, but she cannot stand to lose her as a friend. Anna hid her face in the shower spray so Kate cannot tell she is crying too because she cannot stand the thought of losing her either. Anna truly does love Kate, but she is just tired of not having a say in being Kate's donor anymore. The problem is not Kate, it’s her parents.

The change in Kate’s character is minimal, even when everything around her is changing. As Kate is laid off from her job as a teacher, the authority structures in the house begin to break down. The girls start challenging the internal hierarchy of the house. For example, Rose becomes more confident and starts standing up for herself. She goes to meet Danny Bradley without telling anyone, leaving the sisters very

Lastly, Kate becomes less angry from the start of the play to the end. She is angry about how her sister Bianca is the only one who gets attention by suitors and how her father favors Bianca more. For example, Kate was angry at Bianca for not knowing what suitor she wanted to marry, so she tied Bianca’s hands up and threaten her. Baptista walked in on her being mean to Bianca and stuck up for Bianca and not for Kate. He didn't even try to listen to Kate which made her even angrier (Shakespeare, 2.1). In this instance, Kate shows how she gets angry over Bianca having more suitors and Baptista stick up for only Bianca but not for her. She gets mad because she is not getting heard or listened to. She is very angry in the beginning because of this treatment and misunderstanding.

Her actions managed to be ambiguous (1) yet crass (3) simultaneously. My indignation (10) at her behavior only induced (11) a terse (23) explanation of why she refused to think before he spoke. She didn’t want to be filtered and people could take her words however they wished. This didn’t sate (21) my annoyance however.

An obvious change in Katherine is the way she argues and solves her problems with other people. Near the beginning of the play, Kate often uses physical force and verbal abuse to try and get what she wants, or get out of a situation she does not like. Her words and actions were quite violent and can be seen when she attacks Bianca over which of her suitors she loves the best, a reaction to many of the men having a deep disgust for Katherine’s rotten attitude but a love for Bianca. This is seen when Bianca says “‘Good sister, wrong me not, nor wrong yourself, to make a bondslave of me… unbind my hands…’” (2.1.1-4). It is apparent here that Katherine cannot voice her opinions and argue with her sister civilly. Kate has to resort to violence to work through her problems, which leads to a larger difference between Kate and her well-tempered sister.

Kate cleared her throat. “My father sent me to see you. He told me you had an excellent idea I needed to hear about.”