Examples Of Pessimism In All My Sons

Therefore, both Joe and Janie are looked up to by the townspeople. To some extent, this could be considered a form of equality. Unfortunately, this is about where the equality stops. While Joe gains prominence through his own actions and words, Janie gains some prominence by doing what she is told to do. She is not permitted to voice her own opinions or join in the lighthearted gossiping which occurs outside of their store. Janie is expected to be the dutiful wife. If she makes a mistake, then she should have known better and therefore should accept her punishment quietly. Joe holds the obvious upper hand in the relationship until his death whereupon Janie inherits a large amount of money and learns to enjoy the freedom of living as her own person.

Joe brought a moral side to the novel and gave the readers relief from tough characters in the novel. To show a contrast between Joe and the other characters in the novel, Dicken made Joe a simple, content guy, who does not focus on money nor society’s standards during his time. No matter how Pip treats Joe, he is always there and continues to show Pip how much he cares and loves him. After Pip has grown up, Joe still listens to him and he still confides in Joe. As the theme of social class continues to rise in the novel, Joe excluded himself, by being true to himself and doing good, despite having little money. To demonstrate, in the novel, Joe states, “But if you think as Money can make compensation to me for the loss of the little child—what come to the forge—and ever the best of friends.” Here Joe lets Jagger know how much Pip meant to him and how little he cares about money.

Joe Starks is an admirable person. He promises Janie beautiful material things and happiness unlike Logan who only tried to control her and offered her no love. Janie is overwhelmed by this proposal and believes that Joe may be the bee that has come to fertilize her and make her happy, but she is proven wrong. After she runs away from Logan, Joe and Janie travel to a new town that is only occupied by African Americans. There, Joe becomes mayor and is well respected by all. He gains wealth and gives Janie the material things that he promised her, but forces her to work in his local store all day long. He does not allow her to attend parties or have any fun and makes negative comments about her constantly. He says,

Janie’s relationship with her second husband, Joe Starks, is perhaps the most damaging. In the beginning of their marriage, Janie is proud and admiring of the successful, strong man she marries and runs off with. At first, it seems as though Janie has executed a successful breakaway from her unfulfilling life with Logan Killicks, and transitioned to an exciting, happy life with Joe Starks. Unfortunately, Janie and Joe’s marriage retracts from the infatuated love it once was, into a

I see the theme happiness in "Boys Life", because he is happy that it is the last day of school. Text evidence that supports this answer is, "But I did know that summer's days were long and lazy, and when the sun finally gave up its hold on the sky the cicadas sang and the lightning bugs whirled their dance and there was no homework to be done and oh, it was a wonderful time" This means that the boy in boys life loves summer.

To begin, Joe becomes self sufficient and begins to have trust issues after his family leaves him for the second time. Harry and Thula, his dad and stepmom, influence Joe’s emotions to the reasons why they abandoned

He treats her like she is special and talks to her about wanting to be a ‘big voice’ and helping to start a town for only colored people. Janie is excited by his ideas and how he seems to value her. She agrees to go with him and get married. He was an escape from her first unsatisfying marriage until, as years pass, she realizes she didn’t find the love she was hoping for. Joe’s love is possessive. He sees her as a special thing and not a special person. He is often too interested in his own ‘big voice’ to listen to Janie and expects her to follow his commands instead of her wishes. Yet, she stays with him in Eatonville until he dies twenty years later and only stands up to Joe and forces him to listen to her feelings moments before he dies. This scene had the biggest impact on me because I loved seeing Janie finally speak her mind. Although it was late, she finally showed courage and a sense of self

As Janie becomes a “woman” in her relationship with Logan she meets Joe. The beginning of the relationship seems like it is going

His father tells him that he attacker tried to light his mother on fire, but he couldn’t because the matches were wet. They used their clues (the location of the matches) to narrow down the search. After dinner one evening, Randall, Joe’s good friend’s brother, says he saw a man with gray hair who was trying to warn them of something. Later on, the father and son spend hours going through files of Geraldine’s case (Joe’s father is a lawyer on the reservations). One night, conversation sets off memories of the attack for Geraldine. She tells her husband everything she can remember. She says she remembers an infant and a mother were there too, but her eyes were covered so she wasn’t sure who they were. Shortly after this, Joe finds out that the person who attacked his mother was arrested. Things were going back to the way the were until they learn that the man was released from jail for legal reasons about the location of the attack. Joe and his father run into the attacker at the grocery store, and his father has a heart attack. After more distress, Joe becomes angrier and decides to formulate a plan. He wants to take matters into his own hands, so him and his friend Cappy plan to catch the

Circumstance often puts ordinary people into extraordinary situations, and their character suffers as a result. Arguably one of the most complex characters in Arthur Miller’s All My Sons is Kate Keller. Wife of Joe Keller and mother of Chris and Larry Keller, Kate is a very interesting, yet very misunderstood character. While she is easily seen as immoral due to her actions, when presented with a full presentation of her character, there is another side to Kate Keller that cries out for sympathy.

His mother, Milly, dies giving birth to him and his father is murdered in cold blood by Doc Hines, his own grandfather, as the couple is caught attempting to run away together, this event is significant because it arguably shapes the rest of Joe's life, this absence of parental guidance and care could easily be a reasonable cause of some of the strange behaviors we observe in joe as an adult. His situation is exacerbated by the continued presence of his grandfather, whom we recognize to be extremely racist and fanatically religious, we observe some of his cruel and thoughtless behavior when he disrupts a church service for the sole purpose of condemn black people, urging "white folks to turn out and kill them all"(153) or, when instead of going out the fetch a doctor for his daughter about to give birth he refuses to budge and instead he simply stands "outside the hall door where he could see Milly until she died. "(153) ultimately kidnapping her newborn child and abandoning it

Kate would do anything to save her mom and see her happy. The first reason is because she sold all of their past belongings and bought a house, applied for high school, and drove from New York to Eden. The only thing Kate has in mind is her mom’s happiness, “ I spent my eighteenth birthday driving from New York City to Eden, Michigan, so my mother could die in the town where she was born” (Carter 12). She dropped every thing for her mom, and her mom loved it.

Arcadia by Tom Stoppard is not a pessimistic play because there is no overall loss that the characters face at the end. Edwards says that “all is soon lost, irrecoverable, irredeemable” and this notion/idea does not support the play because hope can be seen at the end of the play. Tragedy is loss overtime and uncompensated suffering; and this is not seen in the play. Although there are instances of pessimism and cynicism throughout the play (like how Thomasina dies young), the story is rather optimistic in it’s ending. Hannah is a character that is constantly mentioning the benefits of learning and advancing society through research and science.

Evidence is clear in supporting his character when receiving his background story. He set out to make his fortune, which took him fourteen years, and in my opinion this relates to a hard worker. In passage four, it mentions that Joe had a younger face, which in many cases would qualify him to be attractive. The story also pointed out that he was among the very few that had a soft hear for Luisa’s dog Caesar. Joe did have relations with another woman, but attempted to correct the situation as best he could. He acknowledged the predicament and unfairness that he would put Luisa through; although it was too late in the

Though Joe is clearly uneducated, he displays a certain sense of common sense that sets him apart from the everyday man. For example, he is fully aware of his lack of education and therefore it is this which prompts him to approve of the cylinder heads. He knows, as an uneducated man, that he must all the more desperately protect his way of making a living so his family is safe, as his family’s safety and welfare has to ability to manipulate his level of happiness. And indeed many characters have benefitted from Joes vision. Kate has a nice house and a future by the sea to look forward too and Chris is in the standing to inherit the promising business that will benefit as consumerism was affected by the post war optimism in a largely positive way, which of course will