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Last but not least, Mama and Ruth have the aspiration of living in a new home. The apartment in which they currently reside is small, dark, and handled with care: "the furnishings of this room were actually selected with care and love and hope [. . .]" (988). It is evident that the home is a very important to the Younger family and it is a critical

We arrived outside Tyler’s house. He still lived in the beautiful, Victorian style house that he had bought with Troye shortly before my mysterious conception – I wondered if it had Wi-Fi. Parked outside was my drug bus, ready to go back into business. Too bad it will never see another unshaven addict again (or at least I hoped not). It was sky blue and had been stained by years of rust and neglect. It reminded me of myself. Despite that, it looked as if someone had fixed it up nicely.

Another aspect that contributes to the stories’ setting is the descriptions of the homes of the Snopes and the Griersons. Miss Emily’s home is described as being decorated and clean with many details in the woodwork, and the Snopes’ home is told to be a paintless, two bedroom house like the many others they had lived in. Both homes in the stories have become the symbol for the class of people which they house, but as Miss Emily had shrunk from her aristocratic mindset, so did her house. The location of the action of both stories cannot be more different, but their locations contribute greatly to the mood created in the stories.

The spooky outdoor setting is made to prepare the reader for the appearance of a cozy indoors, whereas the landlady’s scary features on the inside are covered up by her warm but deceitful personality. She tricks unsuspecting young men with her generous and very motherly personality.

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.

However, she does not finish the job, indicating that the little house on Hobart street could not be a permanent home. Fortunately, at the end of the novel, Jeanette finally has a home of her own. Walls state's, “I showed Mom and Lori the house… the first house I’d ever owned. Mom and Lori admired the planked floorboards, the big fireplaces, and the ceiling beams made from locust posts, with gouge marks from the ax that had felled them” (Walls, 287). Walls uses imagery to show the warmth and homey feel of her new home which contrasts to the other homes she had lived in before and represents how, after her whole life of dreaming, she finally has a home of her own. The theme of possessions also played a role in Walls’ memoir. Living in a life of poverty means the Walls’ family do not have what middle class families have such as toys, transport, and food. Therefore, when the Walls’ children get a present, it is cherished. In the desert, Rex comes home with three new bikes for the children as a surprise. Jeanette describes, “We ran out the front

We start out in Lake Windsor, the housing development where Paul and his family live. Their neighborhood is nestled in among a bunch of other ritzy developments with fancy-sounding names, like the Manors of Coventry, and the Villas at Versailles. Lake Windsor even has its own middle and high school, so, for the first part of the book, the Fisher family's lives revolve around that one area of town. Mrs. Fisher heads up their Home Owner Association Architectural Committee, Erik joins his school's football team, and even Paul makes friends in their neighborhood.

South Street Philadelphia’s sidewalk’s safety is not determined by the strangers shuffling in and out of the area, but instead by the local residents and community members who live there. Based on my personal observations, the biggest asset to South Street in regard to safety and overall quality of the area are the locals who reside there. This idea of community investment relating to the safety of a street is presented in Jane Jacob’s novel The Death and Life of Great American Cities and is one of her ideas that is accurately displayed throughout South Street. By examining the various ways people interact in different areas and shops on South Street, I was able to evaluate what aspects of her writing proved to be beneficial to the overall safety of the area.

It is the summer of 1970 in Northern Ohio. The Hadley family is the wealthiest family out of all the families that populates the city of Toledo. They all live in a subdivision called Old Timbers Valley with mother, Lydia, father, George, and Peter and Wendy. The Darling family lives in a sky blue house on top of clouds, the Tremaine family lives in the old, enchanted house, and Old Man Geppetto lives in an Old-Italian village home. Unlike the others, the Hadley’s house is future realistic, full of technology. From lights turning on and off as one walks, stoves making food, sinks washing dishes, a nursey that illuminates the children’s imagination, and so many more laborless enhancements. The children’s nursey is called the Veldt, which can

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

The property located at 1518 Caroline Street, Fredericksburg Va, was built between 1897 and 1898 (Land Tax Books). The structure is a two story, two bay, wood framed, Italianate style in the Victorian era dwelling with a compound plan, hipped standing seam metal roof and a porch. The foundation is made of concrete block. The pillars of the porch are brick along with the two chimneys’, one located in the front right and one on the back left of the home. The walls are finished with clapboard board siding. The four-pane two-story bay window on the left front of the dwelling is board and batten with a hood that projects out and wraps around the bay window. The door is off set to the right covered by the porch, which is supported by square posts. There are six concrete steps up to the porch. The door has a transom above and two pane sidelights on either side. A pendant light is centered in the porch celling. Above the porch is

The buildings were described as having, “small-paned high windows in the peaks of their steep gables were like knowing eyes,” as to make the infrastructure have human features to look at the narrator and scene around it. When the narrator is with Mrs. Todd and her herbal remedies the humanity of the town grows with the mystical qualities of the herbs as the remedies themselves “whispered directions could be heard as customers passed the windows” and the wind blew by, ““adverse winds at sea might also find their proper remedies.” By personifying the town itself and making it not only the setting, but a character, Jewett deepens the meaning of her excerpt to have a mystical tone and maintain the

At (Eleventh & Prospect) the two girls separated to go to their homes, and victim turned east on Prospect, and was seized by (Perkins) and dragged to a garage. Glasys’

The family lives in the Prentice Park section of the city in a three bedroom ranch style home. The home consists of a living room, a dining room, a kitchen and a fenced in backyard. The home did not appear to be in need of any repair. Jaikayliah’s room was not neat and her bed is a mattress on the floor. The family has access to services such as the health department, public transportation and hospitals. Jaikayliah has been living in this home since November of 2016.

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