Horse Dealer's Daughter

Those who knew Mrs. Lottie Mae, Henry Louis Wallace’s’ mother, thought she was a great person, but the secrets kept in the household would soon come out. “Wallace, his older sister (by three years), his mother and his great-grandmother shared a small, battered home that had no plumbing or electricity. There was a lot of tension inside Wallace home. Lottie Mae was a strict disciplinarian who had little patience for her young son. She also did not get along with her mother and the two argued constantly. There was very little money in the home, despite the fact that Lottie worked long hours at her full-time job. As Wallace grew out of whatever clothes he had, he would be given his sister's handy-me-downs to wear (Montaldo, C., January 03, 2016).”

By investigating the gender roles of the Victorian Era in Jane Eyre and looking at the more modern presentation of gender roles in The Eyre Affair, a clear understanding of these author’s intentions to expose the gender issues can be seen. Jane Eyre is a classic novel in which orphan Jane opposes societal expectations by becoming an intelligent,

Hancock is not grounded in physicality like Charlotte 's mom, rather she explores the world of emotions. She is not caught up or concerned by superficial tangibility and shows Charlotte the world beyond her mom’s corporeality. Miss. Hancock and Charlotte’s mother serves as a juxtaposition to each other, and illustrate the polarizing influences on Charlotte.

Although she is not an old woman, she feels that she, like Mr. Halloway, is getting closer to death. When the carnival fills her every thought with false hopes of regaining her lost youth, she is extremely tempted to take this offer, to "swim around with the carousel of summer." This temptation leads her to place her life in the hands of the circus freaks after all, there is no one else that she can trust. She soon consequentially realizes the magnitude of her mistake when she is changed into a helpless, lonely, lost, and scared little girl. This teaches her as well as Jim, Will and Mr.

The family farm despite the absent economic power of a male character leads the Hopewell women to assume all the open roles while simultaneously maintaining their femininity (Smith 36); they must assume a dual task by acting male in public but privately preserving their womanhood. These gender roles, however, cannot be fully explained without looking at the relationship between mother and daughter; despite their common sex, their relationship is seen as a disturbing force where mother and daughter are at often at odds with each other.

While swimming in Jeannette Walls’ sea: Half Broke Horses, I have found many pearls to catch and use. Those pearls were Lily’s life events. Lily is the main character that the novel is based on. She was a woman of her kind back in the twentieth century. Lily had encountered numerous difficulties throughout her life, but she never let those difficulties pull her down. Lily stood up for her right to be and spoke up against everyone tried to shut her voice down. Even though she knew that she might lose the dream career -which she always loved, teaching- but she refused to give in her principles. One day Lily was about to be fired just because she was teaching the kids –especially the girls- how to dream big. Lily said with an unshaken voice that “my job is to give these kids an education, and part of that is letting them know a little bit about what the world is really like” (Walls 166). I praise the strength that Lily held in her soul, and how she refused to concede to the authorities. Even though I was not as outspoken as Lily,

All three of whom are presented as posing a collection of traits and behaviors that cause Jim a great amount of frustration. Which after being analyzed in regards to the issue’s historical context reveals several instances in which the established gender roles were to some extent largely being ignored, or in the case of Jim’s mother and father are largely reversed. A creative decision that presents a family dynamic in almost direct opposition with the ideals of the era, such as those that describe the proper livelihood for a women being one of a supportive wife and loving mother. Or as it came to be known as the notion of the “eternal female”. In regards to Judy’s position on the spectrum of conventional deviance in gender her character is portrayed as exhibiting more behaviors socially specified, all of which draw a notable amount of influence from the concept of “normal femininity”. However, in the same vein as Jim and the other students Judy does conversely demonstrate a degree of rebellious disregard in her behavior. Leading such a phenomenon of recklessness to be attributed to an entire generation by their

Edith Wharton was a Pulitzer Prize winning female author whose writing style was mainly affected by her aristocratic upbringing. Growing up Edith Wharton was friends with former President Theodore Roosevelt. The two were often compared and both were said to have been self-made ‘men’. Edith Wharton’s novels were often critically acclaimed until Ethan Frome was published. The novel was said to be cruel and violent by critics and casual readers. In my opinion, Edith Wharton’s Ethan Frome is a great book that reveals the harsh realities of failed relationships hanging on by a thread combined with the struggle of being poverty stricken. For my original piece, I will write a poem about Edith Wharton’s failed marriage that lasted 28 years, as if I were Edith Wharton after her divorce from Edward Wharton. I chose to do a report on Edith Wharton because she was a female writer that believed women were just as capable as men during a time when men were seen as superior in every aspect to women, and also because she achieved much more than most male writers of her time. I believe Edith Wharton’s aristocratic upbringing had the main effect on her writing style.

She talks about her cousin Polly, who made this agonizing move, yet whose loss of vivacity was seen just by Pipher. Polly "wore beautiful garments and viewed from the sidelines as the young men acted and talked. By and by she was acknowledged and mainstream" (Pipher, 282). This demonstrates that it is, whether deliberately or not, socially worthy for young ladies to kick back and let young men do all the talking. They will do anything to pick up the approbation of young men, and will do anything to abstain from breaking that "support." Pipher further examines, "Nobody… grieved the loss of our town's most dynamic national. I was the special case who felt that a disaster had happened" (Pipher, 282). Since it is so ordinary for young ladies to begin on this easygoing way so early, individuals only underestimate it as an unavoidable piece of life. The little piece of young ladies that makes them not mind what others consider them, the part that wouldn't fret when they're somewhat offbeat, some way or another passes on in pre-adulthood, and just much later, if at any time, does it

How many horses would you like to store in the stable located at 901 Norwood Street? 2 horses.

Many Horses have dramatic stories of when they are raced and competed, they get hurt. Then the Horse can no longer compete and make the owner money. The owner then gets rid of the Horse or just leaves it to die. The cruel Horse owner wants more money and starts the horrible process over. I’ve always known about the mistreatment with animals, Horses in particular, but I’ve never been able to do anything about it. Now I know what to do about the cycle of abuse. That disgusting process with Horses doesn’t have to happen to as many Horses thanks to the funding of Horse Charities of America that sponsors many other charities that rescues, rehabilitates, and re-homes Horses to heal not just the gentle giants,

She discovered that before her mother passed away, she had stopped the sale of some of their top horses; which were going to be sold at half of their worth. She confronted the farm’s long time horse trainer Casey Hayes, who was taking advantage that Mr. Chenery was not in his right mind due to his failing health. Casey Hayes was supposed to help with decisions involving the horses; however, he was going to sell them to another farm that he had an association with. After firing Mr. Hayes, Penny decided to enlist the advice of a longtime family friend and business associate, Bull Hancock; she walked right into a gentlemen’s only country club to speak with him. Mr. Hayes suggested that she seek out Lucien Laurin, a renowned horse trainer who was retired but he was the

     At the same time, the readings of the women's masculinity and androgyny must be similarly reconsidered. While Irving reads Lena as one who "conforms more readily than Ántonia" and assimilates in a manner "too complete" in that "she, like Jim, is lethargic" (100), I would argue that Lena's refusal to marry and her achievement of the independent, successful life she sought belie any ready categorization of reinforced hegemony, undermining standard patriarchal demands; and her success can be contrasted with Jim's loveless marriage and the vague reference to the "disappointments" that have failed to quell his "naturally romantic and ardent disposition" (4). Similarly, as Gilbert and Gubar highlight, the happiness of the "masculine" hired girls stands in stark contrast with the emotional restriction to which town wives are subjected: "Energetic and jolly, Mrs. Harling must stop all the activities of her household so as to devote herself entirely to her husband" (197). While it may be true that "their disturbing androgynous qualities, and their unwillingness to accept traditional female roles" position the hired girls as "outsiders" (Wussow 52) and that these facts can be read as critical of the feminine, it seems more

In D.H Lawrence's "The Horse Dealer's Daughter," Mabel Pervin and her three brothers are left with debts to pay after the death of their father. To pay these debts, the Pervins are forced to sell every horse that they own. Then, they must separately create new lives elsewhere. Although Mabel's brothers have decided where they will be going and what they will be doing, as the story opens, Mabel's fate seems undetermined. Her apparent inability to plan her future is initially a source of tension and conflict. However, the events that unfold make clear that the life that Mabel has led for the past twenty-seven years has molded her into a determined and independent woman. Through these

Bertha Mason, although a minor character in Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre , played a crucial role in the love story between Jane and Rochester and gives a deeper understanding of how mentally impaired people were treated at the time. She is necessary to Jane and Rochester’s imminent marriage and her actions lead the two to reconcile. Her motives and the causes for behavior are unclear, besides her obvious jealousy towards Jane and betrayal she felt from Rochester. Not only that, but Bertha also symbolizes everything Jane is not, mirroring her in a way as a polar opposite.