What Is Maggie's Relationship In Fifth Business

In her poem, The Swimming Lesson, Mary Oliver uses the story of her first time swimming as a metaphor for a life lesson on adapting to new situations. She does this in a detailed, significant manner, using different techniques. These methods pull you into the story, making you ponder about the structure and the deeper meaning of the poem. Firstly, one of these strategies is when Oliver exaggerates parts of the experience. A time when she exaggerates an event that took place, was in the beginning of the paragraph. “Feeling the icy kick, the endless waves. Reaching around my life.” (Line 1). Oliver puts emphasis on the feeling of swimming for the first time, leaving a vivid image in your head of what she experienced

Just like Loung, Kerry’s determination helps her to carry on when the going gets tough. When asked where she finds the motivation for this determination, she said, “ The desire to do well in meets and improves is a big factor. And I don’t like giving up anyway!” Kerry’s determination to swim the best time possible allows her to be resilient during daily practices. Kerry’s resilience, much like Loung’s, comes from her persistence to never give in.

“The Swimmer” is an allegory that is narrated in third person point of view as someone who is observing Neddy’s journey. This

Maggie feels terribly unloved in her marriage with Brick. Because of her unfulfilling marriage with Brick, she seeks affection and attention with someone close to Brick. In addition, when Mae interrupts Maggie and Brick from conversing by talking about her own children and how adorable they are, Maggie says, “why did y’give dawgs names to all your kiddies... sounds like four dogs and a parrot”(29). Maggie has a grudge Mae because she has many children with Gooper. Maggie feels insecure about having children, so she mocks Mae and her offspring to reassure herself and make her self feel better. Margaret has a dreadful relationship with Brick and also with Mae and her kids.

Relationships have shaped humanity since the beginning of time. From Adam and Eve to Romeo and Juliet to Kim Kardashian and Kanye West, relationships influence culture and fuel the imaginations and passions of many. Perhaps the most important aspect of a relationship lies in what it brings long-term: the continuation of our species. For all these reasons, relationships constantly appear and reappear in culture, music, and literature. However Charles Dickens and Betty Smith do not focus the effect of relationships on the bonding of two people together, but rather the full development and maturation of one individual’s identity. In their respective novels, Great Expectations and A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Dickens and Smith explore how relationships impact a person’s identity and the importance of caution in selecting a lifelong partner.

Maggie, the daughter, is timid and little, she is a younger sister. Maggie has scars because of a fire in the house, she is like a child, and shy of her burns. She always shuffles around in the shadows of her popular older sister, Dee. She lives and works with her mother on the farm. Maggie is a respectful and innocent young woman who has not yet come to be her self.

“Maggie” is a story that is pessimistic. It is not only a story of a character who ultimately succumbs to her situation by becoming a prostitute because she feels she has no other way if supporting

It is very clear that Maggie is on Luke Millers side, it is possibly because of what they have been through in the past therefore she feels that she owes Luke something for all the things he has taught her. Even though Maggie is on Luke's side she shows some compassion for Herb Kowalsky when Allen is talking to her about when his daughter died, she is imagining how bad Kowalsky is having it at the moment. As Kowalsky gets more media attention things are looking good for him more people are showing compassion for him. Later Allen tells Maggie if it was wrong to show sympathy for Kowalsky she replies with "no not at all"

In the poem “400-Meter Free Style” written by Maxine Kumin he uses many figurative languages and the form of the poem is very interesting. The format of the sentences symbolizes the laps on a swimming pool. They also symbolize how when you’re swimming at first it is smooth and fast but once you reach the curve of the pool, you slow down to turn around, then it smooth’s out again. Another symbolization that the sentences symbolize is that they are run on and you lose your breath when you’re reading it. Maxine is comparing the run on sentences to how the swimmer has to hold his breath without losing it when he swims. The form of the poem describes many things and really symbolizes the swimmer and what he has to go through to win his

Central Idea: Swimming has a long and rich history that dates back way before our generations and is not always as beneficial as we may think.

“If stories were depopulated, the plots would disappear because characters and plots are interrelated” (76). I chose to do my analysis paper over the short story Lust by Susan Minot, in this analysis I will be going over how the use of characterization in lust contributes to the message about relationships. The first-person narrator starts off by detailing her sex life likes it’s a grocery list or some kinds of list of things to do on the weekend. It just goes to show how meaningless these relationship with her sex companions mean. Although we do not know what the reader looks like we do how she thinks and feels. We can feel the narrator become more detached and emotionless towards the end of the story. Even though she is emotionally removed for the story at the end she also becomes more self-aware of what she is doing, and comes to the realization that she is looking for a relationship in all the wrong places.

Relationships are central to the novel, despite the characters’ financial standings. Morgan and Dakota have been best friends for years. They are each other’s rock that they can lean on during good and difficult times. Sometimes, Dakota helps Morgan with her planning events. Morgan gives her friend a good listening ear as she desires a committed, monogamous relationship, as is stated:

Insert background: Married to twenty-seven year old Brick Pollitt, son of Big Daddy – Maggie is trapped in an unfulfilling relationship, as a lack of communication has certainly ruined their marriage. But a headstrong woman, Maggie is committed to making her marriage work.

The first type of relationship we read about was where the characters felt like they needed to get something out of the relationship. Whether the objective was obtaining wealth, power, etc, the obsession with progression

Maggie is born into an Irish family. Maggie was the girl who mostly took care of her younger brother Tommie and was the odd one out of the Bowery kids. “She grew to be a most rare and wonderful production of a tenement district . . . the philosophers up stairs, down stairs and on the same floor puzzled over it” (Crane 18). As an adult, Maggie dealt with many problems like her job as a seamstress, and her relationship with Pete. As a result of her hardships and no one forgiving her