Miss Lottie's House Analysis

In life, it is important to always have a positive outlook when it comes to negative situations. ----In the short story, “Marigolds” by Eugenia Collier, the main character, Lizabeth, changes from a childish girl to a mature young adult when she realizes the pain she brought to Mrs. Lottie when her marigolds were destroyed. Her repressed feelings from her father’s breakdown, the hopeless of her financial standing, and her mind’s confliction between immaturity and maturity causes her to commit her last act of childhood, which was ruining Miss Lottie's marigolds. After seeing the pain in Miss Lottie's eyes, Lizabeth finally understood the true meaning behind the marigolds and its importance to Miss Lottie. In the

Like the American population during Great Depression, the characters in the story faced many hardships they had to overcome, including but not limited to those mentioned previously. In brief, the Great Depression was a devastating event in the history of America’s economy and Capitalistic standpoint, that had the potential to abolish the United States’ world power status

The first example of the failure of the American Dream in The Great Gatsby is the fact that Jay Gatsby could not buy Daisy’s true love despite his efforts to show off his wealth. Most people interpret the American Dream as the ability to “...rise by their own efforts,” (Cathbury 70). This ethos is prominent through The Great Gatsby and essential to the novel’s plot. Gatsby puts on a show for all to see, but most especially Daisy. In one scene, he orders a “greenhouse of flowers” for his home the day before Daisy arrives. Gatsby built an extravagant house just across the lake from her house in an effort to catch Daisy’s eye.

The novel, The House on Mango Street, focuses on a young girl who strives to figure out her identity. She continuosly struggles to find her confidence, along with who she is. People tend to struggle with self-acceptance due to society. Society analyzes each person and dissects every one of their flaws, making them want to change themselves to fit expectations. Moving to her new home, Esperanza began to spend all of her time embarrassed. She was ashamed of her new home, and also uncomfortable with her outside appearance. She felt as if her outside didn’t convey the true personality hidden inside her. All Esperanza understood was that she didn’t fit in, and that she is different. Esperanza tries to find the person she truly wants to

John Steinbeck’s novel, The Grapes of Wrath, takes place during the Great Depression, a time when troubled and distressed American men and women lived; a time of poverty and an economic crisis. When change is thought upon, it is to be thought of new life and new experiences. The Great Depression is the kind of change that replaces a part of American living with “ Somepin’s happening. I went up an’ I looked, an’ the houses is all empty, an’ the lan’ is empty, an’ this whole country is empty” ( Steinbeck 94). In his work, Steinbeck presents the hardships that Americans had to go through by being mindful of particular aspects which makes the reader understand the characters’ distress. For example, the landscape of the farm lands. Even though the land has its brutality, it grows to be the scenery for humans to be able to recognize and consider their troubles about work and life in general. With these concerns, there are differences between the people who are accustomed to the landscape and admire it, and those who do not agree with it. In the novel, Steinbeck uses attributes of class conflict and injustice as a way of presenting and socially commenting that the Great Depression brought attention to more problems beyond the idea of poverty.

Americans went from having business to unemployment and suffering from poverty, where some had no choice but, to live on the streets. This demonstrates to the readers how difficult it was for Lily and Jim from not going bankrupt and losing their house. Not only, did they worry about losing their jobs, but they also had to worry about feeding their kids seeing that they were too young to attend school or work. Lily did not obtain enough money to spend on things for them such as toys or affording brand new clothing. This demonstrates to the readers how significant this passage is because it affected the decisions Lily made in managing her family in this case, the only way to make extra money was if Lily sold bootleg liquor. Knowing that she desperately needed the money, she was willing to take the risk to prevent her husband to leave the family to find work. In conclusion, Lily and her family were able to make it through The Great Depression, and Jim was even offered a job in managing a ranch to a group of investors in

Fitzgerald’s examination of Gatsby’s unreachable American Dream is encapsulated through symbolism whereas Steinbeck implements foreshadowing to reassert the ranchmen’s impossible dream. The “single green light” at Daisy’s dock that is “minute and far away” from Gatsby’s house symbolises his dream to repossess Daisy’s love, which is nonetheless a “failure” as it is “already behind” and “beyond” him all along (page 16). As Gatsby “stretched out” toward the “enchanted” green light, he “aspired” to his “dream” that appears “so close” he can “hardly fail to grasp” (page 115), which however “eluded” him, strikingly manifesting the unreachability of the American Dream. While Fitzgerald’s green light embodies the “orgastic future” that “year by year recedes before [Gatsby]” (page 115), Steinbeck emphasises the dispiriting, repetitive routine of itinerant workers during the Great Depression through foreshadowing. The inevitable fate of these dispossessed “tramps” is foretold through the “path beaten hard” by “boys coming down from… ranches” and the “ash pile” made by “many fires” (page 3). On this “path”, George and Lennie plan to “work on [another] ranch” like “the one [they] come from” up north in hopes of “[having] their own place” one day (page 58). Although “hundreds” of ranchmen long for “a little piece of land”, this fatalistic “path” foreshadows that they “work up a stake” then “blow” it before “poundin’ their tail” on another ranch again, showing their predetermined fate, which is parallel to Gatsby’s pursuit of Daisy’s love that is “borne back ceaselessly into the past” (page 115). As Gatsby longs to “repeat the past” (page 90) with Daisy, he “leaned back so far”, causing a “defunct … clock” to “tilt dangerously” before “[catching] it with trembling fingers”, signifying his resolve to recapture Daisy’s love. Though Gatsby continues

The Great Depression was a time of poverty, unemployment, stress, frustration, and of course depression. During that era, many had known and heard about the depression. It wasn’t until a photojournalist, Dorothea Lange, had taken the pictures of a defeated worn out mother, that people had an accurate visual of the Depression. The picture was known as the Migrant Mother. Seeing it with their eyes, many saw a new different perspective of that era.

The Great Depression affected many Americans throughout the 1930s. Many people had no source of income and had no other choice but to travel and find new jobs. In John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men, George Milton and Lennie Small wander through California in search of a new job that would help them make enough money to live their American dream on “the fatta the lan’”(Steinbeck 14). George and Lennie’s hard work and determination is not enough for them to live their dream. Lennie has a mental disability that slows the two friends down from living their dream; they have to run from job to job because of Lennie’s unintentional actions.

The House on Mango Street is a novel written by Sandra Cisneros about a young girl named Esperanza Cordero, and her transition from childhood into adulthood. Although Cisneros used many different symbolic objects to use as a way to represent Esperanza’s thoughts and feelings, she chose to use shoes in particular as something to represent Esperanza’s loss of innocence as she grows up on Mango Street.

From the stock market crashing almost rock bottom to banks filing for bankruptcy, the Great Depression was a time of economic hardship for many people. Steinbeck’s Cannery Row depicts a small community of misfits isolated from most of society. The novel follows the stories of these characters, interrupting itself occasionally with a snippet of another tale from within the community. Cannery Row explores the theme of yin-yang within a community. Henri, a painter, wants to maintain the image of a painter instead of actually painting. Dora, the head of a brothel, balances running a tight ship while taking care of her girls at the same time. Doc, a scientist who lives in his lab, has a mixture of conflicting personalities. Throughout the novel,

Walter Evan’s depiction of life and the people during the depression of the 1930’s consist of poverty, love, and dedication. In the picture of Bud fields and his family, they almost look poor. That can be depicted by looking at the ratty clothes, them having no shoes and the only small room that’s holding six people while one woman looks pregnant. Because of that said it portrays a depressed expression on the faces along with tired and worn out. While that’s been pointed out, it can be drawn that they value the word family and love and are close together. They all look like something towards helping the family. The value and love that goes towards this family is shown in the picture by the pictures and shelf of nick-knacks on the back wall.

The Great Depression was a very negative event in human history. The economy dropped, lifestyles were being ruined, and on top of that, the Dust Bowl wiped out crops for farmers and dried up everything. Throughout the novel, Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck emphasizes how the Great Depression impacted everyone’s lives through their imagining of the perfect lifestyle, the bringing together of companions, and the struggle for survival. Steinbeck uses the characters’ dreams of the perfect lifestyle as a way to show how the Great Depression impacted their lives. Most people, during the Great Depression, fantasized about the perfect lifestyle and how they would live their life with no trouble.

Around the time of Great Depression people chased the American Dream in an attempt to escape from their reality. In the book of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck introduces a story of two men struggling to achieve their dream of owning land. The book touches lots of issues that existed around the time it was written. The story has many that characters faced prejudices such as being colored, mentally ill, old or a woman. In the story there are characters with broken dreams due to their position in society such as Curley’s wife who couldn't be a star or Candy who was unable to live with George and Lennie because Lennie screwed up due to his tendency to”..pet nice things.” George and Lennie struggle to buy an acre of land by salvaging enough

The story centrally focus on what goes on in a marriage between Torvald Helmer, the husband and his wife Nora, in the Victorian Era Torvald. Helmer is a hard working husband, a lawyer, who treats his wife more like a child than a woman. His always calling her silly names like “little squirrel” and “little lark twittering”, but she seems to not mind it at all. Nora is a happy wife, or at least that’s what it seems like until her little secret is revealed. There’s a quote that I believe suit this situation quite well “Things are not always what they seem; the first appearance deceives many; the intelligence of a few perceives what has been carefully hidden.” (Phaedrus). Meaning appearance can be deceiving, because someone appear to be cheerful and normal does not necessarily means that they are. A doll’s house has several different themes, such as; marriage, men and masculinity, lies and deceit, love, and reputation