Remy's Closet Analysis

     During her spree, she is lost in her own world and purchases items for herself instead of her children. Her purchases included a new pair of silk stockings, fitted gloves, new boots and two high priced magazines. Next, she is drawn to a restaurant that she has only dreamily strolled by admiring everything about it, only to go inside for a quick bite, which is typically out of the question for her. After her snack, she attends a play with other “well to do” women who are only there to kill time, eat candy and display their gaudy attire. She now, stands waiting for a cable car hoping that her dream will never come to an end. Almost lost in the moment, she stares at the man sitting opposite her on the cable car hoping that this ride would never end. Quite possibly, she was thinking of how life would be with the stranger who sat across from her. She relived the years that have all but passed her.

She describes her daughter’s attire- “her blue jacket unzipped and her socks rolled down” in which one can infer that she is a carefree younger girl. She says “‘Where do I want her to hurry to?’ ‘Her grave?’ ‘To mine?’” (6).

In Chapter 15 of J. D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye, Holden Caulfield’s digression about Dick Slagle and expensive suitcases shows his consideration towards others and his desire to protect people against the corruption of society. While describing two nuns and their inexpensive suitcases, Holden digresses about a former roommate of his, Dick Slagle, and an odd occurrence that took place between them involving their suitcases. To illustrate, Holden relates that while his own lavish suitcases were on display on the rack in their room, Dick stored his inexpensive suitcases out of sight in the closet. At first Holden assumes Dick hides his suitcases out of embarrassment from the difference in quality between the bags, which Holden claims “depressed holy hell out of me” (Salinger 141). Dick’s seemingly uncomfortableness with leaving his own

The life the Walls kids put up with was not the way the wanted to live. When Lori graduated high school she moved to New York City. Then Jeanette’s

In Queer Loving Siobhan B. Somerville examines the history of the imposed restriction on the seemingly simple, yet complex features of love in regards to race and sexuality. on heterosexual interracial love and homosexual love. Somerville suggest that the many legal constructions and restrictions placed on race and sexuality are undeniably and inevitably intertwined. Thus, she approaches the subject from what she refers to as a sideways view rather than examining the relation parallel to one another. This in turn proves that there is a heteronormative construct that is a reoccurring pattern in society.

At no point in time did the couple attempt to privatize their lifestyle by putting up curtains to cover the window. Seeing as Diane also choose the same position to live with no curtains covering the window as she was younger and now as mother of a three year old child, she can relate to how that lifestyle brought her happiness. The couple’s style of living reminded her of how she used to live to point that they became a symbol of her younger years. After some time, Diane became engrossed with their lives. Their lives grew into a part of her life as her fascination drew her closer; she even picked up on the smaller things in their lives, such as the buying a new pot for plants. In subsequent time, the couple was forgotten over the seven to eight month period of time in which the couple had become absent to their room and only the girl would be seen from time-to-time. Following this, Diane saw a chubby in the room with a skeletal bald man. She came to the conclusion that he was terribly sick and she started to watch the window all the time. Over some time, the man would just be seen lying in bed curled up with his head to the window. He dwindled in size as the days passed and one day, with a notice from her husband, she gained knowledge of activity going on in the couple’s bedroom. She saw that people had gathered around the man in this room to give their goodbyes.

American diaries in the early years of the country really show how people felt and acted during these times. They displayed unfiltered attitudes, concerns and prejudices that they felt at the time. Both Robert Robe and Mary Stuart Bailey showed what life was like for them during their lives and trips moving west. In their journals, they described their journeys, the way the felt about the trip and their daily routines.

The room looks as if a pig lives in it. There are plastic cups in the chair, towels on the bed and dirty clothes in the floor. Becca sits on the bed doing her makeup as if she does not see the surrounding disater. Her mom begs her to clean her room and organize it just a little but she does not listen, she would rather do her makeup. Becca comes home from high school every day and walks right past the mess and takes off her makeup and does it again.

Imagine wandering through a labyrinth of endless isles when your friend approaches saying she has something incredible to show you before pulling you deeper into the store. Reaching her destination, you move in front of her to a unique sight before you; there within the aisles a Hollywood starlet, searching through the pages of a collection of poetry.

In James Baldwin’s Giovanni’s Room, Hella struggles with a way to experience her femininity without defining herself in relation to men. She is David’s fiancée who is away in Spain for most of the novel. After returning to David, Hella experiences a yearning both for home and to become what she feels is a real woman, which she thinks that only David can provide her. Relying on David to give her the feeling of being a woman, Hella writes to David frequently about what she feels their life together would be like. For Hella, the feeling of home is inexplicably tied to being a woman and the vulnerability she feels when she is with David, or with a man.

If you were brought food you didn't like would throw or just accept it. Robin in the book the door in the wall had to make this choice. It is agreed that robin was not hungry, where the disagreement is whether he should throw his food. Even though it is bad to throw food it would be good. I have 3 reasons why he should. The first reason is that if he didn't he would never go on the adventure that happened in the book. The next reason is that ellen never made good food and she was mean. And robin was very angry for many reasons and he needed to get it out.

This memoir, written by Felicia Day, informs the reader of her path to stardom and all the obstacles she encounters throughout. In this memoir, Felicia writes in a very emotional, yet casual and understandable way that makes the reader feel comfortable. Felicia, as she describes herself, is “irrevocably weird” (32) and believes that her life would be much different if she “didn’t know better to like math and science and fantasy and video games”. Even though we may consider ourselves to be different than Felicia, she has the ability to elaborate her unique and quirky experiences in a way that all audiences can relate. The book which

“A mother’s love for her child is like nothing else in this world. It knows no law, no pity, it dates all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path,” (Agatha Christie, The Last Seance) embodies the bond between Tony and his mother, Al, who permits Tony to represent himself in an artistic fashion by allowing him to come to work with her at the Kitty Kat Club, a local club where his mother exotically dances at, so he can use her coworkers as models. In Gary Paulsen’s novella, the Glass Cafe or the Stripper and the State; How My Mother Started A War With the System That Made Us Kind of Rich and a Little Bit Famous, Tony, a 12 year old boy, whose illustrations of his mother’s coworkers, who are strippers, are released in

In contrast to the hotel room scene, Marion’s bedroom is the epitome of respectability and I deliberately highlighted this to contrast her depiction to the audience. The scene presents my idea of innocence through the possessions in her room in which reflect her upbringing and self morals. This is evident through the frames of family photographs on her bedroom walls, as well as a representation of the life she foresees with Sam. Contrastingly, the first point of view shot of the envelope containing the $40,000 reflects Marion’s deception and defiance against the morals she was raised with. Where Marion was dressed in white underclothing in the hotel room scene, I contrasted her personality in the bedroom scene through the black underclothing

As I mentioned, Gary had a neighbor named David. David, being the white kid on the block, also living as a middle class, people noticed him differently. The statement “His closet filled with toys” (26), gives me the understanding that David is in the middle class and possibly is given what he wants because his family can afford it. Knowing a young boy notices what others have, could be the reason why Gary becomes hard-working to make a few cents just so he can experience the same type of joy that David gets by having so many toys. I feel like Gary has the right idea. It great to understand that luxuries like toys come from money and that it does take work and effort to make enough to buy those certain things. On the same note, just because