Sarah's Character In 'The Farm' By Joy Williams

Innocence first proclaims itself when Sarah discovers that she is not returning home. Sarah’s behaviour and lack of understanding towards pressing information is a portrayal of how she has been raised to be quite naïve. These preceding traits are revealed when Sarah explains to her brother, “I’ll come back for you later. I promise.” (9). Here, Sarah proves her innocent nature as a result of being raised by her parents in an exceedingly structured way. Guilt emanates into Sarah’s moral conscience when her father confesses that “we are not going back. They won’t let us back.” (23). Furthermore, Sarah’s sheltered upbringing is proved to be true when she smiles at a boy during the roundup and he looks back at her like she’s crazy. She then thinks to herself, “Maybe [I] had got it all wrong. / … Maybe things were not going to

A child is known for having innocence, and bad experiences strip kids of it. In Sarah’s

Those three words reflect her self-image as much as how she sees Bert and Eddie in that moment. Walking with a pronounced limp, Sarah lives with the idea of "crippled" and "twisted" every day, but she also sees herself as a drunk and as, basically, a prostitute, telling Eddie at one point that she owes her livelihood to the last "rich man" she dated. She also sees herself as a writer who

At the beginning of the short drama, “Trifles,” Mrs. Peters, the sheriff’s wife, is painted as timid and submissive wife. She willingly submits herself to the responsibilities she has as a wife. As the play unfolds, Mrs. Peter’s submissiveness begins to diminish. Mrs. Peters and Mrs. Hale work together to uncover the murder of Minnie Wright’s husband. When the women find the evidence, they refuse to share it with the men. Mrs. Peter’s character transforms into a more confident individual over the course of the play.

The story begins with the narrator’s use of dramatic irony which already tells the reader that something is suspicious about her. “John laughs at me, of course, but one expects that in marriage” (508 Gilman). The narrator, which is unknown, states

In “The Miller’s Tale,” John, the carpenter, is married to a lady named Alison. She is not the virtuous

The life of a ranch girl is unknown to many people across America. In Maile Meloy’s Ranch Girl, a female narrator brings the reader into her hard life being raised as a ranch girl. Through many different literary devices including, tone, mood, and characterization, the writer set the reader to feel everything the narrator depicts and the reader ingested with a heavier impact than the reader anticipates. The obligation to the community for the ranch girl is to break all stereotypes, thus showing her community and all ranch girls alike that she can be successful and break free of the ranch girl life.

In “Sarah Cole: A Type of Love Story” by Russell Banks, the main character Ron believing himself to be so much more above the woman he once dated because of his great looks. Ron was a successful lawyer in the state of New Hampshire when he met a woman named Sarah Cole. Except there was a catch—Sarah Cole was the most homely woman Ron had ever seen. Despite that, Ron and Sarah eventually engage in a relationship that would soon take a turn for the worst. Now, 10 years later, Ron tries to relive those past events with Sarah, to figure out what if what he had done to Sarah was wrong. Ron comes to the conclusion that he mistreated Sarah because he was so

Imagine causing the deaths of sixteen innocent people for the love of a man. Arthur Miller describes Abigail Williams in, “The Crucible” as a very manipulative and vindictive woman. She tends to be decisive but makes the wrong decisions. She hurts others around her to get what she wants. Abigail thinks very highly of herself and that she can do no wrong. All of her actions are due to her affair with John Proctor. When the Salem trials broke ground Abigail was confident however as they began to demise she seemed like a coward.

Abigail Williams is a young girl and hands down one of the most important characters in the play The Crucible by Arthur miller. Her main role throughout the script is to corrupt, disrupt and destroy everyone and everything that doesn’t favor her. So with that, she plays a simple but villainous role more sinister than them all; and without her, the play likely wouldn't be viewed as anything more than lackluster. What sticks out most about Abigail is her immortality , lack of ethics and compassion which leads the audience to believe she’s the villain and main evil attraction of the play.

Sarah was born when the Emancipation Proclamation was recently issued, so she did not get a taste of slavery. Although she didn’t go through slavery, her parents Owen Breedlove, and Minerva Breedlove, worked as sharecroppers, which meant they didn't have a good stable job and had a hard time paying for food, and other necessities for six children. Shortly after being born, both her parents died when she was only five. As a result, she would move to Vicksburg, Mississippi with her sister, Louvenia, younger brother, Solomon. By the age of seven, Sarah was toiling in cotton fields at her sister’s house.

In the kitchen, the dishes are dirty, bread is sitting out on the counter, and everything is in disarray. The County Attorney is disturbed, because the kitchen is not clean. The men assume that Mrs. Wright must have not been a very tidy person. In this time era, men expected women to keep the house tidy and clean, cheerful, and decorated according to the County Attorney in Trifles; he states, “It’s not cheerful. I shouldn’t say she had the homemaking instinct” (1031). Men during this era think that women should only be in the house worrying about what the inside of a house should look. In the County Attorney’s mind, the house should have been warm, clean, organized, and presenting a happy feeling. This is a demonstration of how hard a woman’s life is when she is expected to be when a man’s views think of how a woman should be in the household, for example a slave to cooking, cleaning, and sewing. As shown in the beginning of the play, the men leave the women in the kitchen to gather some of Mrs. Wright’s items she requested as if this is where these women belong. The men go upstairs and out to the farmhouse to investigate for clues for a motive to prove that Mrs. Wright is guilty of the murder of her husband. The men never investigate the kitchen for any clues since they feel there is no significance in the kitchen. The kitchen is an area for women to do cooking and cleaning, which makes them feel there is nothing important in this area. Men

Abigail Williams is a manipulative, vengeful 17-year-old girl that will do whatever it takes to get what she wants. Abigail is the antagonist in the play, The Crucible by Arthur Miller. She lost her parents at a young age, and has been living with her uncle for several years. Abigail is directly responsible for the mass hysteria in Salem, which caused innocent people to become accused and executed. She deeply cares about protecting her reputation, even though she had an affair with a married man. Some people may defend Abigail’s character for various reasons. However, her actions throughout the play prove that she is a selfish, villainous character.

When Mary E. Wilkins Freeman authored “The Revolt of Mother,” women were instructed to be obedient to their husbands as they carried out their roles in the domestic sphere by cooking, cleaning, and taking care of the children. Resultantly, in the short story, Freemen must subtly skirt around the issue of Sarah Penn taking a stand over her husband by making Sarah appear to be subservient even when she takes a stand against her husband Adoniram. One example of Sarah acting subservient, but still taking a stand for her beliefs, occurs when she says to her husband “A barn? You ain't goin' to build a barn over there where we was goin' to have a house, father?" (Freeman 2). Despite using punctuation that indicates a question,

Vivian Melva was born in 1910, the fifth child in a family that would grow to include nine children at a time when large families were still the norm. We called her Aunt Zip for as long as I remember. It started long before I was born, and I have no idea when the nickname was given, or by whom. Aunt Zip was many things, and her bundle of energy was no surprise. The first-born in her childhood family, a son, died in infancy from Whooping Cough. Infant death was rather common, although never easy. The fact that he was the only infant death among these nine children in those days was as uncommon as the large brood was common. The only other child that didn't enjoy a long life was Thelma Mae, the third born and first daughter. She succumbed to TB in 1923 at the age of seventeen, in a sanatorium in Spokane. There would soon be a viable treatment. Only three months following Thelma's death, my mother was born, the last child, born in Spokane due to Thelma's