So I Ain T No Good Girl Sharon Fllake Analysis

The short story presents women as aware but misunderstood by men through use of narrative point of view. In society women are usually seen as inferior to men, and therefore often don’t get the acknowledgement they deserve. “The women held their secrets because when they mentioned it to their husbands or brothers they were laughed at….Instead of sympathy, the husbands and brothers now had a secret weapon”. This shows that women did not share their fears as it gave others ideas to torment them further. Women in the short story are also shown to be fully aware of the boy’s behaviour early on in the story. “The men of his home town said, but how

Essay: What does the narrator seem to want from the reader? How does she go about getting what she wants?

A third-person narration story is a separation or indirect involvement of a narrator with the action of a story, and this type of narration can influence the content and the theme of a story. A third-person storyteller can sometimes be all-seeing, also known as omniscient, or they can be limited meaning to adhere firmly to the viewpoint of a specific character or characters. Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery” and Kurt Vonnegut Jr.’s “Harrison Bergeron” are two good examples of third-person point of view stories. These two stories give the authors the liberty to influence their content and theme across to readers using third-person narration without being biased.

The narrator’s diction on the page can be described as vain due to the fact he doesn’t need an introduction when the narrator says it is “not really necessary” (4). The narrator’s diction reveals that he has a methodical, stone cold personality that puts the narrator in a more superior position then the human race. Achieving

Narrations in third person limited have the ability to strip a character of any connection to the reader. Take Victor Joseph in “Crazy Horse Dreams.” A prominent recurring character, Victor often narrates his own stories, giving readers a clear view into his thought process and motivations. However, “Crazy Horse Dreams,” written in third person limited, does not offer this courtesy. In the story, Victor rudely rejects an Indian girl whom he believes to be of higher class than him. Without the immediate relation of first person, Victor’s actions become hard to comprehend and thus sympathize with. His irrational and egotistical sides show through, leaving him in mainly a negative light. On the other hand, third person can also generate greater emotion for character. “Every Little Hurricane” (ELH) takes place at the biggest New Year’s Eve party on the reservation. Although seven-year-old Victor is still the central character, the third person omniscience touches on the pain and poverty of many of the other Indians. It goes into the minds of Adolph and Arnold, the brothers who are always fighting, to find evocative memories of the poverty they suffered, still suffer, to Victor’s mother’s forced sterilization, his father’s racist encounters, and their penniless holidays. By capturing the darker aspects young Victor would not have observed, those brief descriptions expand and give the entire story a haunting sense of helplessness. The reader walks away emotionally exhausted. Meanwhile, “Witnesses, Secret and Not” (WSAN) is also about a young character but, unlike “ELH,” is also narrated by said protagonist. The thirteen-year-old boy is on his way to the police station with his father who is considered a witness to the murder of Jerry Vincent, a disappeared Indian. It is hinted that the father knows the murderer but chooses to say nothing to the

The point of view within this short story is interesting; it shifts from third person to second, and then to first all in a short paragraph. This use puts the reader in some sort of “emotional chokehold” from this point of view strategy. The start with third person gives the reader time to take in the descriptions of everything and keep an image in their head, they can start to feel emotions. But, the abrupt second person point of view smacks the reader in the face, forcing them to feel bad for the wife and hate the husband. Once the reader is forced into this emotion, it changes to first person where the reader is now manipulated to side

The main character in Susanna Kaysen’s, “Girl, Interrupted” and Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s, “The Yellow Wallpaper” are similar in the fact that they both were suppressed by male dominants. Be it therapist or physicians who either aided in their mental deformities or created them. They are similar in the sense that they are both restricted to confinement and must endure life under the watchful eye of overseers. However similar their situations may be, their responses are different.

Although his perspective towards women is blunt, he still has a soft spot when it comes to sticking up for them. This story can teach all the readers how easy it is to get involved in a situation and do what’s right. Although it’s a great example of how things can go wrong when someone just seeks for

“Since the protagonist is suffering a mental breakdown, she is also considered an unreliable narrator because the reader cannot be certain if she is accurately relating the events of the story,” (Wilson 7).

Although a light read, her experience is heart-breaking as she is abused at home, institutionalized, and instead of being treated for her depression, doctor’s attempt to “feminize” her with eye shadow and lipstick. She is the type of advocate that makes noise in a silence because she tells a tale that would otherwise be unknown.

Throughout the short stories, characters endure circumstances that allow them to realize the unfairness of the world, ultimately causing a change in attitude. In “Souvenir,” the protagonist finds herself in a shop purchasing a pack of condoms for her mentally ill boyfriend while being followed by an old man. With the belief that sacrificing something precious of herself such as her virginity, the teenager initially felt that her love could save him from his mental illness. Those in the store around her, however, forced humiliation upon her, especially the elderly man. Finally becoming aware to those around her, she has an epiphany of those surrounding her in addition to the society she lives in. Witnessing the differences in people’s behaviors and attitudes, she grasps the understanding that people are influenced by others

This oppressive nature results in an inferiority complex being developed by the narrator. The narrator is unable to express her opinion

     Throughout the story there are several aspects of the Protagonist’s character that play a major role in the shaping of her future. During her childhood she

In Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper,” the narrator must deal with several different conflicts. She is diagnosed with “temporary nervous depression and a slight hysterical tendency” (Gilman 221). Most of her conflicts, such as, differentiating from creativity and reality, her sense of entrapment by her husband, and not fitting in with the stereotypical role of women in her time, are centered around her mental illness and she has to deal with them.

The theme of oppression is evident in Woman at Point Zero. Firdaus the narrator of the story narrates what she has gone through in her life until she is about to be convicted. Through her narration, the reader is able to know the forms of oppression that Firdaus has gone through.