Suicide In Oates's Essay

For a young woman, this is a difficult revelation to assimilate, and Ophelia does not succeed in overcoming these heartaches. This blow to her self esteem proves fatal.

I thought I would be able to bottle up all of these emotions but it seems I cannot bear it any longer; I must let it all out. I must tell you, Hamlet, that living in this mad world is driving me to the brink of insanity. I am just so fed up with going about every single day persuading myself that I had ought to ignore it all and simply, sweetly smile. But why should I? Why should I sit around and let the likes of men like you order me around any longer? Yes Lord this, yes Lord that! Who do all of you men think you are? Being ordered around by my father, brother and you, my former lover, completely frustrates me every time. Am I your maid? Your slave? Your toy? You all speak to me with such

When something life altering happens, what’s the right way to cope and move on in life? The way someone reacts to a negative situation is telling of the kind of person they are. Of course, everyone grieves in their own personal and unique way. But often, facing reality and talking about the event is helpful when dealing with grief and moving on through the stages of grief to get to from denial all the way to acceptance. In Joyce Carol Oates’ narrative, “… & Answers” the narrator is forced to relive a painful memory from her past, and she does so in a unique way actually reliving more than she initially intended to. The reader is intrigued about what has happened to the narrator, but the end of the story doesn’t have as satisfying of an ending as the reader might have hoped. Denial, repression, and excuses all make an appearance in the story along with some enticing ambiguity.

In “Whoever We Are, Loss Finds us and Defines Us”, by Anna Quindlen, she brings forth the discussion grief's grip on the lives of the living. Wounds of death can heal with the passing of time, but in this instance, the hurt lives on. Published in New York, New York on June 5, 1994, this is one of many Quindlen published in the New York Times, centered on death's aftermath. This article, written in response to the death of Quindlen’s sister-in-law, and is focused on an audience who has, currently is, or will experience death. Quindlen-a columnist for the New York Times and Newsweek, Pulitzer Prize winner and author-has written six bestselling novels (Every Last One, Rise and Shine, Object Lessons, One True Thing, and Black and Blue) and has

People lose things everyday- be it an object or a loved one. Reactions in experiencing a loss vary from person to person. However, the bond between a parent and child remains shattered when a father suddenly loses his daughter. In James Russell Lowell’s poem “After the Burial”, a friend is comforting a father who lost his daughter. With difficulty, the father attempts to move on from his daughter’s death but is unable to, regardless of the comfort he receives.

The journey of coping with a death often takes a year and is a struggle throughout. In Holden’s case, it takes triple the amount of time to recover. Because of Salinger’s use of death as a motif, the definition of the seven stages of grief is emphasized as an extensive process and affects an individual in close to every way possible. The passing of a loved one is

Many people define their lives by the relationships within their family. They are someone’s daughter, someone’s wife, or someone’s mother or father. The loss of a family member, especially due to death, creates a radical readjustment to people’s day to day lives and how they see and feel about themselves. Sometimes the process of grief can last over several years and how it is mentally processed and dealt with is different for everyone. “Mud” by Geoffrey Forsyth, shows an insightful view of a grieving man who had already lost his father and grandmother and is now just coming to terms with the loss of his wife two years prior. The entire story is written in first person point of view which allows for the reader to fully engage themselves in the grief and strife of the narrator’s life. Geoffrey’s story “Mud” begins in the home of the narrator where he encounters these dead family members and has to decide if he is ready to move on from his grief and say goodbye or stay behind and be consumed by it.

The author’s melancholic, yet, optimistic tone arouses mix feelings from his readers. Bragg clouts his readers’ perception of his father with harrowing, however, coveted recollections of the past. In the author’s comparative recount of the Father’s demeanor, he paints an unsettling, yet a hopeful life of his father:

People deal with grief in different ways. As a small child, the way the narrator handles uncertainty and pain is distressing, yet also expected. She finds distractions in the furniture and decorations. The child notices a

“I don’t feel so well” Jan’s father had suddenly said one morning at breakfast. Her father, a World War II veteran, stood up and went to go lie down. The rest of the family continued with their day. Michael went to see how his father was. When he tried to wake him his father didn’t respond or make a sound. The 11 year old boy was the one who first knew that his father was gone. The memory of her father’s loss is vivid in Jan’s mind. It was a substantial shock after he had survived the horrors of World War II and then just passed away quietly at home one morning. Jan now understands how

Loss is hard. Whether a family member or a friend, death finds a way to reach us all. No matter how we decide to cope with it, weak or strong, death can consume us, and if we’re not careful, it is able to change us to the point where you not only lose someone you loved or knew but to the point where you begin to lose yourself entirely. In the novel, The Summer of Letting Go, written by Gae Polisner, we follow the main protagonist Francesca Schnell on her journey to overcome the grief and the guilt of the loss of her younger brother.

His last words to her were that he was going to return after six months and with that, “he walked over the brow of the hill”(24). When Lim uses events such as these in the story, it is easy for the readers to relate to what is happening. The readers subconsciously told to imagine themselves in the shoes of the mother. What if the reader had to let their loved one leave and was only told about their death with one single sheet of paper in the mail. Lim’s choice of including such events in the story allows her to connect with her readers on a deeper level.

Often among grief, people tend to look to the bad, the unhappy, the depressing. However, this is not always true, as shown in Margaret Atwood’s poem “Morning in the Burned House”. This poem was written to address a time of grief for Attwood, relating to the death of her father and the realization of her own mortality. She overcame this time of grief, and continued to be a wonderful author.

Ofealiea there's never a day that goes by that I'm questioning myself how did your day go was it bad did any of your patients make you smile or say anything perverted to you cause your such a hottie although I know you said you don't express yourself or open up or how ever you said it the other night so I'm saying I wanna be with you when you succeed and also them down falls but all in all your just success although your not looking for a boyfriend it's ok just take me in consideration and not go back we live days to look forward why go back to something you had go forward

Within this novel, Morrie embraced his mortality with “love, acceptance and open communication” as he gave the reader a glimpse into what he considered to be “The Meaning of Life.” Using Mitch Albom as a vessel to pen his “own culture values,” Morrie was able to define the contradictions between others vision of “popular culture values” and his style of truly living through “life, death and reincarnation.” With the use of materials obtained from the course, this writer was able to summarize various observations about Morrie’s “final lecture” on life, death and family amidst his perceptual understanding that reorganized “aging as growth and not