Summary Of Eric Burnham By Eric Burnham

Austen shows the reader a strong sense of duty through her character Charlotte. Of Charlotte, Austen says “marriage had always been her object; it was the only provision for well-educated young women of small fortune,”(22). Mr. Collins proposes to Charlotte Lucas soon after Elizabeth rejects his offer. Charlotte knows that her friend Elizabeth has declined Mr. Collins’ offer. Charlotte also knows that it is not socially acceptable for Collins to propose to someone else so soon after he is rejected. The quick rebound also shows that Collins does not have any affection for Elizabeth or Charlotte. Charlotte however, accepts his proposal. When asked about her reasoning for doing so, Charlotte tells Elizabeth that acceptance was her only option because she might not receive another offer of marriage. Charlotte believes Elizabeth foolish for rejecting Mr Collins’ proposal of marriage for this reason. Charlotte believes that her duty, and Elizabeth’s duty, as women includes

o “everything about him was old except for his eyes and they were the same color as the sea and were cheerful and undefeated.”

Hancock is not grounded in physicality like Charlotte 's mom, rather she explores the world of emotions. She is not caught up or concerned by superficial tangibility and shows Charlotte the world beyond her mom’s corporeality. Miss. Hancock and Charlotte’s mother serves as a juxtaposition to each other, and illustrate the polarizing influences on Charlotte.

The metaphor is saying that his eyes were like silver. Colors are an important concept in this story to the narrator who is obviously Death. He uses colors as a distraction to his job, he observes the colors of the sky

The reader might question as to why Mrs. Mallard’s feelings towards her husband’s death change so quickly. Was she previously unaware of the “subtle and elusive” (227) thoughts that made her believe that this death might be a blessing in disguise? Mrs. Mallard, before her husband’s death, had a romanticized view of her marriage. While she believed she loved Brently and was happy, after his death she became aware of the freedom she would now experience without a controlling husband. The “powerful will bending hers in that blind persistence” (228) would no longer be present. Mrs. Mallard was aware of her yearnings of independence and joy, but would never voice them while locked into her marriage with Brantley. While at first, it may seem as Mrs. Mallard was unaware of these feelings, the death of her husband was just the catalyst that allowed her deepest feelings to be revealed and her dreams of independence to finally

From this day you must be a stranger to one of your parents. ---Your mother will never see you again if you do not marry Mr. Collins, and I will never see you again if you do’” (97). Mrs. Bennet makes a fuss over trivial things and is partial to exaggeration. These attributes prompt her children and husband to see her as unimportant and harmless. Although her word is ineffective in her household, Mrs. Bennet’s persistence to marry her daughters is ceaseless: “Not yet, however, in spite of her disappointment in her husband, did Mrs. Bennet give up the point. She talked to Elizabeth again and again; coaxed and threatened her by turns” (97). Mrs. Bennet can’t see past her marital ideals for her daughters and can’t understand why they don’t concern themselves as ardently as she does with them. In a fit of anger, Mrs. Bennet claims to disown Elizabeth for refusing Mr. Collin’s proposal by stating, “’But I tell you what, Miss Lizzy, if you take it into your head to go on refusing every offer of marriage in this way, you will never get a husband at all --and I am sure I do not know who is to maintain you when your father is dead’” (98). Elizabeth’s mother thinks that her threats have weight but all the Bennet children know her warnings are hollow. Even when Lydia runs away with Wickham and brings shame to the Bennet family, Mrs. Bennet is only concerned with the fact that Lydia is getting married: “She was now in an irritation as violent from

This stands in stark contrast to what Miss Elizabeth Bennett wants. Mrs Bennett wants her daughters to marry because it’s thea only way for them to solidfy that they will have food on their plates and a roof over their head. Mr. Collins is Mr. Bennetts brother and is set to inherit his estate when he dies. He comes to visit in the middle of the book and his main intentions are to ask on of the daughters to marry him and to observe what he will in time own. Mrs. Bennett says in response to all this “Oh! Single, my dear, to be sure! A single man of large fortune; four or five thousnd a year. What a fine thing for our girls!” (57, Austen) The single man she speaks of his Mr. Collins, the Bennett kids uncle. Austen describes Mr. Collins as a self retious kind of man who thinks he is above the Benntt’s just because he is set to inherrit their estate. This gives him a villeness quality. Austen is commenting on the blindness of Mrs. Bennett to the qualitys of Marraige. She only shes Mr. Collins as money but Elizabeth sees him as a bad person to spend the rest of her life with and theirfore turns down his marraige purposal. Which causes trouble between her and her mother. This is the best example of the contrast in what the two women see as the meaning of Marriage.

Erik Larson writes, “ Her increasing possessiveness did not anger Holmes. Rather he came to see her as an obstacle, just as a sea captain might view an iceberg-something to monitor and avoid.” (65) For Holmes he got tired of his women quickly, once they were his toy the game officially ended and the challenge finished. It became boring. As for Burnham who has been with his wife for many years and still lover her unconditionally. Proof of Burnham’s unconditional love for his wife, Larson writes, “ He kept a photograph of Margaret in his office. Every time he walked by it, he picked it up and stared at it with longing. So far the day, he told her, he had looked at it ten times.” ( 222) Clearly you can tell the dissimilarity between Holmes and Burnham which is what Larson wants us to envision as Chicago having two different

If yellow is the appearance of Gatsby, blue is the miniature of loneliness in his deeply heart. And it was that the fragile and sensitive from the color”blue” caused the contradiction between his external world and noise and cruel external world for Gatsby , which turned a blind eye to the sensitivity of human beings. In a certain degree, Gatsby can not really fit into the upper class. Although his heart is full of loneliness and sadness, but also has a huge imagination, which is Gatsby's inner portrayal,the color”pink”.

(Forster 181). As a sister looking out for what’s best, I understand that this announcement of his proposal may come as a shock and Helen suggests he does not really truly love her. Helen fears that Margaret will start to be like Mrs. Wilcox and become “gruffer, more downright, and inclined to patronize the more foolish virgin” (Forster 160). Here, we see the true feelings of Helen as she becomes disconnected with her sister and feels anger towards her sister’s fiancé, Henry. Helen punishes her sister by disconnecting herself from Margaret’s life and moving far away; out of sight, out of mind. Unsatisfied with the way things were left after telling Helen about the engagement and their continuous arguments on the subject, Margaret asks to meet up at Howard’s End where they start reminiscing about all the strong family bonding experiences they had years ago. By talking and laughing about the good old days, the sisters were able to reunite and rebuild that family connection they had lost. It is evident in this realistic example between to loving sisters’ causes family bonds and connections to forever remain. Although they may be damaged due to disagreements, these close relationships can never be broke. John Colmer mentions in his critique, “Marriage and Personal Relationships in Forster’s Fiction, that, “Personal relationships triumph between the two Schelgel sisters,

“He stood in the doorway in his long bathrobe. He had been in bed and his hair was slightly awry from the pillows and his face was a little pale. I have taken good care of him and he still looks young-not more than forty-but his cheekbones worry me. They are sharp and white.”(Rich 211-212)

The first proposal is from Mr Collins, a man to whom Elizabeth was not even his first choice; Jane, the eldest and most beautiful, was his first fancy, but when informed that she had been privately engaged, he swiftly switches to Elizabeth, who is ‘equally next to Jane in birth and beauty’. His introduction to Elizabeth is not a pleasant one, although he is too ignorant to notice; she finds him ‘a conceited, pompous, narrow-minded, silly man’. Her observation is quite correct, and illustrated to the greatest affect in his proposal speech.

Elizabeth’s father is more sensible than her mother and is described as ‘so odd a mixture of quick arts, sarcastic humour, reserve and caprice’ . Her mother however is not so difficult to work out, she is ‘a woman of mean understanding, little information and uncertain temper’ , and the business of her life is to get her daughters married3. Charlotte’s mother, Lady Lucas, is not much different from Mrs. Bennet. She described as being ‘a very good kind of woman4’, and like Mrs. Bennet she was also set on getting her daughters married . Charlotte’s father is Sir William Lucas, and he is a very pleasant man known for his civil manners .

The view that women should marry for love is incomprehensible to Mr. Collins, who thinks of marriages as something that helps women climb the social ladder and provide them with financial stability. Elizabeth rebels against the ideas of the time by being adamant on marrying for love, and by rejecting pragmatic marriages, which would suffocate an independent woman like Elizabeth. Elizabeth defies the expectations for women again when she turns down Mr. Darcy’s first

She had told him then that she had always painted the world in the colors she saw fit. (She was different.) She saw black moons and skies that shone in the silent reverie of the days lost in remembrance. Tawny strings of grass that alluded