Summary : ' The Night Of Don Corneo '

Up to this point, the reader might think the young wife was an innocent youth, singing and dancing her way through life, wearing white dresses and driving her older husband crazy. But there is a dark side to her personality too.

This relates to the theme of the struggle for self definition, because at first Esperanza was under the impression she could change a man, but as she’s exposed to these horrible encounters she comes to the conclusion that boys and girls live in different worlds.

The women of the story are not treated with the respect, which reflects their social standings. The first image of the women that the reader gets is a typical housewife. They are imaged as “wearing faded house dresses and

Janie and her grandmother represent a culture of women that were stereotyped into a specific gender role, putting them as the last class in society. They received no compensation or respect for their services. Their work specifically benefited only those they worked for, and supported. Through compromising themselves in this way these women were subjected to even more maltreatment.

The push west was not always as glorified as many 1950s western movies would portray. Rather, there were complicated politics that often led to the disenfranchisement of the native peoples who lived on the lands the Americans were essentially squatting on. There are a number of stylistic elements embedded within Maria Amparo Ruiz de Burton's 1885 work that lead credence to this theme. Using realism and naturalism to show how the social environment of an oppressed people will forever hinder their character development, Amparo Ruiz de Burton exposes the greed and lack of concern in American policy for the native people it was essentially stealing land from.

This passage gives the reader an initial insight on the central conflict in the novel, Tita’s fight for freedom from Mama Elena’s suppression. Mama Elena is portrayed to have characteristics which resemble to that of the stereotypically domineering, abusive male figure. Tita must tread waters very carefully when she is anywhere near Mama Elena, otherwise she would be beaten for any reason. Yet as the novel progresses, Tita undergoes a change due to exposure and desire. With the introduction of Pedro (Tita’s lover who ends up marrying Tita’s sister), Tita experiences new emotions, desire and lust. Previous to meeting Pedro, Tita never felt the desire to defy Mama Elena, yet her new found love - lust - for Pedro gave her a reason to rebel. The introduction of the emotion of desire, a need sparked the flame of change in Tita. This concept of women in oppression finding something to strive for, even at a risk, gives women courage. As the age, old saying goes ‘if they can do it so can I’. By creating a relatable scenario, Esquivel hopes to show women that even if the task seems too great to overcome, they

Despite being looked at in a certain way, Women are being portrayed as “going exactly where their mothers and grandmothers have already ‘been’: into sexual bondage at the hands of a male ‘Friend’” (Christle 1). This is showing how even though women are changing the way society works, some people still want it to be the same. In the story Connie’s mom wanted Connie to be like her and her sister, just the average, not overly pretty looking lady. Some people think that “women have been silenced,” (Spelman and Lugones 574) but Connie had other ideas, she wanted to be different from them. She was constantly looking at herself in the mirror and thinking about what others were thinking about her. When she went out, she would always wear nice clothes that would get her noticed. Looking through a feminist lens one can conclude that Connie’s family sees women now as they always were.

The blue jeans were an embarrassment for her when she was around her white friends because they had a large hole. Sadly, being poor led Elva to be embarrassed many times throughout her young life. Her housing conditions were not much better than her holey jeans. The entire family lived in migrant housing which, unlike the Waldorf Astoria, is not known for its accommodations. “The coldness of the floor and the excitement of our new life made me jump out of my makeshift bed on the floor” (10). In reading that passage one might just see a little girl who is excited to start her new life, but what I saw was a little girl who had just slept on a cold floor all night. Despite how hard Elva might try to normalize the negative situations from her childhood they ultimately affected her life for the positive.

The female “porch-sitters” play a huge underlying role throughout the novel while Janie lives in the town, but Oprah Winfrey transformed one of the most important scenes in the book by characterizing the men in the movie as the people on the porch. “‘Is that Mrs.Starks’? ‘Sure enough looks like Mrs.Starks looks and features’. ‘Except Mrs.Starks wouldn’twearing no coveralls’. ‘That Tea Cake he probably stole her money’. ‘See, that’s what happens when you run off with a young fella like Tea Cake’” (Dir.Darnell). By portraying the “porch-sitters” as men in the movie the dynamics of jealousy in the town changes and both genders create their own assumptions throughout the film. When a significant part of the town changes, part of the sense of community also changes creating a difference in the story

n the novel Salvage the Bones, Jesmyn Ward presents a heartfelt story behind the destruction caused by Hurricane Katrina through the perspective of the character Esch. From a depressed and drunken father to her three brothers, Esch lives in a world of men. While Esch’s father is busy preparing for the hurricane, her two older brothers, Skeetah and Randall, are often occupied fulfilling their own dreams and desires, leaving Esch in charge of their younger brother. Esch’s mother died giving birth to the youngest child, Junior, which forced Esch into the role of a motherly figure. At the mere age fifteen years old, Esch battles the realization that her life is falling apart.

As they tried to get adjusted in New York City it was very hard for them to do since their families wanted them to maintain their cultural roots but yet the girls wanted to be like everyone else was so that they could feel comfortable. Trying to adjust to their new way of life is very difficult especially in a city like New York where if you're not high-class you struggle along in often dangerous community which is something their mother doesn't want them to become exposed to. As they search for their cultural identity this also interferes with their personal identity.

Additionally, the maids are repurposing rags of other’s pasts, from cities and the Paradise of Bachelors. The rags are remains of, likely, persons living far more freely than the maids ever will, but the maids are tasked with overlooking and obliterating the rags’ past

When characters are placed in different situations, they tend to reveal their true identities. In most cases setting is used to identify a characters true characteristics or intentions. The purpose of this is to entertain the plot of the story. As the story moves on, characters are not necessarily changed but more over presented in different characteristics that the reader had not seen them in before. “Helene Wright was an impressive woman, at least in Medallion she was.” (Morrison, 11) Respected by many in Medallion because of her physique, when presented in a new setting, Helene was stripped away by one word, “gal.” A simple change of place, proved that Helene was not different than the other women in Medallion. The highly admired woman was now lowering herself from the “lady” image she had obtained by being coquette to a white conductor.

As the play went on, I realized that the women were not different, but the same woman. After a year of isolation, and losing her son and loved ones, the mistress was literally driven to insanity. During her time she developed these multiple personalities, all of which had easily identifiable traits. For instance the first woman did alot of shouting and running around, while the second woman did more singing and playing around with what was constantly referred to as the window they were looking through. The remaining women that took on the mistress’s identity, possessed traits such as anxiety and using the stage to paint the picture of what was going on inside her

In Gertrude Atherton’s Black Oxen, a man named Clavering falls in love with a woman who is not what she appears to be. When Clavering first sees Madame Zattiany, he views her as an object. He refers to her as “it” rather than “she” when he describes her at the beginning of the book. He states that, “in spite of its smooth white skin and rounded contours above an undamaged throat, it was, subtly, not a young face” (Atherton, page 45). Atherton is using Clavering as a vehicle to argue that men tend to see women as objects. It is easier to defend injustice if one can dehumanize the opposing side. It seems as if he is taking stock of her features, as if she were a cow being sold at a market, Clavering is observing her in the hopes of later devouring her. Clavering sees her and knows she is different because she draws attention to herself, she doesn’t just sit in silence. She simply isn’t behaving as Clavering believes a woman should. There is an uncertainty that comes when Clavering sees Mary disregarding the manners of the time. Then he observes her in great detail. His inspection reveals just how superficial Clavering is. He examines her so thoroughly, as if she was a prized mare at auction: “ her forehead was perhaps too high, but it was full, and thick hair was brushed back from a sharp point. Her eyebrows, thank Heaven, were many shades darker than her hair” (Atherton, pages 44-45). It is through these observations that Atherton emphasizes men’s obsession with the