The Dress

The mother in “The Other Family”, by Himani Bannerji, has numerous static traits. Perhaps one of her most dominant traits being affection. It is clear various times in the text that she is affectionate when she felt “sorry that she was putting such a heavy burden on such young shoulders” (Bannerji 2). Before, she had also said that she did not want “frighten [her daughter]”(Bannerji 2). She even manifests panic just from thinking of potentially losing her daughter. Her second most evident trait is loneliness. The mother displays loneliness when she sometimes is “unsettled” with the news contained in “letters that [arrived] from home”(Bannerji 1). This could most likely be that the letters may be about certain people or things she misses from

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"The Mother," by Gwendolyn Brooks, is a sorrowful, distressing poem about a mother who has experienced numerous abortions. While reading the poem, you can feel the pain, heartache, distress and grief she is feeling. She is both remorseful and regretful; nevertheless, she explains that she had no other alternative. It is a sentimental and heart wrenching poem where she talks about not being able to experience or do things with the children that she aborted -- things that people who have children often take for granted. Perhaps this poem is a reflection of what many women in society are feeling.

Edelman opens her essay by recalling the countless hours early in her marriage in which her husband spent working (50). With his hours increasing, she unwillingly cut back on her own work hours to care for their child. Edelman then spends time sharing her disillusionment with the newfound reality of her

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

At the beginning of this same line, the girl tells what she does not like, "It seemed to me that work in the house was endless, dreary and peculiarly depressing."  She sees her mother's life and the work that she does and simply does not want to be a part of it.  She also outright says, "I hated the hot dark kitchen in summer; the green blinds and the flypapers, the same old oil table and wavy mirror and bumpy linoleum" (113).  The girl is showing her opposition to her assigned gender role.  She does not like working in the house or preparing comparing and contrasting of the father's world versus the mother's world.  The father's world is composed of outdoor work, fox farming, has no emotion, expresses freedom and identified by light.  The father's world is all about the death of animals.  So, there is no time for emotions.  This lack of emotions is also carried into the relationship between the girl and her father.  The girl says, My father did not talk to me unless it was about the job we were doing.  Whatever thoughts and stories my father had were private, and I was shy of him and would never ask him questions" (112).  The girl accepted this and considered it part of the attitude you have to have for this job.  The girl prefers her father's type of emotion rather than her mother's.  The girl describes her mother's emotions:

Additionally, the “pink ribbons of her cap” represent youth and innocence and these ribbons are to represent the Puritan society as a whole. Even though the ribbons appear to be holy, they fall to evil and show the truth of the Puritans. In the middle of his journey, he hears

Mothers are typically seen as kind, loving, and nurturing, at least in a perfect world, that’s how they are. Rather, in the real world many of us wish that is how all mothers are. Various situations can lead to a woman to be too mothering. It is a factor that transcends real life. This conflict causing dynamic is very prevalent in numerous stories, films, and plays. Two plays where it is shown in significance are Machinal and The Glass Menagerie. In both cases, the actions taken by the mother roles in the shows, resulted in some of the character’s roles ending in unfortunate events of some sort.

This story was written in the late 1800’s, which emphasizes women and their place in society. The narrator’s story is quite accurate given the treating of her illness and the overall treatment toward the narrator herself at the time of publication. The deterioration of the narrator’s emotional state began when her career was at a halt when the responsibilities of motherhood overwhelmed her. This is when the narrator begins to fall into a depression that her husband, a therapist that was well respected, treated by a form of rehabilitation called the ‘rest cure’. This cure consisted of rest and destruction of all thoughts or actions toward a career. When this method proved to be unsuccessful, the narrator begins to understand her roles of wife and mother as the source of her depression. This leads the narrator to leave her husband, as well as her own child, in pursuit of leaving behind the chain that brought her career to a halt.

Another symbol in the novel is the color red, represented the danger of Lennie's and trouble for both him and George. When George and Lennie are somewhere Lennie had to always mess it up by doing something that caused George and Lennie to run. The color red is symbolic for danger. When George lets Lennie go to the store and Lennie spots the girl in the red dress, he starts walking towards her. The reader knows that trouble is ahead for Lennie once again. From George’s perspective, “Well he seen this girl in a red dress, dumb bastard like he is, he wants to touch everything” (Steinbeck 41). In Lennie's mind he was just touching the dress to feel how soft it was, but since he wouldn't let go with the girl now panicking, he held on tighter

Another example of clothing being used as a symbol inside of the story is her dress. Mr. Kip makes her go out and buy an expensive white chiffon dress (Barker

The short story, "A Dead Woman 's Secret," is about a mother who just passed away. Her children, who became successful adults because of mother 's love and nurture, kneeled down beside her bed. The thought of letting her go was terrifying, so they decided to read her old letters. The first few stocks of letters brought a lot of positive emotions and brightened up their mood. As they dug further down through the letters, they learned the truth that absolutely destroyed the image of a perfect mother that they had on their mind ever since the childhood. They found love letters from a man they never heard of. Mother 's secret was extremely disappointing to handle, so they left her alone in a darkened room. The story demonstrates how people 's perspective of others ' can change in a single moment because of an insignificant secret that floated after drowning in tears for decades.

In the novel The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood implements symbolism of the color red by having it appear constantly in her novel. Whether it be Offred using it to describe blood, sometimes as the life force that courses through her body, or a marker of death and violence. But one of the most common use of the color was when it was describing the tulips in Serena Joy’s garden. Symbolism is the use of symbols to express or represent ideas or qualities in literature, art, etc.

A key part of the symbolism in the movie is changing colors. For instance, Ilosovic Stayne, the red queen’s partner, has an eye patch that goes back and forth from black and red. This shows how he was deceiving character that faked liking the red queen for his own benefit. Additionally, the mad hatter’s eye color changes with his mood. When he is calm, they are green, but when he gets angry, they turn red. To conclude, Tim Burton uses symbolism to give a deeper lesson and to clear up the state of a character.

This is the moment in the short story where Monica realizes the significance of that dress and the impact it would have in giving it away to another girl rather than her own daughter. The significance of this moment could be interpreted in a number of ways. For one, the reader could consider the trouble and heartache the black dress had put Monica through. She had received the dress from her ex husband’s mother. This ex husband had loved Monica for nothing more than her beautiful looks and would outright embarrass her and poke fun at her, imaginably, limited education. Furthermore, this dress of hers could resemble her unfavorable past in short and giving away to another girl rather than her daughter might have represented her throwing away