The Old Couple Analysis

The atmospheric conditions may represent the hardships that the couple had to go through in their relationship, and may also be used contrast the unpredictability of the outside world compared to the steady relationship that the couple have. ‘A Youth Mowing’ is also a poem about relationships, this time it is between a younger couple. The river ‘Isar’ is a symbol of freedom, it represents the way that the men’s lives are. However, this sense of liberty is broken by the ‘swish of the scythe-strokes’ as the girl takes ‘four sharp breaths.’ Sibilance is used to show that there is a sinister undertone to the freedom that the boy has which will be broken by the news that his girlfriend is bringing. She feels guilty for ‘what’s in store,’ as now the boy will have to be committed to spending the rest of his life with her, and paying the price for the fun that they had.

The Wife Of His Youth is a short story written by Charles Chesnutt in the late 1800’s. The story starts with the introduction to the Blue Veins society; A society where a small group of colored people formed up in the Northern City after the Civil War. Blue Veins society distinguished a person’s social standing but basically geared only toward those of light complexion where you could visibly see one’s Blue Veins. Mr. Ryder a handsome bachelor, and dean of the Blue Veins society is soon to end his bachelor status and marry Miss. Molly Dixon. That was soon to change when he is approached by a face of his past, the wife of his youth. Mr. Ryder a past apprentice during the Civil War was previously married to Liza Jane. Liza Jane spent 25 years in search of her love Sam Taylor or known now as Mr. Ryder. Late into the story Mr. Ryder throws a ball for the Blue Veins society in honor of Molly Dixon his “soon to be” wife. During the Blue Veins ball, Mr. Ryder reaches out to the crowd with hypothetical question about the wife of his youth; in regards to advice on what he should do. Mr.Ryder brings Liza Jane to the ball and introduces everyone in the crowd as the wife of his youth. This short story really makes one question the certain aspects of race.

These ideas are an interpretation of what society views as concepts of marriage. One of the things I found to be interesting in the above list was the absence of the word love.

She started to see beautiful things from her window that represented her new life. She wasn’t used to seen those things like this when her husband was around, because she was submissive to her husband and trapped. Another part of the story that i found ironic was when Kate Chopin started to describe the scene outside the window. She described the outside as “The delicious breathe of rain, the notes of a distant song, countless sparrows were twittering and patches of blue sky”. At this point is when i realized that she wasn’t sad for her husband and this was a sign of a new life.

The Other Wife is a short story written by Sidonie Gabrielle Colette. Colette is credited for challenging rigid attitudes and assumptions about gender roles. “The Other Wife” is about a French aristocrat and his second wife has a brief encounter with his ex-wife in a restaurant. The story’s point of view is 3rd person omniscient. An analysis of how France 20th century gender roles influence the multiple personalities of a husband, wife, and ex-wife.

  Much Ado About Nothing raises many important issues concerning the institution of marriage. Perhaps Shakespeare's purpose in writing this play was to question the existing approach to relationships and marriage. Shakespeare reveals the faults of the process through the characters of Hero and Claudio and also Hero's father, Leonato. Shakespeare also may be suggesting an alternative approach to marriage and relationships through the characters of Beatrice and Benedick.

A contract, at best, could describe a heartless union between a man and his wife. In Wharton’s novel Ethan Frome, the protagonist’s apathetic marriage could be described as such. Ordinarily, marriage is a happy union, but nevertheless, Ethan and Zenobia had a sad story. That, along with the social structure of the time, brought about the painful consequences of adultery and the alienation of Zenobia, Ethan, and Mattie Silver, which cultivated into a life of bitter loneliness. The egocentric nature of Zenobia forced Ethan to care for her as a dependent rather than his spouse. Working on the farm allowed Ethan to pay his expenses. Nevertheless, he could not hardly afford anything else. He even referred to Zenobia as “…a poor man’s wife (Wharton

Love is defined as an intense feeling of deep affection. Although it is not as easily defined as some may make it. Every situation and the lessons we learn from those times, help to form what we believe love to be. For some it may be a physical attachment that others degrade to lust. For some it may be their reason for continuing on in life; but overall for most, love is what drives our lives. From childhood to adulthood we seek to find relationships that will fulfill our hearts and make our short time on Earth a little more enjoyable. However as well as any other activity we partake in, ways in which we perceive love and marriage have changed over time. Although there is slight variations, when most imagine the life of a married couple pure happiness is what is expected. As wonderful as that expectation may be, not every marriage fits into this ideal. The criteria of marriage used to be based off of what your partner can offer you. However as times have changed and gender roles have begun to disappear, marriage has now

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As the story progresses, Perrault presents an example of the dire consequences that occur when a traditional woman shifts into a non-conformative one. Bluebeard's wife is shown as a imprudent, betraying her husbands trust by deliberately disobeying his orders. " She was so much pressed by her curiosity that, without considering that it was very uncivil for her to leave her company, she went down a little back staircase, and with such excessive haste that she nearly fell and broke her neck" (56). Because of her disobedience, she ends up discovering her husbands terrible secret- a room hiding the corpses of all his previous wives. Her curiosity is demonized as the cause of her misfortune. Bluebeard's marriage is an example of the traditional

The short story “Killings” is written by Andre Dubs which later recreated into a motion picture film called In the Bedroom by director Todd Field in 2001. Both the short story “Killings” and the film In the Bedroom highlights the themes of love and revenge. It shows how far a person would go for the people they love. The short story was named “Killings” because it not only focuses on two deaths but the multiple types of death and different aspects of it.

During that time, there were difficulties for each and every family. Some family is poor so each and everyone starved. Some are complicated to handle so one get sale in order to get a living. In the Bundren family, there was obstacle after obstacle. Each and one of them is forced to give up their own dreams and needs. When the Bundren family were traveling, there were difficulties on the way. The road was meeting Anse expectations, the weather wasn’t good, because of that, he blames it for his wife ill health. The way the head of the family, a father, a husband is acting is lowering the hope for the family. Because of the way he is acting, each and one of the family member has to put up with it. This can be the reason that they are not caring for the family but instead caring about their self-interest. “It takes two people to make you, and one people to die. That’s how the world is going to end ( 47 Faulkner). The shows that in our world, things like that can happen. For instance, a family is happily having a meal, everybody is laughing, cheering, yelling cause of excitement, but one of them is unhappy, grumpy, sad, confused. That one member is feels left out. In order to let her anger out, she starts yelling at her sisters and brothers out of no reason. She yells at them for nothing putting the plate right. Yells at them for not walking straight. Suddenly, each and one of the family members feels sad, unhappy, confused just like her. Because of all the fuss, each and one the, family members felt uneasy. This example relates to As I Lay Dying because both families have to give up their own

George and Lennie´s partnership was kind of alike because there were many people like them working on ranches and that are loneliest guys in the world, and that have no family said George in paragraph 3. They would mostly go everywhere together. Lennie was extremely delighted with George. Lennie and George had a good relationship because they would always think positive, ¨George had said that they have a good future and that they´re not like other guys that got to jail.¨ Lennie has a great partisanship with George because after George had said that they were not going to jail, Lennie had said that he has George to look after him. And George has Lennie to look after him. They have a good nature relationship because they work out things together

The use of character, style, and point of view that Atwood uses to write this story gives you a real feeling of pity for these characters, only having horrible lows or average highs in their relationships. It appears that there is no great place to be in her story. Reading this story for the first time, the reader could assume Atwood has an obsession with bad relationships, boring average marriages, and death. The key to understanding what the author is trying to convey is realizing how the stories all link together and how they all lack the essence of excitement and desire. The author brings the idea that without focusing on the “how and why” of life and only focusing on the “what, what, what” will leave you with an average

The woman and man caught in their passionate embrace are set above the wartime images. It seems that symbolically the man and woman are above the war, that their love transcends the tragedy and the tumult that surrounds them, if only because they are fighting their own romantic war. Below them is a burning city. The couple on the carriage fleeing the city looks to be the same couple that is staring into each other’s eyes. This further suggests that they were apart of the events in the war, but were still caught in the throws of their own love life. The girl that rushes from her