These two women could have changed their situations if they did not let their greed consume them. In Loisel’s case, she could have had a happier marriage if she would have just accepted the unconditional love that he showed her. In the end, those material items would fade away, but her husband’s love would have been there forever. In the mother’s case, she could have used her lack of money to fuel her ambition to have more. Instead of always complaining on how she needed more money, she could have plotted a way to generate more income. These two women could have been role models to women by being strong and independent, but instead are the complete opposite. Instead of relying on her husband to get what she wanted, Loisel could have found
It is about the time they spend together and the connection the grow rather than being rich. It is better to be rich on family then to be rich with money. Jeanette’s mother likes to recieve gifts yet she makes a courageous decision.
When Doris was a young woman her thoughts where all about money, live well and easy. Doris concept of life was not valuable, to her a minimum wage job was not good enough to live, the reason why she was a drug dealer. Now after many years, Doris changes the way she views life, to her now integrity and moral values are important. She shows those values serving to her community and teaching her children that they must avoid the drugs. However, she still thinks that was a victim of age and her hippie-ish culture.
However, with her alcoholic dad who rarely kept a job and her mother who suffered mood swings, they had to find food from her school garbage or eat expired food they had previously when they had the slightest bit of money. In addition, when bills and mortgage piled up, they would pack their bags and look for a new home to live in, if they could even call it a stable home, since they would be on the move so often. Jeanette needed a dad who wouldn’t disappear for days at a time, and a mom that was emotionally stable, but because she didn’t have that, she grew up in an environment where she would get teased or harassed for it. Jeanette suffered so much, that even at one point, she tried convincing her mother to leave her father because of the trouble he had caused the family already. A child should be able to depend on their parents for food and to be there for them when they need it, and when that part of a child’s security is taken away, it leaves them lost and on their own, free and confused about what to do next.
In reading this story we find a woman tired of being a mother, a wife and of her life in general. "The sight of them
In Arlie Russell Hochschild’s, “Love and Gold,” she depicts the economic influences that turn choices of mothers in Third World countries into a precondition. Similarly, in Toni Morrison’s, Sula, a recurring theme of the struggle between independence, the ability to choose, and doing what’s best for others, or coerced decisions, is imminent throughout the entire novel and revolved around the main character, Sula. Often times the factor that weighs down choice is responsibility. Choices are seemingly infinite until you factor in what choices will affect which people and why. Both mothers and caregivers have to put their dependent before themselves, therefore limiting their
And Francie’s mother Katie has had it hard. Katie’s job was to do house work for people. This was a “woman's” job in the time period; she did that as a job and didn’t get paid nearly enough to support her family. This forced her daughter, Francie to have to not go to high school and get a job. This helped the family greatly, but it took away from her life and her mother wouldn't do this for her son Neely because it was more important that he got an education.
The Schlegel girls, Margaret and Helen, have progressed from being like-minded, freely enriching themselves with knowledge and cultures, but Mr. Wilcox has spoiled that side of Margaret. Anticipating Henry’s proposal, the narrator notes Margaret’s impression of him, that he is a “stimulus, and banished morbidity.” In reference to Helen’s obsession with traveling abroad, Margaret remarks, “She has not the least balance;” Immediately after the narrator informs us that Margaret is “deeply pained at her sister’s behavior.” This advance in Margaret’s perspective coincides with her acquiescence to Mr. Wilcox’s housing plans. In chapter 18, the two go from one location to the next, while Margaret rejects them. Subsequently, chapter 32 begins with
Think back to your own childhood. Could you imagine being a child, and not having a care in the world, but then, as quick as the snap of a finger, that all changes because of a thoughtless mistake made by your parents? In The Glass Castle it is revealed that as Jeannette grew up, she endured hardships inflicted upon her by her own parents. However, if Jeannette had not gone through these things, she never would have gained the characteristics that she values present day. Although Jeannette Walls faced hardships and endured suffering during her childhood, these obstacles formed her into a self-reliant woman who proves that just because you do not have as much money as other families, you can still achieve success in your life.
Caroline has been the most successful of the three women in this story. She has received a college degree, and managed to move herself out of a homeless shelter into an actual home. She has a hard time keeping dreams for her career. She never is given the opportunity to be promoted in her jobs which leaves her discouraged. She classifies herself as the working, poor, poverty generated, handicapped worker. She has dealt with many bad marriages. To try and better herself, she enrolls in college again to try and make herself more hirable. Unfortunately debt manages to build up for her since she enrolled in college again. She has to move to find better jobs, but realizes that moving away from a familiar place is hard. It really hurts her self-esteem.
The author implies that since they had economic injustice thiers lives ended up being different. That since they started out having similar lives; no father, same area that they lived in, their lives could have been the same. Both of their mother tried to get their children to have better lives, they both took them out of the public school system, one went to military school and the other went to a private school, to give him a more quality education. Both women worked very hard to try to give their children quality education so they could have a better life but then drugs came into the picture and Wes realized he could have so much more money and with more money comes more things. So since Wes wanted headphones and shoes and all that other
Starting in the 1980s, the character of Lois Lane changed drastically, she becomes more career driven and independent. During this time, there was an emphasis on feminism moreover, women were pushing for individual independence. Authors were aware that women were becoming more independent, thus they illustrated Lois Lane in a similar light. Stories during this time had an “…overwhelming stress on fashion and romance traditionally feminine concerns”, therefore the authors were aware they had a promising female audience(Williams). Male authors wanted to capitalize on “the fact that young girls read Lois Lane gives added meaning to the nature of its representation of femininity and female friendship”(Williams). They saw female viewership increase,
At the time of this story many women didn’t have any source of revenue, so in order for her to gain the money she wanted to get the freedom she finally deserved; she would have to obtain it in two ways: inherited from her husband or receive it from her family. Mrs. Mallard was on her way to becoming the free woman she needed to be but there was this one thing holding her back, money, and the only the question was how she was going to get it in a respectable way. In the later half on the 19th century women looked at as the wife and mother, keeper of the household, guardian of moral purity of all who lived there. The home was to be a haven of comfort and quiet and sheltered from the harsh realities of the working world. Children were to be cherished and nurtured, and to pulling against these traditions was the sense of urgency. Women’s roles were meant to steady, but women could not help but see opportunities for themselves in this growth. Jobs opened up in factories, retail establishments and offices, giving women new options.
They told me that “You’ll just keep disappointing yourself if you keep trying to be someone else”. They’re right. They are both very successful women to me, even though people have doubted them or doubt what they do makes a difference, it does. It makes an impact on me and on other people; all the people Aunt Betty has taught or tutored, all those who felt something through music in Aunt Rosemarie’s piano songs, and everybody else they have come in contact with. People change people's’ lives and it only keeps overlapping, that’s what gives the world such great stories, seem smaller than what you thought before another story, and makes the world go
When the Loisel’s had to earn more money to pay off their debts, Mr. Loisel takes on a second job working outside of them home while Mrs. Loisel works in the home cooking, cleaning, and taking on the care giver role. In the begging of the story it seemed as though Mathilde held most of the power in their marriage, but once conflict arose the power shifted back to Mr. Loisel, as Mathilde continued to do exactly what he said without questioning.
Growing up in poverty increases the potential to understand each other in difficult times. In Lila, Marilynne Robinson accurately grasps the concept of knowing what it is like to live below the poverty level. The lack of empathy is usually seen throughout society, especially in impoverished areas. Theft, abuse, violence, prostitution, are indicators of a poorly driven area. Further, Robinson suggests through empathetic characters, that there are people in the world that actually go out of his or her way to reach out to others at the poverty level. Despite living in unfortunate circumstances, poverty enriches the goodness of others. As demonstrated by Doll and Lila, empathy passes on through each character’s understanding of poverty.