Tom Walker's Wife Monologue

Burke illustrates Tom’s inner conflict with first-person narration. The guilt he feels over the inactivity he had on the night of the incident, his frustration with Kylie and the added guilt he exhibits because he feels sorry for himself all adds up to his conflicted thoughts. Tom doesn’t know or feel like himself anymore. But Burke brings this to the attention of the reader in a good light when Tom thinks, “But now I knew what I missed most. I missed me, Tom Brennan, and that’s why now I could smile, ‘cause I could see he was coming back.” Thus, when J.C. Burke aptly finishes the book with the line “that was the morning Tom Brennan came back, forever,” the true development in Tom’s character and conflict is shown through the employment of first-person narration. Therefore, J.C. Burke thoroughly addressed the conflict in Tom’s mind as it was overcome in the

| Tom wants his old life back prior to the accident and he sees the accident as the end of his life as he knew it. He loses his sense of identity and sense of family in particular.Feels guilty and ashamed about the irrevocable consequences his brother’s irresponsibility had for other people and their familiesRetreats into a depressed state which feels empty and black.

He too abandons his morals; illegally earning the money that he believes will win back the heart of his lost love Daisy. When they had a love affair long ago, she wouldn't marry him because of his financial standing. The details of his business are sketchy, when asked he usually ignores the question. Tom though, after some investigating finds the true nature of his profession.

In this story we can see many interesting facts about the main character Tom Walker such as his relations with other characters and his own beliefs. In the story we can see how Tom doesn’t accept the deal with the Devil at first, but when his wife dies in hands of the Devil, Tom Walker now accepts to do the deal; however he doesn’t accept because he feels like he has lost everything but because now his wife can’t take away any part of the treasure and now he will do the things he wants for his own good and not to please

Tom would beat her awful a considerable measure. At the point when Tom educated her regarding his meeting with

When Tom claims that Daisy actually does love him, he suppresses her opinion by putting words in her mouth to aid his argument. Tom perceives the need that he must speak for his wife as if she can not speak for herself. Also, Tom claims that Daisy obtains “foolish ideas,” and that she “doesn’t know what she’s doing.” He implies that she is crazy and it is understandable that she fools around because of that. This reflects the misogynistic views men had towards women in this time period as they silenced women with their opinions to prove their

Tom’s infidelity in his marriage clearly expresses his views about his wife, Daisy. In seeking an affair, he conveys that Daisy is deficient and not worthy of devotion. Daisy knows of his affairs, but because of the time period and their social class, she is helpless to do anything. As a woman in the 20th century, it would destroy Daisy to divorce Tom, even though the entirety of New York knows about Tom’s affair.

“I saw them in Santa Barbara when they came back, and I thought I’d never seen a girl so mad about her husband. If he left the room for a minute she’d look around uneasily, and say: “Where’s Tom gone?” and wear the most abstracted expression until she saw him coming in the door. She used to sit on the sand with his head in her lap by the hour, rubbing her fingers over his eyes and looking at him with unfathomable delight. It was touching to see them together — it made you laugh in a hushed, fascinated way. That was in August. A week after I left Santa Barbara Tom ran into a wagon on the Ventura road one night, and ripped a front wheel off his car. The girl who was with him got into the papers, too, because her arm was broken

The author continuously characterizes Tom Walker in a way that makes the readers pity and resent him to not want to follow the example of his life. For example, after Tom's wife takes all their valuables and tries to strike a bargain with the devil when Tom wouldn’t do it himself, he goes looking for her in the woods. Irving shows just how little Tom cared about his wife when he describes his reaction to her disappearance and death. He is more concerned about the safety of his silverware, which she had taken with her. "He leaped with joy; for he recognized his wife's apron, and supposed it to contain the household valuables.” That shows that he is really greedy and ruthless. However, Tom shows no remorse for his dead wife and has evidence that shows that his wife had beaten up even the

No more Tom Ripley than Dickie Greenleaf, he returned to New York City behind a confused veil of anonymity. Occasionally, a sharp memory would point its way to the forefront of Ripley’s mind for just a moment: a moment that lasted just long enough for the piercing thought to puncture his brain. Guilt had Ripley in a stranglehold, periodically loosening its grip to allow fear to take over. Caught in a downward spiral that disguised itself as an endless loop, Ripley found himself regretting decisions he hadn’t yet made. Enough trauma came about on the trip back to New York: twenty-four-hour cycles comprising mental re-enactments of Peter’s death, staring at blank walls, and wondering how many extra murders it would take to cover the previous ones up. Ripley could never progress while brooding in a sombre cabin without so much as even a smirched window for a glimmer of light, let alone solve his problems entirely.

Sorry, but I must confess to you, my dear Lola. I put my hand over his mouth and pulled his head back. I took his crutches and hooked it under his chin which causes it to break his neck (44). I had to hide my face with your father’s hat. Walking in shadows so no one can actually see my face. I planned this whole idea on how we should get rid of your father and it worked. I thought once he was out of the picture Phyllis and I would be happy. However, on the way to get my car, we were both bickering at one another. We didn’t even kiss goodbye. “That’s all it takes, one drop of fear, to curdle love into hate (54).”

I disagrred Tom’s action when he made his wife, Clare to go to the theater alone. For my experice, going to theater alone is not fun at all. In addition, Tom’s work was not even important to finish.

Tom drained Daisy of all her independence the instant they tied the knot and agreed to conform to a typical marriage. He takes advantage of this situation and not only abuses his control over Daisy, but manipulates her to completely depend on him. Daisy has always been used to someone telling her what to do, and her relationship with Tom is no different. She is not a whole person without him to the point where even, “If he left the room for a minute she’d look around uneasily and say: ‘‘Where’s Tom gone?’ and wear the most abstract expression until she

In witnessing this scene, Tom quickly realizes that his disappearance really hurt Aunt Polly. Tom later then becomes emotional at the thought that his aunt really does love him, though she is always hard on him. As a result, he comes to value his dear Aunt Polly, a woman who has served as a mother to him for all his life. Before he was about to leave, Tom “bent over and kissed the faded lips” of Aunt Polly (Twain 127). This highly emotional response that was brought out in Tom clearly shows that he quickly learned to value Aunt Polly. If he did not feel loved, Tom would have simply left the house, dejected as ever. Though he knew this action was unknown to her, Tom still does so because he has learned to truly value Aunt Polly Upon learning that his actions have the power to hurt his aunt, he comes to value his mother-like

The first reason Tom should have ran away to be a pirate is because he wasn't alone. Tom had Huck and Joe with him and they could run back home whenever they wanted so