Sissy

Moll and Sissy are given an education, Moll succeeds, while Sissy does not. Similarly, Catherine Earnshaw goes to live with the Lintons, and becomes their adopted daughter for five weeks. While she lives with the Lintons, Catherine is educated on how to be a proper lady. With the Linton’s help, Catherine’s “manners were much improved”(WH 55). When she returns home, she is a completely different woman, and rather than “a wild savage… [she was] a dignified woman”(WH 55). Even though Moll, Sissy, and Catherine

The two stories in which we discuss today are The Cave and Eatting; both of them are related in character, tone, and setting, (for the most part). The characters of the Stories, Sissy and Russell, are in sharp contrast of each other. While both of them can be perceived as introverts, Russel is much more... Well for the lack of better word, un disciplined and almost childlike in behavior. For example in this scene in the Eatting, “The mule looked as if had come to inspect something... Russell handed

were portrayed upon as weak and ignorant. Francie, Katie, and Sissy were all forceful characters that steered the direction of the book. Throughout our reading of Books One, Two and Three of the novel, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, the author, Betty Smith, is admired for her portrayal of strong female characters, who overcome challenging situations

“’Louisa, never wonder!’” (Dickens 89). The Victorian view of womanhood in Hard Times presents the ideal version of femininity as submissive, compassionate, and always content with her station, particularly in regards to her status beneath her husband. Sissy, the poor but kind orphan in the novel, acts with sensitivity and often naivety, which rewards her in the end. Louisa challenges this role with her initial inability to sympathize. Intelligent but aloof, she is taught to abide strictly to the rule

Queer Representation in All Ages Media Growing up as a Catholic, Puerto Rican gay boy in the 90s and early 2000s, I struggled to discover my queer identity as well as queer representation in the media I consumed. Being gay was something that was never discussed. If it was brought up, it was usually in hushed tones (I remember being introduced to my uncle 's close 'friend ' each holiday) or as something negative (I still remember the sting of being called a faggot in elementary school)

This is an opposition with which Dickens makes extended ironic play later in the story, when Sissy becomes the homemaker, the most settled and the most respectable member of the Gradgrind family. She is,at the beginning of the book, not only of questionable parentage but a virtual orphan. From this situation there develops an ironic opposition between the ties of blood and those of affectiom, for Sissy, deprived of a family by blood, is supported by the extended, unorthodox family of the circus

demonstrate that life is not only made out of facts but also of reality, logic and common sense. This situation is well illustrated in the following quote: ‘Girl number twenty,’ said the gentleman, smiling in the calm strength of knowledge. Sissy blushed, and stood up. ‘So you would carpet your room- or your husband’s room, if you were a grown woman, and had a husband- with representations of flowers, would you,’ said the gentleman. ‘Why would you?’ ‘If you please, sir, I am very fond of flowers

should work at Bounderby's bank and that his daughter Louisa should marry Bounderby. Louisa tries to communicate to her father that the marriage would be a mistake, but Gradgrind refuses to hear of anything that speaks of love or sentiment. Only Sissy, who discontinues her education because she is thought "unteachable," but who stays on in the Gradgrind household, understands Louisa's plight. But Louisa is too proud to accept Sissy's compassion. When the wedding takes place, only Tom Gradgrind

Queer Representation in All Age Media Growing up as a Catholic, Puerto Rican gay boy in the 90s and early 2000s, I struggled to discover my queer identity as well as queer representation in the media I consumed. Being gay was something that was never discussed. If it was brought up, it was usually in hushed tones (I remember being introduced to my uncle 's close 'friend ' each holiday) or as something negative (I still remember the sting of being called a faggot in elementary school).

gay/lesbian cameos in popular films as a form of entertainment. Which brings about the Sissy, Hollywood's first run-of-the-mill gay character. “The Sissy made everyone feel more manly or more womanly by occupying the space in between. He didn't seemed to have a sexuality, so Hollywood allowed him to thrive”. New opportunities were offered for fun with effeminate men, comic characters whose humor was based on male effeminacy. "Sissy characters in movies were always a joke,"