Psychological View of Granny Weatherall “Get along now. Take your schoolbooks and go. There’s nothing wrong with me” (Porter 764), said by a dying woman in her death bed. The short story of “The Jilting of Granny Weatherall” by Katherine Anne Porter, is about an eighty years old Granny Watherall, who is spending the last day of her life in a hospital bed. Throughout the story Granny Watherall expresses herself through verbal communications and also her inner self-talk.
When the story went back and told how her and her husband met and came to marry it told an awful lot about who Edna was. They were not totally in love and the author stated, “The violent opposition of her father and sister Margaret to Edna marrying a Catholic” (Chopin. 1899) played a part in them getting married. Edna enjoyed the love Leonce showered upon her, but married out of spite in a sense. Edna was described as a “woman not given to confidences.” (Chopin, 1899) This was not an uncommon emotion nor were many of the other feelings she expressed all over the book.
Anne loved life and it was taken away from her. Anne's life before hiding, Anne's life while hiding, Anne's family and friends, how the Frank's got arrested, who survived the war and how Anne's diary became published was a huge part of her life. You can read about her life in several of her books across the world. Here are some of the diaries/books that are based on Anne Frank's life": The last Seven Months of Anne Frank, by Whill Lindwer(1992);Anne Frank : A Biography by Melissa Muller; Anne Frank: The missing Chapter, Roses from the Earth by Carol Anne Lee(1999). The Story of Anne frank by Mirjam Pressler(1999)- Battle over the American stage adaption of Anne Frank's diary; The Stolen Legacy of Anne frank by Ralph Melnick .
Lefroy did not want to be at his aunt’s home in the first place and so he was bitter to the residents of that area from the time he arrived. He had an attitude about him that suggested he was better than those who lived there. Austen disfavored him because at their first encounter he belittled her and her work. Throughout their time spent together, Austen and Lefroy find themselves falling in love. They are both passionate, as shown in his choice of novels he suggests Austen to read, and her for utter love of the literature.
Ethan Frome is a novel written by Edith Wharton, who based the book on experiences in her personal life. In the book, Ethan falls in love with his wife’s niece –Mattie—who has come to take care of his ill wife –Zeena. The feelings between Ethan and Mattie are mutual even though they both know they cannot be together. Many critics have reviewed Ethan Frome as a depressing love story. Samuel Irving Bellman is one among many of the critics who have mixed emotions about the story.
In “A Rose for Emily” and “The Rocking Horse Winner” Faulkner and Lawrence present the theme of love in a twisted manner. Although both of these stories are about love, they are about two very different kinds of love: Emily Grierson is in a romantic relationship with Homer Baron, while Paul’s love is maternal for his mother. Both stories do however, give a macabre view of love, as they each end with the deaths of the protagonists. Although both stories illustrate love as a source of pain and anguish, it is Emily that presents a more twisted view of love, as she is in control of the decisions that she makes in her life. Conversely, Paul’s story is actually tragic in nature.
When the storm is gone so is the sexual contact Alcee then rides off and Calixta smiles and laugh as if it was not a big deal. * How are conflicts resolved? Why are events revealed in a particular order? "The Storm": More Than Just a Story Joanna Bartee In the short story "The Storm" by Kate Chopin, the two main characters, Calixta and Alcee, had a flirtation several years before the story takes place, but each made a more suitable marriage to someone else and they have not seen each other since. In the present when the action takes place they are reliving that time when their passion was at its climax.
The short story ‘Araby’ by Joyce and ‘The Horse Dealer’s Daughter’ by Lawrence both talk about the love story of the protagonists, but the uses of perspective and symbolism are different. The difference in the uses of perspective is that Joyce uses a first person point of view in ‘Araby’ to tell the story of an unnamed boy who had romantic feelings for an unnamed girl (Mangan’s sister) who lives next door and how is he being disappointed at the end of the story after he realized that the bazaar called Araby is not what he imagined, and the feeling for Mangan’s sister was just fantasy and superficial. By using the first person narrative, readers can understand how the narrator feels and thinks easily because the young boy is the narrator. The young boy’s infatuation with Mangan's sister is well presented to the reader by how he narrates his obsession with her using ”I” in “Every morning I lay on the floor in the front parlour watching her door”, “I kept her brown figure always in my eye” etc. While in Lawrence’s ‘The Horse Dealer’s Daughter’, a third person point of view is being used to tell the strange love story of the horse dealer’s daughter Mabel committed suicide and a doctor called Fergusson save her and how they fall in love.
We achieve these relationships in different ways but in the end they give each person the same feeling of a bond. Kukin, Olenka’s first husband, spoke in a thin tenor; as he talked his mouth worked on one side, and there was always an expression of despair on his face; yet he aroused a deep and genuine affection in her. She was always fond of someone, and could not exist without loving (“The Darling”). This depicts their relationship, he did not appear to be the most attractive man, was not in the best of spirits, but Olenka found that she could love him and everything he brought to the table, because he accepted her love. Olenka lived off the feeling of love and connectedness provided by her husband.
When being a mother; whether having a child born or not, you will always remember the child you once carried. She continues her poem with a personification to say that as small as they were in her stomach; “The damp small pulps with a little or with no hair”, they still belonged to her. (3) A few lines below, you feel the sympathy for her when she explains that future experiences will never happen with her and her child. Most mothers “scuttle off ghost that come” and “wind up the sucking-thumb” for their children when they are young, but in Brooks’s case, this will never be true. (8,7) In line 11; the start of the second stanza, Brooks explains she hears “the voices of the wind the voice of my dim killed children.”(11) She tells us this to show the remorse she feels from the decisions she had to make.