After she decides to end her life, she leaves a beautifully written letter to her husband expressing the way she felt about him. “I owe all the happiness of my life to you….I don’t think two people could have been happier than we have been.” (Cunningham 7) For her to make sure that her husband is well aware that it is not his fault she committed suicide demonstrates how much love they truly have for one another. Virginia felt trapped and felt her only choice was to kill herself. However, it was not society or her husband she felt she needed to get away from but herself. Writing was her passion, writing was her life, and if she could no longer write she didn’t have a reason or desire to continue living.
She does not even care about the death of her former lover, the Great Gatsby, which proved that the love between Daisy and Gatsby is not true love at all. Hope is disillusioned by their untrue love. Another person that chooses not to come is Gatsby’s work partner, Wolfshiem. He says that “he cannot come down now as (he is) tied up in some very
With having multiple lovers outside her marriage, Leonce leaves Edna, which only adds to the solitude she initially wanted. Edna's disaccociation by her friends and family is brought on by her amount of expression and the rate at which she gains the knowledge of her independence. Due to her near complete severence she feels both alone and unfulfilled. This feeling fuels her to attempt suicide, which she is successful when she drwons herself. This is a interpretation of the feelings that society had during those times about sexual expression and adultery and also suide.
The poem is written from the point of view of the betrayed sister, left alone without her loved one. So we are told of her anger and rollo-coaster of emotions as she comes to terms with the devastation her sister has caused. The speaker states that even if she ‘had not been born at all He’d never have looked at’ Maude, hinting that it was Maude’s jealously which lead her to snitch on her sister. The first stanza shows a lot of outrage that the speaker feels towards Maude. It is opened with a rhetorical question, ‘Who told my mother of my shame, who told my father of my dear?’ This shows that the poem is a direct curse towards her sister Maude and has an intended audience.
For example, in this passage we understand that Norah is struggling with the grief of her lost daughter and doesn't want to let go of her memory, "Phoebe she would keep alive in her heart." (88) It helps us understand the reasoning behind her actions of drunk driving, dreams of lost things, and escalated emotion at random as well as other actions the character demonstrates through out the novel. The deception of her daughter effects Norah and explains why she bought the camera,"...So he'd capture every moment, so he'd never forget. "(88) Norah doesn't want her husband, sister and not even neighbours to dismiss her daughter as unimportant. Norah's great pain because of the "death" of her child causes her to be scared of change, she wishes she could capture a happy moment, and stay in that moment-perhaps forever. "
The lost of Codi’s baby is another reason for distant attitude towards others. She had no one to go to for comfort. Not even by Loyd or her own father, Doc Homer. This then makes Codi create a personal wall towards others in the fear of letting others come in her life. However, Hallie never went through a lost of a loved one as bad as Codi did.
She speaks to the Corinthian women and asks them to keep her secret if she were to find a way to punish Jason, his bride, and her father, “And so I want to ask something from you. If I find some way to punish Jason for these injustices, along with his bride and father too, say nothing. In other things……, but when she’s hurt in love, her marriage violated, there’s no heart more desperate for blood than hers.” (pg 8). When Jason betrayed her, he becomes the enemy she must conquer at all costs. High in extreme
13-18) Lady Macbeth voices her concern over Macbeth’s nature, stating that he is “too full o’ the milk of human kindness” to commit the murder that Lady Macbeth desires. Lady Macbeth is not troubled by murder. Given her immoral mindset, no despicable act is beyond her. She simply has to work harder to overcome Macbeth’s reluctance. Accordingly, Lady Macbeth shows that she is willing to perform any evil act in order to ascend to the throne.
Addie Bundren valued her aloneness. It was something she knew belonged to her and that she had control over. When she married Anse, she was not emotionally equipped to receive, or to return, the emotions involved with marital intimacy. Therefore, the birth of a son, Cash, was not something she perceived as a gift. The prenatal Cash was a part of her, someone inside of her from whom she could never isolate herself.
Indirect suicide In Susan Glaspell’s Trifles Minnie Wright is a woman who when was young was once outgoing and lively until she married a harsh, cold hearted, and anti-social farmer. Her isolation and her husband’s cruelty slowly drove her to murder her husband; she tried to have some sort of happiness. But Mr. Wright kills the only thing that makes her happy. Susan Glaspell is trying to say that Mr. Wright’s murder is then inevitable and justified. Glaspell shows in this play that because of Mr. Wrights controlling nature he isolated Minnie Wright.