He seeks answers for unjust actions that occur in the culture. The main internal struggle between the two is that “Nwoye seeks for his father’s love and understanding, but Okonkwo is incapable of responding because he considers those emotions manly and effeminate” (Iyasere). This creates a problem due to his father putting achievement and success above everything else, including his own son. Okonkwo’s internal battles such as “his inability and refusal to balance his masculine and feminine virtues contribute to the destroyal of his relationship with Nwoye” (McLeish). Okonkwo’s incompetence to fulfill the emotional needs of Nwoye creates the pathway for the downward spiral of their relationship.
John’s insatiable desire for unconditional love is the impetus for his overwhelming unhappiness; however another contributing factor is John’s traumatic experiences in Vietnam. John’s impaired and unsatisfactory relationship with his father was an incitement for his unhappiness and induced John’s use of magic and imaginings as a way of disguising his unhappiness and despair. Due to his warped perception of love, John’s love for Kathy, however true, was a source of unhappiness because of doubt and fear. Additionally, John’s experiences in Vietnam contributed significantly to his misery and discontent, and sought out the affection that is attributed with politics. John’s defective relationship with his father caused his distorted perception of love, which provoked John to use magic and self-deception to subconsciously ameliorate his relationship with his father and conceal his unhappiness.
Rodriguez feels uncertain about himself and other people mostly the braceros that he resembled in a way and didn’t at all. Although barely looking at them sometimes, he still envied them. He felt uneasy feelings about other people and doubts about himself as well. Growing up into an adult, I can also relate to Rodriguez. When we step outside of our homes we feel different about ourselves: it makes us feel uncomfortable which also causes me to feel more insecure, less talkative depending on whom I’m speaking with, and feeling not good enough for anyone, not even myself.
I think this is because his family, especially his siblings Dewey Dell and Jewel, truly do not understand Darl’s positive intentions. Instead, they are just weirded out by his actions because they are too simple-minded and self centered to understand someone else’s motives who do not match their own, making him that much more subjective to be labeled as crazy. Not only do his intellectually inferior siblings misunderstand Darl, but also his own mother never liked
Happy has lived in the shadow of Biff his whole life, he feels that to get the attention he deserves he must strive to be more successful than his brother. When Willy was talking about Biff, Happy kept hinting that he was losing weight, but Willy seems to ignore him. “He is a marked-down version of his father, with not even a grand dream to cover his grossness. His only redeeming aspect is an easy-going fondness for his family” (Koon pg.37). Happy shows
Therefore he is constantly seeking his dad’s approval: “Yes”, said the boy forcing himself to acknowledge Jim’s kindness and affirmation. But Jim is not his dad.” Here it is obvious that it’s only the dad’s approval and confirmation that he is good enough for his dad. He is general a weak minded boy and is easily influenced by others i.e. when he is finally leaving for the trip he doesn’t really want to go because his mother has repeatedly expressed how bad an idea the trip is and so forth. The boy and the father’s relationship is quite self-conflicting as both parties are scared of loosing each other but they are also scared of committing to each other.
Holden is in the confusing process of passing from adolescence and innocence to what he feels is a corrupt adult society. Along the way, Holden has trouble finding identity and security as he isolates himself from his society by shutting out the world and criticizing others who he deems "phonies." Because he is so adamant to criticize the world and reject its values and conventions he consequentially isolates himself from people who try to him along the way through this stressful period of
At this point, Asbury feels very disheartened in his life for the things he has done. “What’s wrong with me is way beyond you” (O’Connor 95). Which means, Asbury chose his fate by not letting a doctor see him in person, which then brought Asbury down into a huge dump, making him feel more disappointed for what he has done. Secondly, he took a dangerous risk of drinking unpasteurized milk to make him suffer throughout this illness, “We’ve got to think free if we want to live free” (O’Connor 98)! Again, through Asbury’s mind he thought wrong when it’s not going to hurt his mother to lose two or three glasses of milk a day, when really it hurt Asbury himself by drinking the outdated milk, to make Asbury the person he is now.
Okonkwo’s Conflicts Continued Because of persistent beating and scolding, Nwoye is locked up by his own will and mind. Okonkwo thinks that Nwoye is effeminate and not independent enough to stand by his own will and become a man. Nwoye, who is Okonkwo’s son is known as the sad-faced youth. Okonkwo beat his son with frustration of him becoming like his own father, Unoka. Nwoye is improvident and dilatory with his activities, and Okonkwo disgusts him acting what his shameful father did.
Sachar tells the reader that Stanley was from a poor background; he didn’t have any friends, he was overweight and the kids at his middle school often teased him about his size. We also know that Stanley is, of course, self- conscious and will get embarrassed about his weight. Another thing the author tells us is that Stanley is not a bad kid and is innocent of the crime he “apparently” committed. I think that Louis Sachar is trying to show us that Stanley is not happy and not popular because of his “dirty, rotten, pig stealing, great, great grandfather”. However, Stanley loses lots of weight and becomes a very different person as a result of all the holes he digs, the long days starting before dawn and the lack of water and food.