... Each woman was looking for a way out of their depressing lives and memories for greener pasture but were all too scared to take the road alone. This is shown by Philomena Moosetail continually asking and begging Annie Cook to come with her to bingo and Pelajia Patchnose continually stating ... she wanted something else to be in Toronto. These seven women showed a lot of unity, not only to raise the money for the trip together but also to listen and care for each other. Each one of them opened up and shared their most painful secret during ... Each women had a different idea with what th...

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... has shown and eagerly places her seedlings in a pot for the salesman to take. The salesman leaves and Elisa eagerly returns to the house to get ready for her outing with Henry. While Henry and Elisa are making their way into town, she discovers the flower seedlings dumped out on the side of the road. Elisa is devastated by the way the salesman has lied to her and used her ... the way he did. She hides her feelings from her husband, trying to pretend to be interested in their evening plans while ... their beauty. His interest in her flowers made her believe he had an interest in her and...

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... the wagon who fixes pots and pans, the mood changes after she starts to talk to him. She then becomes interested in how he lives his life in his wagon. Elisa's curiosity in the man grows and she starts to have these feeling of what it would be like to live in the wagon and to travel the road, ... with freedom and no inhibitions. She becomes very upset when he said that the wagon is not a place for a woman. That right there changes her whole tone from being happy with everything that ... she has and is. Then she gets upset because this guy is telling her where her place is. She gives him...

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... windows seem to intensify her oppression, and her perception that she is being imprisoned. Gilman also uses the young woman's description of the summer home to express her feeling of being all alone. "It is quite alone, standing well back from the road, quite three miles from the village. It makes me think of English places that you read about, for there are hedges and ... she is fading away. As the oppression consumes the young woman, she begins to imagine the wallpaper smell is trying to overtake her. "But there is something else about the paper the smell! ...it creeps all over the ho...

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... chrysanthemum sprouts to bring to his friend. Her bubbly enthusiasm for her flowers is blatantly feminine in characteristic. When the drifter leaves Elisa seems like a transformed woman. She is feeling strong emotions for him. She is intrigued by the way he lives on the road and wishes "women could do such things" (paragraph 80). As she watches him leave her emotions are displayed: "Elisa stood ... in front of the wire fence watching the slow progress of the caravan. Her shoulders were, straight, her head thrown back, her eyes half closed, so ... ). She boasts that she is stronger than ...

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... exterior about her. Elisa then dries herself off, and she studies her body in the mirror. She has become comfortable with being a woman just by receiving attention from a male who is interested in her "life." After studying herself, she applies her makeup, and she puts on her newest underclothing. She is looking forward to her evening with her husband. She hopes Henry ... will recognize her need as a woman, and he will provide her with the romance and excitement for which she longs. Her hope is finally crushed when she sees the flowers on the road. She feels devastated by the tinker's t...

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... exterior about her. Elisa then dries herself off, and she studies her body in the mirror. She has become comfortable with being a woman just by receiving attention from a male who is interested in her "life." After studying herself, she applies her makeup, and she puts on her newest underclothing. She is looking forward to her evening with her husband. She hopes Henry ... will recognize her need as a woman, and he will provide her with the romance and excitement for which she longs. Her hope is finally crushed when she sees the flowers on the road. She feels devastated by the tinker's t...

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... 34). She renounces her conformist life at the age of eight to follow the ways of a soldier. Unlike what is expected of her, the character has a voice. She has the choice to take the path she desires. Ever since she was young, she has known how to take this road in life: "When we Chinese girls listened to the adults talkstory, we learned that we failed if ... we grew up to be but wives and slaves. We could be heroines, swordswomen" (Kingston 33). In this story, women are restricted to the life preset to them by someone else. However, by training ... space" (Kingston 38). She therefore r...

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... of life Elisa Allen would like to live. He is described as a big, bearded, and graying man with a captivating presence whose eyes are dark. He lives his life on the road, travelling the country and making whatever little money he can from his loyal customers by fixing their pots or knives. He promptly and repeatedly asks her if she has anything he can ... craves. She later says "I am strong, I never knew before how strong" (266). Finally the moment she sees her flowers dumped on the road, she feels rejected and emotionally deflated. She realizes that all the man wanted were pots to fix...

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... Celie. These women defy this stereotype and make the statement backwards. The women in this novel were not always the feminine type who depended on their husband or man. They were independent. Shug for example, she made her living by singing and performing across the country. She did not depend on her husband, Grady. "And now she off on the road for two weeks, and me, Grady, and Squeak ... rattle round the house tryin to get our stuff together."(P. 218) This quote shows that Shug is off to work again, without Grady ... declares her independence from Mr.____. And she is ready to start a...

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... back from the road and located three miles from town. The property boasts protective hedges that surround the garden, walls that surround the estate, and locked gates which guarantee seclusion. Even the connecting garden represents confinement, with box-bordered paths and grape-covered arbors. This isolation motif continues within the mansion itself. Although she preferred the downstairs room, the narrator finds herself confined to the dungeon-like nursery on the second floor ... uncertain curves for a little distance they suddenly commit suicide destroy themselves in unheard of contrad...

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... is because she is forced into gardening and that is all she has to think about. Elisa becomes frustrated with her life once she meets the man, a tinker, on the wagon. She looks for stimulation conversation and sex, two components lacking in her life. Although Elisa was blunt towards answering all of ... is always thinking and feeling, and how rarely she gets to express herself. Once the tinker leaves, she realizes how dissatisfied she is with her marriage. This is shown when Elis whispers goodbye to the tinker while he is on his way back to the road. She seems to be in some kind of haze, ...

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... and coax her into opening up and discussing random things such as "strange light on the sea- and "how sultry it was after a hot day."" As they continued to meet, Anna's passiveness continued to be reflected in the way she acted. He asked her "Where shall we go now? Shall we ... ."" Everything else in his life has become meaningless. "What senseless nights, what uninteresting, uneventful days! The rage for card-playing, the gluttony, the drunkenness, the continual talk always about the same thing."" These were the things that he had tried to occupy himself with before. When Anna left he ...

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... of them genuinely believe that this method is the only way to make the narrator well again. When the narrator arrives at the house in which she has no choice but to stay in, she describes it as "The most beautiful place! It is quite alone, standing well back from the road, quite three miles from the village. It makes me think of English places that you ... read about, for there are hedges and walls and gates that lock, and lots of separate little houses for the gardeners and stuff" (Perkins Gilman 345). This is when the reader is introduced to the physical setting in the story. At first...

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... experience with women drivers, who at times, have no idea what is going on around them in my opinion. On more than one occasion I have been nearly killed by a "soccer mom- changing lanes without signaling with her Escalade or minivan. Furthermore, I would estimate that seventy-five percent of the time when I am passed on the road, it is by a young woman speeding while talking to someone ... on a cell phone. In conclusion, I feel that while both sexes do some silly things while driving, men do less dangerous things less often then ... women. The things men do are conscious, thought out ...

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... to suspicion and ridicule because they were unable to abide by the ideals. Western women experienced an unusual lifestyle due to their traveling situation. Not only did they partake in the usual feminine duties of sewing, cooking, cleaning, and childcare; they were given another set of roles because of the demands of the road. Travel meant teamwork and they quickly found themselves doing men's ... work; repairing wagons, making bridges and driving the oxen. However, this extra work did not gain them any more superiority or power in the family. They struggled to keep the male/female line...

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... . Successful romance in these works then, is what drives the characters and brings joy to the gloom that ensues when apart from the object of one's affection. Two Shakespeare productions that veer from this common pursuit of love are Macbeth and Love's Labour's Lost, which focus not on the optimistic journeys to secure love, but rather the dark road paved from a mind clouded by love's thick disillusionment ... . Through the manipulation of stereotyped gender roles and the emphasis on romantic attachment in Macbeth and Love's Labour's Lost, Shakespeare clearly points to love as ... ...

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... person, and although the narrator is not the main character, he lends significant importance to the symbolism that takes place throughout the tale. In the first part of the story our nameless storyteller introduces his reader to an old woman; one that everyone sees, but nobody knows. Demonstrating society's lack of concern for such an old woman, the narrator states, "People drive right down a road and never notice ... an old woman like that" (23). In this first section he uses the words "old woman" eight times, and yet we know he considers her to be strong, not frail like ... is used w...

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... paid for her mistake by seriously endangering her life...Your desire for great-grandchildren cannot be keener than mine for children. Their descent from both of us should make their road to office easier; I can leave them a well-known name and an established ancestry, if only they may be born and turn our present grief to joy." In this letter, he ... carving, we can see that Roman women had midwives, to help them along with the birth. A Roman mother giving birth to a baby. A slave girl (on the left) and the midwife (on the right) are helping her. It is thought that only wealthy houses h...

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... and goal is to have to biggest chrysanthemums each year until she is visited by a traveling "Mr. Fix It." The day he turned down her road, she grew, more than she would ever realize. When she witnesses the life he lives and all the exciting journeys he has lead, she starts to think and wish for a different life of her own. Feeling trapped in ... is waiting for him so they can leave for dinner in town. Henry comments that she looks strong that evening and she is offended. Then again in the car, when they pass the traveling man on the road she begins to cry and can not look in his directi...

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... , their jeans thread-bare and torn. Findlay longed for that freedom, but all he was, being nothing to them, just a boring mechanic - nothing to the world. Findlay's father is suffering; he is dying from lung cancer, but still refuses to be admitted to hospital (as seen in an earlier quote). At ... can be broken down into "Fin" which means "end of", and "Lay" which means "poem/fine verse". During his lunch breaks Findlay doesn't got to the pub across the road for a re-heated pie and pints of heavy, unchanged out of their dirty overalls - "a uniform-worn with pride". He preferred to remove ...

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... heavily overridden with worry and fear due to the ruthless domestic standards of the community she lives in, that she has to sacrifice her daughter's expressive input. This lack of effective communication and misunderstanding extends the conflict in their relationship. The slaughtering of the daughter's voice goes back to being a cause of social and environmental necessity. The daughter, on the road to womanhood, led by her mother, is weighed ... down by the double standard values and prejudice beliefs of the society she lives in. Her mother tells her to not "squat while ... ...

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... were young lady again. In the end of the story, there is another occasion that illustrates Elisa's emotions reacting from a direct cause of the chrysanthemums. As Elisa and Henry were driving to dinner, Elisa spots a dark spec on the road and notices what it was immediately; it was the chrysanthemum sprouts that she had gave to the man to give to the lady down the road who he had mentioned (253 ... ). According to the narrator, "The roadster turned a bend and she saw the caravan ahead. She swung full around toward her husband so she could not ... you"re changed again" (253). She later a...

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... during prohibition was a more profitable trip than using his boat for just a fishing charter. When he was on his way back from Cuba on one of his smuggling trips, Cubans who were trying to steal his cargo shot him in the arm. Since he didn't get any medical attention right away, his arm had to be amputated thus painting him as a traditional pirate ... in a battle and a heart cold as an icicle. Never did he hesitate to take someone's life, a stealing cheating, lying type of person that you hope to never do business with. On the other hand, you could see how much Harry cared for the innoc...

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... she yearns to be there again. She cannot come to grips with herself and somewhat isolates herself from the outside world. Like Nora in Tirra Lirra by the River, the woman in The Persimmon Tree also had facial reconstruction. This similar attribute connects the two through their fixations on self-image and how it has harmfully affected their lives. I have found that through reading this book ... , the authors use many types of symbolism to express what they are trying to tell the readers. Anderson is trying to portray to the reader that sometimes women, in general, take the wrong road and...

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