After her sickness, her mother seemed to be embarrassed of her daughter, even though she loved her dearly. She was intelligent, but preferred to stay alone, so she regularly skipped school to go to museums. She loved to study paintings and photos, looking at the details in every work.…
A white colored dress symbolizes of purity and innocence, pure and unspoiled. Every time when Guy Montag sees her eyes, he sees himself on her eyes like it suspends into the shining drops of bright water, and he can see himself dark and tiny with a fine detailed on her eyes. One of the things that Clarisse love to do on a basic rainy day is that she loves to go outside and put her head up so like that the rain drops would fall on her lips afterwards she licks it, she also let the rain fall into her month. Clarisse interprets the rain that it taste like wine and asks Guy if he ever tired it.…
“Her skin was light…tawny. Her hair, a miraculous chromium yellow, was pulled into a ponytail of tiny spiral curls, like the springs in old ballpoint pens…She searched up and down the street, and for a moment her gaze lands on Ron. A murky, underwater feeling enveloped him.”…
Michele Serros expresses her personal history into the short story, to give more detailing and more interest. In the short story as the narrator points out her important routine every morning as she starts telling the history of to why she pinches her nose. Utilizing characterization the narrator offers the appearance and values of her friend Terri. “She was the first girl who wore contact lenses and four pairs of Chemin de Fers” Behind her tone her mood sets of the fact that deep down inside she looked up to Terri as if she’s her “Idol”. Though, at the beginning, the narrator did not feel that she had to change, she did not feel that she’s different. As the story progresses the narrator has changed her whole perspective on how “different” she seems. The narrator went from a normal non self-conscious girl to a girl that looks at herself as a whole different person because of her pain that she has carried from the 7th grade.…
Bethany and Carla experienced success in Beauty. Carla was a famous, “beautiful catalogue model that was going to become a big time model soon after speaking with Ralph Lauren” (Martin 735). On the other hand, Bethany, the smart one, “received a $40,000 job offer straight out of college. She also published several short stories” (735). Carla was characterized as the perfect and beautiful success story, while Bethany was characterized as the ugly screw-up. However, neither person was happy in their respective positions. Carla was always annoyed, “and always hung by her fingernails in modeling. She felt like she had zero privacy, and guys would hassle her on the street and pressure her from the beginning of a relationship. She never was able to have a long relationship” (736). Likewise, Bethany did not see herself as a success story because, “she did not see herself as a beautiful individual” (736). They both envied each other’s success and looks. This alone shows the reader that the characters were very jealous of each other’s lives.…
The protagonist of the story, Connie, is a vain, “typical” teenage girl, looking for attention, especially from the opposite sex. Constantly “…craning her neck to glance in mirrors” (614), she often considered her appearance and how she looked to others to be a matter of extreme, if not most, importance.…
The poem Woman on a Beach written by Anne Michaels does an exquisite job at making an everyday event, seem so unique and unordinary. The author is really able to capture the reader’s attention by using exceptional adjectives to describe the setting and environment of the beach. This author is able to make the reader feel like they are actually there, through the use of their imagery. She is really able to describe the setting, so that the reader can almost feel the relaxation the women are feeling and have somewhat of the same experience. The symbolism however, is not as noticeable as the imagery but is still present. The main piece of symbolism is the use of the “red shirt”. Anne makes it notable that the red shirt stands out from the pale sky. The red shirt could symbolize the women in general, and how together they are strong and support one another so much that it would stand out to the rest of the people on the beach, or in this case stands out from the sky. She composes the thought of the beach being peaceful enough to allow someone to fall asleep on it, and able to spend the whole day on the beach, it seems very relaxing. By the end of this poem I got the feeling that being on a beach is an exquisite way to relax, and calm yourself down, and just be alone with your thoughts even if you’re with a group of…
The Yellow Wallpaper” is, on its surface, about a woman driven insane by post-partum depression and a dangerous treatment. However, an examination of the protagonist’s characterization reveals that the story is fundamentally about identity. The protagonist’s projection of an imaginary woman — which at first is merely her shadow — against the bars of the wallpaper’s pattern fragments her identity, internalizing the conflict she experiences and eventually leading to the complete breakdown of the boundaries of her identity and that of her projected shadow.…
This story is centered on the main character Elisa Allen. Elisa is unhappy and frustrated with her position in life, and she is struggling to establish masculinity in any way that she can. Her character is first introduced as “blocked and heavy”, with clodhoppers, heavy gloves and a man’s black hat. Her face is described as “eager and mature and handsome.…
My New Mexico village, though determinedly and anciently Hispanic, had a minority of Anglo immigrants seeking a simpler life. Within this group, this woman was agreed to be the most beautiful and accomplished. Her handsome husband had found her when she was working as a paleontologist in Africa and had enticed her back to her native America, and to this village. The Prize.…
Belisa Crepusculario is literally a self-made woman: she chose her own name and makes a living selling words. (She travels around selling everything from verses from memory to simple stories to secret words. Everyone knows and respects her.) Her fame, however, is a result of her fortitude: as a youth, hunger, heat, and exhaustion of centuries ate at her and killed four siblings; she decided to trick death by dragging herself to the sea’s water.…
Many authors have written with the thought of angelic perfection in mind, casting their notion of “ideal” onto the main character. Humans are seemingly obsessed with achieving a state of pure faultlessness, though everyone’s different opinion of the ultimate person creates much debate. There are mixed messages in Shakespeare’s play write, Taming of the Shrew, for some say Bianca Minola’s flawless front covers her inner fiend. However, most feel that her physical beauty as well as her ideal attitude makes Bianca the picturesque wife.…
Also, she tells us about her bad experience as a child, she attended a lot of funerals. When she was young, she saw the death around her in every place. For an example, in her article “we are ugly, but we are here,” she says, “when I was eight, my uncle’s brother-in-law went on a long journey to cut cane in the Dominican Republic. He came back deathly, I'll.” Also, the women in her society do no have any rights, but they still have a hope in tomorrow. They believed that “if a life is lost, then another one springs up replanted somewhere…
The themes of this short story include jealousy, obsession with narcissism and the emergence of another identity. In this short story, jealousy is displayed when Monica has the narrator choose between the real her and the Monica in the mirror. In the story, “Once, she said, “You know, sometimes I think you like me better there”—she pointed to a mirror—“than here”—she pointed to herself. She said it teasingly, with a little laugh, but in her look was an anxious question.” The Monica in the mirror was described in this excerpt: “a fresh Monica, a vibrant Monica, a Monica with a glow of pleasure in her face. She was dressed in clothes that no longer seemed a little drab, a little elderly, but were handsomely understated, seductively restrained.” The real Monica is depicted in the excerpt “Not for a moment did the mirror make her look young, or beautiful, for she was not young and she was not beautiful. But it was as if some inner constriction had dissolved, some sense of her drifting gradually into unhappiness.” Jealousy is what drove the…
Let me talk about the most beautiful woman in the world, I even cannot describe how beautiful she is, in my mind, she has a perfect face, with blue deep-set eyes, protruding nose and reddish lip. Her beauty has been admitted all around the world when Blanchett has been named one of PEOPLE's Most Beautiful.…