Preview

Waiting for Love & Aubrey by Cheryl Albury

Good Essays
Open Document
Open Document
640 Words
Grammar
Grammar
Plagiarism
Plagiarism
Writing
Writing
Score
Score
Waiting for Love & Aubrey by Cheryl Albury
Discuss the way that Albury portrays the Bahamian male in any TWO stories from Perspectives from Inner Windows. Is this a true reflection of the Bahamian society?

Cheryl Albury portrays the Bahamian male in dissimilar, but similar ways throughout Perspectives from Inner Windows. How she does it will be explained by using the stories “Aubrey” and “Waiting for Love”. In the story “Aubrey”, Cheryl Albury presents an attractive, successful man to the audience by the name of Aubrey. He was privileged to work amongst the Caucasian guests who went to visit the Bahamas. During this time, he encountered a captivating yet bewitching female by the name of Alicia Corning. He was mesmerized in a rapture of sensual confinement. Mrs. Corning knew the affect she had on the opposite sex and she took full advantage of this affect. Alicia was probably sexually frustrated due to the fact that her husband travelled frequently. She saw Aubrey as potential bait and hooked him and wheeled him in without much effort. Due to the lustful nature of Aubrey as a man, he fell right into her trap. He was punished for allowing a woman to prey upon him. Cheryl Albury uses Aubrey to show that some Bahamian men don’t care about the fact that a woman might be married, if he is sexually attracted to her and vice versa he will take the opportunity he has to please his fleshly desires. Aubrey allowed a woman to entice him and take advantage of him. In the story “Waiting for Love” there was a character by the name of Stafford. He saw a pure, young lady by the name of Phyllis and was immediately enchanted by this appealing woman. He met her and they eventually started to date. Phyllis was instantaneously taken aback when she saw Stafford for the first time. He was such a gentleman. In this story, Albury presents men as creatures who take advantage of naïve females. Stafford waited patiently until he could persuade Phyllis enough that he loved her then when he had the chance he had sex with her and

You May Also Find These Documents Helpful

  • Satisfactory Essays

    Most people are afraid of sharks and don’t want anything to do with them but there are people that actually know things about sharks and don’t fear them. Sharks much like people come in all different shapes and sizes and can and do live mainly everywhere. What people don’t know is that sharks are much like people they take care of their young by protecting them, feeding them, teaching them to hunt. They are thought of as cold-blooded killers but they aren’t they just do what they have to do to survive they hunt to eat they can’t go to a grocery store and buy food they have to hunt for it they will eat what they…

    • 379 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Satisfactory Essays
  • Good Essays

    When she wrote Charlotte: A Tale of Truth, she wanted to protect vulnerable young women from doing the wrong thing. She wrote, “Oh my dear girls—for to such only am I writing—listen not to the voice of love, unless sanctioned by paternal approbation: be assured, it is now past the days of romance." Rowson felt that women should know some of the basics to protect themself from rakes, and wanted to teach them to marry the right man. She felt as if young women were easily seduced by men. She warns the reader by writing “In affairs of love, a young heart is never in more danger than when attempted by a handsome young soldier.” For example, Charlotte decided to rebel against her parents and became romantically involved with Montraville, a man her parents disapproved of. Charlotte was a young naïve 15 year old girl that got seduced by an attractive man that promised “the world” to her. He promised to marry her but instead, took her to New York, and then he abandoned her and their unborn child. Charlotte’s fate went bad when she decided to follow her heart instead of her parents. She was seduced and betrayed by the man she fell deeply in love with, this is what Rowson was trying to prevent in the lives of her young readers. In Part II of Judith Sargent Murray’s essay she wrote, “Praise is sweet to the soul; we are immediately intoxicated by large…

    • 1676 Words
    • 7 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    "Girl" by Jamica Kincaid

    • 715 Words
    • 3 Pages

    “Girl” by Jamaica Kincaid is a short story/poem was published in The New Yorker in 1978. There are many things that the story “Girl” shows us. One is the oppression of women and the lack of the options that women got. Another is the change in parenting techniques as orders like these wouldn’t be issued in today’s world. The narrator also shows how the gender role has grown since the late 1970s, shows the little girl protesting toward her mother, and shows the love a mother has for her daughter.…

    • 715 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    Anthem By Gabrielle Trede

    • 819 Words
    • 4 Pages

    “It is a sin to write this.” begins the story of Anthem. By the end of the story, Equality 7-2521 has a different moral assessment of his actions, but was the eventual assessment of his actions correct? His eventual evaluation being that of seeing this as a breaking of bonds with collectivity, an achievable freedom and disregard of the Council. In all terms, this judgment is correct, indifferent to the few flaws it may have. This can be proven through evidence from the book.…

    • 819 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Powerful Essays

    In recounting her life experiences before she was freed, Jacobs offered her contemporary readers a startlingly realistic portrayal of her sexual history while a slave. Although several male authors of slave narratives had referred to the victimization of enslaved African American women by white men, none had addressed the subject as directly as Jacobs finally chose to. She not only documented the sexual abuse she suffered, but also explained how she had devised a way to use her sexuality as a means of avoiding exploitation by her master. Risking her reputation in the disclosure of such intimate details, Jacobs appealed to a northern female readership that might sympathize with the plight of a southern mother in bondage. Indeed, throughout her narrative, Jacobs focuses on the importance of family and motherhood. She details the strain of being separated from her grandmother and two children during her seven years in hiding, and afterwards in New York and Boston, when she lacked the means to free her daughter. As her biographer Jean Fagan Yellin has noted, Jacobs's slave narrative is similar to other narratives in its story of struggle, survival, and ultimately freedom. Yet she also reworks the male-centered slave narrative genre to accommodate issues of motherhood and sexuality. By confronting directly the cruel realities that plagued…

    • 1670 Words
    • 7 Pages
    Powerful Essays
  • Satisfactory Essays

    Thus, Kincaid portrays her speech with anger because she displays the reader her resentment of anger towards the effect of colonialism and the Antiguan culture. Lucy’s believes her upbringing is a result of a sexism act as she believes “was devoted to preventing her from becoming a slut” (Kincaid 127). It shows there are expectations of women that Antiguan mothers imposed on their daughters. Women being portrayed as slut is a further developed, but the conversation Lucy and her mother had and how this sexist comment is based on her gender and not her promiscuous actions. This also displayed dictatorship because she must follow what her mother believes is true.…

    • 547 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Satisfactory Essays
  • Good Essays

    If I Stay By Gayle Foreman

    • 1219 Words
    • 5 Pages

    “If i stay” by Gayle Foreman is about a seventeen year old girl named Mia Hall who had everything, a perfect relationship, a loving family and best friend, and a future of becoming a professional cellist with a goal of attending Julliard. One snowy day, when school is out, her family decides to go on a roadtrip to visit friends and there is a tragic accident. That day Mia lost everything, her parents, her brother and almost her own life. From that moment on Mia’s spirit, trapped between life and death, lives amongst the ones she loves the most and she has to decide whether to stay or go. The movie and the book both show this but in different ways, the book has much more detail and more character description, where the movie felt more rushed and kept out a lot of detail that may have been needed.…

    • 1219 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    Girl by kincaid

    • 820 Words
    • 2 Pages

    In The Story of an Hour by Kate Chopin the character Louise Mallard has to be gently told that her husband has died tragically. Her sister Josephine tells her that her husband Bentley died in a railroad accident. Louise Mallard cries and mourns her husbands death but in the back of her mind, she is thinking she will finally be free. Although Bentley was always good to her, she can now have a life of her own without feeling oppressed. She feels that men and women oppress each other even if they do it out of kindness. She fantasizes about how her life will be without her husband and hopes that she will live a long life. Suddenly the door opens and Bentley walks in. He is alive and was not in the accident. Louise mallard dies of a heart attack the doctors say it was from happiness.…

    • 820 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    Leslie Bell’s “Hard to Get”, Barbara Fredrickson’s “Love 2.0”, and Daniel Gilbert’s “Immune to Reality” all focus on a central theme of the unconscious while touching on the subject uniquely. Bell touches on the subject of the unconscious through the idea of splitting, Fredrickson focuses on the unconscious in terms of the body’s perspective on love, and Gilbert expresses his views on the unconscious through his idea of “cooking the facts (Gilbert 131).” Each author expresses the importance of the unconscious thought and the influence it can have on our interactions and behaviors, and to what degree. Fredrickson believes making the unconscious conscious in more positively influential, whereas Bell and Gilbert believe making the unconscious…

    • 166 Words
    • 1 Page
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    THE BOOK OF NEGROES

    • 1189 Words
    • 5 Pages

    As a male writer, Laurence Hill perfectly describes everything from a girl’s perspective. She was one of three thousands slaves that were transfer from West Africa to America since 1700s. Among those three thousand lives, every single one had their own story, their lifetime long stories, and different ones. However, Aminata’s story was no doubt a particular one, a splendid one,…

    • 1189 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    Updike 's “A&P” is an interesting story of attitude and the male ego. Sammy, being young and obviously very observant, describes in first person point of view the events that lead up to him quitting his job. The theme of “A&P” is central to the idealistic and moral values of young verses old. As represented in the difference of attitude towards the girls regarding the wearing of swim suits in the local grocery store. While the girls are strolling through the various aisles, Sammy is enthralled with the appearance with one girl more than the other two. He apparently does not have an issue with the attire of the girls. Moreover, he is better inclined to allow his hormones to control the situation. This is evident by the way Sammy describes the three girls, each one with a unique style and flare. An example of this would be the way in paragraph 1 and 4 where he refers to the backside of one of the girls as a “can”. A contrast to that description would be the way he describes Queenie. Immediately noticing that the straps of her suit were down tells the reader that in Sammy 's mind the girls were objects of fixation and mere physical gratification. The second paragraph shows this very well when Sammy compares the minds of girls to a buzz like a bee in a glass jar. In the opinion of this reader Sammy is no more than an over sexed teenager wandering through the toils of his daily life at work fantasizing about every pretty face he sees.…

    • 567 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Powerful Essays

    Chrysanthemums

    • 1179 Words
    • 5 Pages

    Elisa Allen is the main character in the story “Chrysanthemums”. “She was thirty-five. Her face was lean and strong and her eyes were as clear as water.” Elisa is a proud, passionate and hard working woman who devotes her time to her flower garden because that is where she is most noticed. Her husband Henry says to her: “’At it again,’ he said. ‘You’ve got a strong new crop coming.” She is also lonely and frustrated from being ignored and underappreciated. The sexual repression she feels is shown several times during her conversation with the old man in the wagon. “She was kneeling on the ground looking up at him. Her breast swelled passionately.” “Kneeling there, her hand went out toward his legs in the greasy black trousers. Her hesitant fingers almost touched the cloth. Then her hand dropped to the ground. She crouched low like a fawning dog.” Although she immediately feels ashamed of their conversation and bathes quickly to cleanse herself the sexual frustration is clear. In…

    • 1179 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Powerful Essays
  • Powerful Essays

    The childhood experiences of both writers show how their cultural identity was at risk of being erased. In his essay “Kiss of Death,” Armando Rendón articulates his brush with Anglo cultural dominance and his willingness to abandon who he was by stripping himself completely of his heritage (91). While Rendón’s childhood serves as an excuse to allow his cultural fire to die out, Judith Cofer expresses her confusing adolescence in “The Myth of the Latin Woman: I just Met a Girl Named Maria,” in stating, “I suffered from what I think of as a ‘cultural schizophrenia’” (391). Rendón’s Mexican-American heritage is intentionally forgotten in an attempt to blend in with his fellow classmates, to assimilate into the Eurocentric American culture. Cofer’s Puerto Rican parents, on the other hand, are very strict in ensuring that she lives her life as a Puerto Rican in America. Cofer’s Puerto Rican background leads to a cultural clash with her environment where she is viewed as an outsider because of her choice of clothing and her Latino appearance. From childhood onward, both writers grow to understand their cultures in a…

    • 1355 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Powerful Essays
  • Good Essays

    ‘Song of Hope’ is a poem written by Oodgeroo Nuccal (Kath Walker) an Aboriginal Australian. The piece is classified as Aboriginal Australian literature. It was published in the 1960’s. The purpose of the text is to give hope in a new beginning after the events involving the racial tension between the Aboriginals and the white settlers. The poem is directed to the Aboriginal people of Australia who suffered from these events.…

    • 2236 Words
    • 9 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Powerful Essays

    “Girl” & Barbie Doll

    • 2455 Words
    • 10 Pages

    Cited: Kincaid, Jamaica. “Girl.” Dimensions of Culture 3: Imagination. Ed. Nancy Gilson, Cristin McVey, and Abraham Shragge. San Diego: University Readers, 2007. 485-86.…

    • 2455 Words
    • 10 Pages
    Powerful Essays

Related Topics