But it doesn't matter because my father is coming home. ... "Mom, when is daddy coming home?... I know I have to go to sleep, but I hate going to sleep, because I know that I can't fall asleep for hours. ... I still keep wondering when my dad is coming home. ... Something that went to sleep with her never to wake up again. ...
Doreen and Esther went to a bar and sooner or later, Esther ends up getting drunk and walking home alone. ... Back home with her mother, Esther lacked summer jobs and schools. ... She stops sleeping and finds that she can neither read nor write. ... Finally, Esther decides to commit suicide by slitting her wrists, but her thinking is so distorted by the lack of sleep that she keeps failing of doing it. ... The falling action slowly goes down when the next morning, she takes an overdose of sleeping pills and hides herself in a hole in her mother's basement. ...
"I don't care," he said and turned over toward the wall and went back to sleep. ... Now this moment isn't too significant until the end of the story when he comes back home from fishing. ... The old memories of the car are the same as his wife sleeping with the buyer. ... But now they must sell the car and the wife must sleep with another man to get by. Despite she is doing this for the better for Leo and her, when she comes back home she seems happy ! ...
Alicia's father is always saying, "a women's place is sleeping so she can wake up early with the tortilla star, the one that appears early just in time to rise (p.31)." The way Alicia's father treats her is an example of the macho stereotype that kept Alicia a servant in her own home like her mother. ... Her father's suggestion that her existence should be sleep and housework display the sexist ideal that a higher education is wasted on a woman. ...
After overcoming such a long-term struggle, many women chose to stay home to maintain their families and not take part in the labor force. ... Now, earning a living usually requires leaving the home or even one's community to work long hours. This makes home and family, two completely separate aspects in an individual's lifestyle. ... Crosby, who published a novel, The Unexpected Advantages of Balancing Career and Home for Women and Their Families, affirms in her literature that, "intricate experiments by researchers say that children from affluent homes cared my mothers and nannies ...
The protagonist of the play (The African American woman), goes on to say, "My lover told me: Shush, we have too many stories to carry on our backs like houses, we have struggled too long to let the monsters steal our sleep, sleep, go to sleep". ... I did not break into your home, tell you how to live or die. ... " The protagonist watches her lover and her baby, living out their lives, waiting for her to come home, not knowing she's going to be late for supper tonight. In the end, she got her wish to finally dance in peace, only this time she was suspended in the air by a nu...
After the date, the average woman will go home, get into some comfortable pajamas, and call her best friends to tell them all about the night. Men usually just go back to what they were doing before the date: watching TV, eating a bag of chips, and sleeping. ... While men are happy to play a quick video game and go to sleep, women have to tell all. ...
This is especially true of "The Whole Town's Sleeping" by Ray Bradbury. ... "The Whole Town's Sleeping" reveals a society where women are weak, fragile and vulnerable, They were the victims of violence inflicted by men, and had to constantly be alert and wary, guarding themselves from any possible danger. ... Though she starts of "just not afraid" it is soon turned into panic and she admits her inferiority ("If I get home safe I will never go out alone, I was a fool"), conforming to the patriarchal ideology on the innate weakness of women. ...
Her home life and household shores became a burden. She move away from her husband and stopped doing her shores; her home life seemed to suffocate her and lead her to isolate herself from her family. ... Usually it is the responsibility of the mothers to care for the children, Even though she doesn't stay at home with them, society will point fingers on her if her children are not what everybody consider a success. ... She didn't want to disappoint everybody so she feck her sickness; stuffed herself with sleeping pill so she would ease her guilt. ... But one thing she was unaware of ...
The Giersons" home represents a shift from old to new by having both past and present qualities. ... The town quickly and secretively does away with the smell of the home like it does with the old viewpoint of women. ... When Emily dies, the town enters the home, "which no one had seen in forty years, and which would have to be forced"(80). ... She recovers only when another man, Homer Barron, enters her life to take care of her. ... Even after Homer's death, she sleeps next to his dead body and leaves an "indentation of [her] head-(81) next to his. ...
With the infamous potato famine wreaking havoc back home, the United States, having far better economic opportunities than Ireland, became home to the largest independent female migration in American history. ... In addition to factory jobs, Irish women also worked in mills and took up domestic work in American citizens' private homes. ... Imagine living in shacks, with a mere few feet between you and all neighboring shacks, sleeping on dirt floors with nothing but some bedding between you and the earth. ... Although not all followed this way of living, some Irish immigrant families adopt...
He does not love his wife, "he was afraid of her and disliked being at home."" ... Piskaryov is so captivated with her physical qualities that he follows her home, only to discover that she is a prostitute. He has one dream about the beautiful prostitute and will do anything to go back to sleep. ... When Anna does not sleep with him immediately, Gurov becomes annoyed. ... (Chekhov 541) He returns home and realizes that he cannot stop thinking about Anna. ...
Traditionally, the man must take care of the woman both financially and emotionally while the woman's role remains at home. ... Whenever Jane observes the moonlight John sleeps, acknowledging the idea that man is suppressed by the feminine aspects of the psyche (1155). ...
Lily Bart is a protagonist. The book follows her as she tries unsuccessfully to marry Percy Gryce. Mrs. Trenor, who was helping match Lily and Mr. Gryce, is furious with the way Lily ruined her chances with him. Lily accepts the rebuke and goes to pick up Mr. Trenor from the train station. On the wa...
Wright is the suspect in the murder of her husband, who was strangled in his sleep, found with the rope still around his neck. ... Wrights home for evidence. ... They imagine how she must have felt living a life in a home that ".. never seemed a very cheerful place" "..it's a lonesome place and always was, ..not having children makes less work - but it makes a quiet house." ...
During this time, women are suspected to perform duties in the home such as cleaning and cooking. They are not to have careers but let their husband work outside of the home. ... Once this tragedy occurred, she retreats to her room to be alone and "a child who [cried] itself to sleep continues to sob in its dreams- (148). ...
At first, both society and the movie industry preached that women should be dependent on men and remain in the home, in order to guarantee stability in the community and the family. ... Everyone in town works in one factory and they want a union, so Norma Rae leads it. although she portrayed to be a strong women, she is portrayed to be a strong women, and she fights for the union she still sleeps with a married man. In the late 1970's movies are beginning to portray women as strong individuals, but they still sleep around. ...
But now days some husbands are doing all the works at home, in exchange for respect and obedience from their wives when they are outside with friends. ... You start arguing at little things such as who gets to sleep on what side of the bed, and where we going to go out to eat. ... She starts telling you things such as how come you won't stay home and hang out with me? ... Of course you going to stay home and do whatever she wants. ...
The journal begins when John and the narrator move into a temporary home John has procured to provide the narrator the break from routine that he believes necessary for her rest and recovery. ... Against her wishes, John decides that he and his wife will sleep in the attic room of the house, which at one point may have been a nursery. ...
But if morals can be influenced in the home, what is stopping gender roles from being influenced also, and so much easier. ... All of the activity is to be done outside the home by the boys and the girls are told to stay indoors as to not wrinkle their new dress or mess their hair. ... These are things the child might have never seen in home. At home everyone uses the same bathroom and no one stands in separate lines. ... This is a part of the brain that controls heart rate, sleep and wakefulness, water and electrolyte balances and the function and movement of one's stomach and ...
Chekhov writes that Dmitri "secretly considered her unintelligent, narrow, inelegant, was afraid of her, and did not like to be at home- (238). ... Anna continues to ramble on about how wrong she is for sleeping with Dmitri, but he finds her conversation tedious. ... Dmitri got what he wanted from the young woman and Anna was off to see her husband, who had written a letter to her requesting she come home immediately. ... It is when Gurov returns to his home is Moscow that he realizes his true feelings for Anna. ... It is obvious that Dmitri is no longer interested in Anna for the sole pur...
He let her know that she needed her sleep so she could wake early and make breakfast. ... Rafaela was home completely alone when her husband was at work. ... As sweet as they are, she says she needs something sweeter to enliven her dead home. ...
The two make an arrangement with the miller to buy some hay so they could sleep outside. ... But Kasyan adamantly refused and told Turgenev that " she"ll walk home." Kasyan didn't provide any viable reason to force the girl to walk home alone. ...
