She is introduced as a woman who seems to be defeated because her husband has died, her family fortune is gone and she has drinking problems. Blanche's sister, Stella, attempts to provide for her in every way possible but finds it difficult when her husband, Stanley, continues to argue with Blanche. ... She could never find a perfect model of a husband because her ideals were too high and she did not want to face the reality of her foreboding situation. ... Blanche had a drinking problem, she had lost the family fortune and estate, her husband had died of suicide years earlier, and she wa...

• Word Count: 551
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

Hale also compares her to a bird "real sweet and pretty, but kind of timid and-fluttery" (107), also the ideal picture of a school girl. ... Hale states that her husband "killed that, too" (124). ... The canary's voice also displaced the silence of a cold authoritarian husband. ... Her husband wrung her birds" neck killing it. ... When her husband fell asleep she wrung his neck and took away his life in the same way he took her life away. ...

• Word Count: 764
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

At first, their visions of love are ideal. ... It is in an ideal situation that she never knows whether Ernest is a good person. ... Lady Bracknell says to Algernon, "I hadn't been there since her poor husband's death. ... After her husband's death, the unhappy life went to end, and then she tried to escape from previous life. ...

• Word Count: 1058
• Approx Pages: 4
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

She lives through a grandmother, three husbands, and innumerable friends. Throughout is all, she grows closer and closer to her ideals about love and how to live one's life. ... She does not get what she wants with Logan Killicks, her first husband. ... She thinks that he represents the romantic ideal that she has been searching for. ...

• Word Count: 1094
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

Willa Cather doesn't portray the ideals of helpless, dependent women whose only purposes were to produce children. ... Until after her husband's death, she rarely worked outdoors. ... Harling plays the role of the peacekeeper when her husband was at home. ... She successfully marries Cuzak, raises many children, maintains their farm and inspires her husband to keep going in the face of adversity. She is the dominating partner in her marriage while her ...

• Word Count: 2199
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: High School

Mary's killing of her husband is perhaps the ultimate betrayal. ... Identity In the beginning of the story, Mary is seen as a middle class ideal of a young mid-twentieth-century housewife, maintaining a tidy home and catering to her husband; pouring drinks when the man finishes his day. ... The pregnant Mary Malone is waiting at home for her husband Patrick to return from work. ... Cold hearted - She killed her husband with no remorse. ... Manipulative - creating an alibi to cover hers husband's murder. ...

• Word Count: 2792
• Approx Pages: 11
• Grade Level: High School

To show these secrets, the author builds up one small ideal world in the small town, Whistle Stop, and by using a newspaper from Dot Weems, the author wants to make us feel like a real member of that ideal society. ... When Idgie comes to know that Ruth is being abused by the husband, Frank, she finds a way to rescue Ruth to win her love. ... Then, we will be able to lead our life to ideal world just like Whistle Stop Caf?...

• Word Count: 1162
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

In the case of Margot, she is not at all satisfied with having a husband who, in her eyes, is a coward. He is not living up to the ideals and pictures she has about how you are a real man, and unfortunately Wilson lives to these standards, she thinks. And she has a very cynical way to show what she thinks of her husband's way of behaving. ... Margot can not tolerate that her husband is acting like this, and her way of showing this is by humiliating him as a kind of punishment. ...

• Word Count: 1000
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

When things with Belle Reve went sour she moved in with Stella and her husband Stanley who is basically the stranger lending his hand. ... Her husband committed suicide and Blanche was the reason why. ... The start of the play you see Blanche as the ideal woman, innocent and wealthy. ...

• Word Count: 1016
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

The Webster's dictionary defines the American dream as "the U.S. ideal according to which equality of opportunity permits any American to aspire to high attainment and material success". ... The Cleavers were the perfect family with a strong husband, loving wife, and two great kids. ... Women were expected to care for and love their husbands and take care of his needs before their own. ...

• Word Count: 1718
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

His dedication is like that of a husband. ... Instead of a degradation of women, the relationship between Catherine and Frederic represents an ideal for women and for men, one in which both are happy and dependent on one another. ...

• Word Count: 972
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School