A week earlier his wife, Becky, had been sitting in the same chair, weeping uncontrollably. ... Meeting my wife's need for love is a choice I make each day. ... He had hoped that the feelings would go away and that he could work things out with his wife. ... He sincerely did not want to hurt his wife or his children, but at the same time, he felt he deserved a life of happiness. ...
In Much Ado, a comedy, the war is over and the soldiers are returned having honoured their country and not lost many men ("of name", at least, i.e. no one of a high status, or importance). ... He kills his wife in an attempt to save their reputation, saying "naught I did in hate, but all in honour.... She is an honourable wife and accepts Othello's choice to kill her, saying, "[My sins] are loves I bear to you" (V.ii.40) - her only sins were out of love for her husband. ... No, I will speak as liberal as the north" - She stands up to her husband, valuing just...
Pontellier is punishing his wife for not being a more attentive mother, but he does so in a cruel and condescending manner. ... Edna notes that it felt good to wake up in a bed that had a "sweet country odor of laurel."" ... After resting in the country home, Edna felt like she had been asleep for many years. ... Chopin first describes this at Grand Isle when he constantly buys treats for both his wife and children. ...
Alvy identifies himself as nervous throughout the film, saying that his childhood was dominated by a roller-coaster because he was "a little nervous I think"; he dislikes the countryside because, he tells his second wife Robin while they argue in bed, "it makes me nervous". ... While at the intellectual party in New York with his second wife Robin Alvy was uncomfortable and bored, he does control the space, walking through the apartment the party is being held in and he is followed by a meandering, mobile camera. ... Whereas Robin, his second wife, despairs at the loss of privacy in the city -...
Jake asks Brett to go off with him to the country for bit: ""Couldn't we go off in the country for a while?"... But I couldn't live quietly in the country. ... He repeatedly proposes similar questions but does not make any observant or profound comments on his wife-to-be. ...
My first impression of Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Café was that it was a "woman's- novel. This was because the movie, which was more popular than the book, was advertised as a "chick flick-. To say the least, I was wrong. The novel poses many issues that face the people of the 1920's and 30's, and makes one think about what people have struggled through. The novel addresses the issue of racism before the time of Martin Luther King Jr. and the Civil Rights Movement. ...
This is a country where love turns to hate, where money never buys happiness. ... Endless parties filled with nameless people who travel from one coast to another, prohibition, flappers, country clubs and wealth are all exposed and shown in colorful detail. ...
