What do you do, feel, or even act like when your life is changed from one event maybe not in your life, but in someone else's? Well that's what happens to Norma Jean Moffitt in the story "Shiloh" by Bobbie Ann Mason. Norma Jean's husband was the kind of husband who was never home, but at random moments here and there, when he was passing by from trips driving his truck. She was content with this, well in reality she grew to having absolutely no problems with his line of work, until the day came when he couldn"t do his job anymore. Leroy Moffitt injured his leg in a highway accident and was home ever since he was unable to drive his tractor-trailer. These two people now stuck in one home, married, and to Norma Jean, stuck together under one roof. After awhile Norma Jean realizes she can"t take him being home. She also realizes that she really doesn"t know who her husband is or even was. And in the end does Norma Jean stand at the brink of her freedom, or her own death? Norma Jean I think is standing on the edge of that cliff staring at her death. Not maybe because she wants to die, but knowing that she has nothing more to look forward, but the reality of the end. .
Norma Jean was a woman who was content with her life, she was content with her mother still having a large say in how she thought and what she did. She liked the idea her husband wasn"t around, and when that all changed, she changed, Norma Jean changed. The thought of her mother knowing she smoked, she couldn"t have that. So when her mother Mabel finds out, she mentions the one thing that would cause a reaction out of Norma Jean. The memories of the lost child as an infant. The sad feelings brought back, all to pay her back for seeing her smoking. Then you have the husband, what does he mean to her now? Is there love, lust, hate, and disdain? It makes you wonder though, the ideas that are running through the mind of Norma Jeans how she really feels of her husband.
This skirmish was the start of the Battle of Shiloh. ... They made a strong resistance to their right, near the Shiloh Church. ... Just east of the Shiloh Church was an area the Confederates named, "The Hornet's Nest." ... The bloodshed and gore that occurred at Shiloh was unprecedented. ... As afternoon approached, the Confederates found themselves as far back as the Shiloh Church. ...
ColorSet-1ColorPos-1StyleSet-1StylePos-1Battle of Shiloh The Battle of Shiloh was one of bloodiest battles of the Civil War. ... Before the Battle of Shiloh was fought, a lot of important things happened which made the battle very important. ... Meanwhile at the Union camp at Shiloh, the Federal troops spent a day drilling and merry-making. ... However, stiff resistance on the Federal right entangled Johnston's brigades in a savage fight around Shiloh Church. ... Shiloh's awesome toll of 23,746 men killed, wounded, or missing brought a shocking realization to both side...
We have examples of the above situations in the stories of "Shiloh" by Bobbie Ann Mason and "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber" by Ernest Hemingway. ... In the short story "Shiloh", the wife says "I"ll go to Shiloh with you if you"ll stop staring at me." ... In "Shiloh", it's more about being independent. ... In conclusion, as I used the stories of "Shiloh" and "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber", there are similarities and differences between both authors. ...
Union Victory at Shiloh Tactics, Planning, and Attack Formations of the Shiloh Campaign The battle of Shiloh was one of the bloodiest fought in the western theater. ... The battle of Shiloh dashed all southern hopes of recovering west and middle Tennessee. ... He was, unfortunately for the Confederates, delayed by high waters, and arrived at Memphis three days after the battle of Shiloh.2 Also, the attack formations of the Confederate side bore too much on the Federal left. ... The first shot at the battle of Shiloh rang out at 0514 hours. ... The battle of Shiloh was decisive. ...
Analysis of "Shiloh" in Bobbie Ann Masson's "Shiloh" In Bobbie Ann Mason's story "Shiloh" she presents Norma Jean as a strong willed person but having emptiness within. ... She feels overwhelmed when her mother starts talking about Leroy and Norma Jean taking a trip to Shiloh. ...
Short Story Analysis In Bobbie Ann Masons, "Shiloh", a woman challenged the culture of masculinity. ... Another thing is how the mother is holding on to the past by wanting the couple to go to Shiloh and have a second honeymoon because she realizes that the marriage is not well. ... The story's title is appropriate because Shiloh is the influence in the story that changes everything. The more the mother suggests the trip to Shiloh, the more the couple dreads it. ... In Cooke's critique, he says, "Norma Jean walks quickly through the cemetery at Shiloh, pursued by the limping Ler...
A comparison of "Shiloh" and "Cathedral" The two couples in the stories "Shiloh" and "Cathedral" both experience a renaissance of their understanding of one another and of themselves. ... His wife has poured out her heart to someone else each time she sent him those tapes, the same way that Leroy in "Shiloh" poured out his soul to hitchhikers who passed his way. ... In "Shiloh", Leroy's accident that has him homebound and with lots of free time on his hand allowed him to see how far apart he and Norma Jean have grown. ... She was still that scared eighteen year old under her mother...
Bobbie Ann Mason's Shiloh is the definition of a normal short story, with its easy to follow plot as well as clear beginning and end. ... Its eccentricity does not take away from The Yellow Wallpaper it gives it added angles to read it from whereas Shiloh does not have that added depth. ... Nothing is out in the open and clear like it is in Shiloh, but instead everything is shrouded behind that wallpaper. ... With The Yellow Wallpaper and Shiloh the beginnings and endings fall into line with each other in that each woman has become free. ... Shiloh is very straightforward from beginning ...
After having thoroughly searched the Norton Introduction to Literature for approximately thirty extremely long minutes I came across an intriguing little story entitled "Shiloh" by Bobbie Ann Mason. ... Mabel insists throughout the entire story that the couple must visit the historic battle site a Shiloh, as she did with her husband many years ago. ... Shiloh is the place where all the tension and suspense that has been building up throughout the entire story converges together. ...
Do not dwell on the past In Shiloh, by Bobbie Ann Mason, we see the beginning of an end to a marriage of Leroy and Norma Jean Moffitt. ... There are two main settings where the story takes place, Leroy and Norma Jean's hometown in Kentucky and the battleground of Shiloh. ... The battlefield, cemetery and bullet-riddled log cabin that Leroy and Norma Jean visit at Shiloh symbolize the past, present and the future of the relationship. ... The battlefield of Shiloh identifies with Leroy, an unchanging area marked by its history. ...
