The Glass Menagerie Paper

I decided to go with doing a character analysis for my paper.  The character I chose is Amanda because I feel that she is the most interesting.  Although she is extremely annoying, she is that way for a reason.  I feel that she is the way she is because she lived her teenage years being wanted by everyone, mostly men, and in her older years she becomes abandoned by her husband and left on her own to raise two children.  Obviously no women would be happy about something like this happening. I think this explains why she is so pushy and annoying with her son.  She wants him to be successful and take care of her and her daughter.  She also would like for him to find his sister a nice gentlemen to take care of her.  Overall, she is annoying simply because she wants the best for her children but in the end she pushes her son away and ends up alone with laura. 

The Glass Menagerie

We are currently watching The Glass Menagerie in class.  I actually kind of like this movie even though it is a little boring.  It is about a mother living in an apartment with her two adult chidren. She has one son and one daughter.  The mother is extremely annoying and is always nagging about something.  The son seems miserble and is trying to find anyway to get away from his mother.  The daughter is somewhat handicap but very sweet. In the movie, the mother wants her son to find a man for his sister.  He eventually does this and they have the man over for dinner.  The man and the daughter have somewhat of a romamtic moment when they kiss.  However, it turned out the man was engaged to be married.  I'm excited to find out what happens next!

A Good Man is Hard to Find

In this story there was a lot going on and it was a little difficult to follow.  I feel like I say that about all of the story's we read but it is true.  I usually do not completely understand the story's until our class discussions.  In this story, a family decides to go on a vacation and the crazy grandma is completely agianst it and nags the entire time.  On the way to there destination, the grandma tells everyone she knows about an interesting place they should visit on the way there.  Eventually they discover they are going the wrong way and this place the grandmother spoke of was actually in a different state.  In the end, the whole familyis murdered. Very intense ending.  However, throughout the story the grandmother is very fake. in the end, when she knows her life is coming to an end, she changes.

Hills Like White Elephants

This story was very short and interesting.  I enjoyed reading it and trying to interpret what the man and woman were referring to as the "operation."  In class we came to the conclusion that the opereation was actually an abortion the woman was plannning to have.  In the story, the man and woman sit at a train station and drank alcohol the whole time.  They also discuss the "operation." On one side of the train station  the land is dry and plain with hills, while on the other side the land is green with trees and mountains.  We discussed in class that the two different sides represent life and death.  We also discussed  that the man is older than the woman considering that is the story he refers to her as a "girl." This could be the reason they want to go through with an abortion. Overall, the story was very interesting to read.