'Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?'
In 50 - 75 words, identify each of the following by author, title, and context, and explain what the lines mean.
1. Everything about her had two sides to it, one for home and one for anywhere that was not home...."
The first quote is from “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?”, written by Joyce Carol Oates. It is in reference to Connie, who is a teenager. She is no longer a girl, yet she is not a woman. She would leave home she looking one way and arrive at her destination another way.
2. She would have been a good woman . . . if it had been someone there to shoot her every minute of her life."
The second quote is from “A Good Man Is Hard to Find” by Flannery O’Connor. This quote was referring to the grandmother. The grandmother said all the good things only because she was being held at gunpoint. She became that good woman, the nice person, only when held at gunpoint. She was not like that at the beginning of the story.
A critic has pointed out that the effect of the setting in “A Jury of Her Peers” is “a tremendous sense of isolation.” Write an essay …show more content…
They had found the empty bird cage inside with a broken door on it. At first it is not something that anyone focuses on, although odd. It was when the women found the dead bird with its neck broken. They found that Minnie was going to bury the bird in a beautiful box. It is in seeing that beautiful box that you know that she had to care for the bird. It was Mrs. Hale staring at the bird, knowing that bird meant so much to Minnie, that she realized how lonely it must have been. “I wonder how it would seem… never to have had any children around.” (pg 212) In the times the story was written about, women had a role to fill. It was expected of women to get married, take care of their husband and home, and have children. That bird filled a role in Minnie’s life, showing just how lonely and isolated she
1. Everything about her had two sides to it, one for home and one for anywhere that was not home...."
The first quote is from “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?”, written by Joyce Carol Oates. It is in reference to Connie, who is a teenager. She is no longer a girl, yet she is not a woman. She would leave home she looking one way and arrive at her destination another way.
2. She would have been a good woman . . . if it had been someone there to shoot her every minute of her life."
The second quote is from “A Good Man Is Hard to Find” by Flannery O’Connor. This quote was referring to the grandmother. The grandmother said all the good things only because she was being held at gunpoint. She became that good woman, the nice person, only when held at gunpoint. She was not like that at the beginning of the story.
A critic has pointed out that the effect of the setting in “A Jury of Her Peers” is “a tremendous sense of isolation.” Write an essay …show more content…
They had found the empty bird cage inside with a broken door on it. At first it is not something that anyone focuses on, although odd. It was when the women found the dead bird with its neck broken. They found that Minnie was going to bury the bird in a beautiful box. It is in seeing that beautiful box that you know that she had to care for the bird. It was Mrs. Hale staring at the bird, knowing that bird meant so much to Minnie, that she realized how lonely it must have been. “I wonder how it would seem… never to have had any children around.” (pg 212) In the times the story was written about, women had a role to fill. It was expected of women to get married, take care of their husband and home, and have children. That bird filled a role in Minnie’s life, showing just how lonely and isolated she