ENGL 1020 25 September 2014 Analysis of the Character Norma Jean Bobbie Ann Mason’s “Shiloh” is part of a collection of short stories named Shiloh and Other Stories‚ which received the 1983 “Ernest Hemingway Award.” Mason was born in 1940 in a small town in western Kentucky where many of her stories take place. Norma Jean‚ one of the main characters in “Shiloh‚” is an example of the sort of rural character Mason often writes about. Norma Jean is an immature‚ but ambitious person who is trapped in
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Norma Jean is in constant change throughout history. At first she is lifting weights while watching Leroy just sitting. Both are at the age of 34 years. She works in a drugstore selling comesticos‚ which currently is the main source of income of the couple. One of the factors that puts even more as the dominant role of marriage. Leroy is a truck driver who joined desability after an accident que injured his left hip and leg. As a consequence‚ he has spent much time at home engaging with craft kits
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By focusing on the relationship involving Norma Jean and Leroy‚ Mason is able to expose the reader to the rise of feminism and support for women’s labor unions that defined the lives of most women in southern society during the twentieth century. Mason echoes this movement when Leroy asks “Is this one of those women’s lib things?” (714). When Leroy refers to ‘lib‚’ he is referring to the freedom from limits or thoughts on behavior that served as the centerpiece for the growing political movements
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the name Norma Jean. She wanted to be an actress and her manager and Monroe wanted to changed her name. She almost changed her name to Jean Adair. Norma jeans last name on her birth certificate was misspelled from her mother’s second husband. When monroe lived in foster care when she was younger she was sexualy abused by 2 men. In 1942 monroe got a job in west virginia. She grew up with a single mother. She never knew her dad was. She died at the age 36 with a drug overdose. When Norma Jean was a
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Shiloh analysis Tomorrow Never Comes “Shiloh‚” by Bobby Ann Mason is a disheartening story that makes marriage seem like an awful commitment to get into at an early age because one never knows what life is going to throw at you. Leroy is truck driver who has been put out of his job after a truck driving incident and returns home to reunite with his wife Norma Jean . Norma has grown to living without Leroy and soon discovers she does not enjoy his constant company. Eventually Norma wants to
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“Shiloh” Throughout the short story “Shiloh” by Bobbie Ann Mason the reader gets a sense of many different relationship problems. Leroy is a truck driver and is rarely home. He is injured when his truck jackknifes and he is forced to get a steel pin in his hip. This does not only hinder his life but his wife‚ Norma Jean‚ now must alter her lifestyle. They have grown accustom to never being together and this drastic change is forced upon them it puts a strain on their relationship. Norma Jean’s
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doesn’t make people what or who they are‚ but how they are raised with morals and values makes the person who they become. Everyone in the world matters‚ not because of what they do‚ but by simply who they are. In her story “Being Country” Bobby Ann Mason writes about how it’s like to grow up country. The author describes how her mom uses the land to its full potential‚ including home grown food and all homemade clothes. Life on the farm was different than life of the town folk in many ways. For
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Character sketch for Shiloh Character Sketch In Bobbie Ann Mason’s story "Shiloh" she presents the character of Norma Jean as having a strong personality but an emptiness deep within. Norma Jean is presented as a strong character on the outside in the opening of the story. "She lifts three-pound dumbbells to warm-up‚ the progresses to a twenty-pound barbell."(Mason p. 46). However as the story progresses she exhibits the emptiness which she feels. "One day Leroy arrives home
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Unhappily Married in Fiction The Chrysanthemums by John Steinbeck and Shiloh by Bobbie Ann Mason have many similar components with slight differences. The point of view in Shiloh is told by third person limited‚ and in Chrysanthemums it is also third person (mostly Elisa’s view.) The Chrysanthemums is a story about a wife named Elisa Allen who is unhappy with her life and marriage. Similarly‚ in Shiloh the main character’s name is Norma Jean Motif‚ and she is also unhappy with her marriage. These stories
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It’s clear that Norma Jean has changed in ways that make it very difficult for her to stay with Leroy. If you were a marriage counselor‚ and Norma Jean and Leroy came to you for help‚ what would you suggest to them? Would you suggest they stay together? Do you think this relationship should be saved? Write your journal entry referencing the story. Be sure to write a minimum of 400 words. If I were Norma Jean and Leroy’s marriage counselor I would probably suggest for them to spend some time apart
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