Money is the root of all things evil. When a person puts money before their beliefs and values a lot of things can go wrong. Delia and Missie May are the two women Hurston wanted you to see what money do to two different type if people, one self-made and one depended on money given. Delia was the woman that had to work hard for everything she wanted and have. She is not a person who let money define her, whereas you have, Missie May, a housewife and her husband gives her everything she wanted and needed. It’s Funny how Hurston depicted two different kinds of bad marriages. In “The Gilded Six-Bits” the wife cheats on the husband, whereas in “sweat” the husband cheats on the wife. In both stories, Hurston tested a Woman’s strength and weakness by showing your love, regret and hate in two different viewpoints.
Cheating is in everyone’s blood, but you have to have the will power not
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to. I hate when people say the men are the one that always cheat or it’s rare for a woman to cheat. If the individual don’t have the will power on their own, that person should not be married. If you do not truly love the person you are with then you are wasting that person relationship. Huston depicted that every relationship is not perfect, but the love they share determines the outcome of the relationship. Delia loved herself more and knew she didn’t have to put up with everything that Sykes put her through. Whereas Missie May love, her marriage and didn’t want to love it because of her wrong doings. Missie May was able to save her marriage when she had a baby that loved just like her husband. The regret stage is on one of the hardest stages. I person never regret something until they get caught in the act or need them in your time of need. For instance, take Missie May, She didn’t see the wrong doing in what she was doing until her husband watched in on her. Then she wanted to cry and feel bad, but she was not feeling back when she doing the act. She thought it was okay because he was going to give her money, but didn’t really feel bad about it until it was too late. But with Sykes and Delia it was a different way of things. Sykes didn’t regret anything he did to Delia until he was on his death bed. But nothing is worst when you don’t egret toy actions, because he you don’t truly regret what you did you will do it again when they are not around. The last stage is hate, can someone really forgive and get over the hate they have or will they let hate take over there actions. Joe should have known that Missie May valued money a little too much from the way they played around. Missie May liked when Joe threw the coins at her doorstep. So why would he get mad because she slept with a man that she thought had money for money. In some way that’s one of the reasons why he could get over the hate he once felt because he build up Otis to his wife. But Delia could not get over her hate she felt for her husband, Sykes, who put her through everything you could think of. She went through everything from getting beat on to being talked badly to and about from a man she wanted to spend forever with to being cheated one to being tortured. So when she had somewhat of a chance to get him back, she took the opportunity to get it. So she said her final goodbye as she watches him die. She let the hate take over the love she once had for her husband. A person goes through many different stages before they get to the forgiving stage.
They go through love, regret and hate. If the hate outweigh the love, then there is no coming back. When a person break that love bond that both partners once shared, it’s almost impossible to get back to where it once was. The love has to outweigh the hate that feels for that person. Also the Person has to really regret with they did and insure their partner that it will never happen again. From the looks of things Hurston only showed true forgiveness in one marriage and that was with Missie May and Joe. If it was not for the baby that Missie May had and the love outweighing the hate Joe once had for her, their Marriage could have not been saved. But then you have Sykes and Delia who could not get to that stage. Delia could not forgive and get over the hate she had for her husband so he sit and watch him die. Maybe she was just as wrong as her husband but she could not get sat and watch him die when she could have stopped it from happening. But she thought that he deserved to die right at that
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Life during the depression was hard, and money was the key to happiness. James and his family needed money but were always strapped for cash. A good example as to how money was such an important thing is mentioned in the book, a worker went into a dinner and asked for a beer and a cheese sandwich, he handed the waitress a dollar and she gave him but a dime in return, he asked if there is some mistake and she said "Oh no. Sandwich, fifty. Beer, forty. No mistake." "Funny, What's those?" in a rather sarcastic tone. "Why their my breasts, you fool! What'd you think they were?" He responded "Didn't know. Everything else is so high in here I thought they might be the cheeks of your ass.". This attitude was a common one, people were commonly in a bad mood. This is because money was short and it causes problems. People don't want to pay 90 cents for a beer and a sandwich and when they only have a dollar.
When Zora Hurston wrote this novel, she wanted to explain how a young women search for her own identity. This young woman would go through three relationships that took her to the end of the journey of a secure sense of independence. She wanted to find her own voice while in a relationship, but she also witnessed hate, pain, and love through the journey. When Logan Killicks came she witnessed the hate because he never connected physically or emotionally to her. Jody Starks, to what she assumed, as the ticket to freedom. What she did not know was the relationship came with control and pain. When she finally meets Tea Cake she was in love, but had to choose life over love in the end.
A husband is thought to be a money maker, a powerhouse, and a leader while a wife is thought to be a cook, a cleaner, and a follower in Gilded Six Bits. The reader recognizes Hurston's representation of gender stereotypes through the typical southern dialect between Missy and Joe, and joe's reaction to Missy after she is caught cheating. Hurston demands the reader to question power inequality in marriages during the 1900s. The Gilded six bits illuminates the haunting idea that female stereotypes to this day may not have completely
Wealth has both a good and a bad side. It can change the life of a person for the better or worse, and that is clearly shown in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby and Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God. Wealth affects the lives of the characters of Their Eyes Were Watching God very differently than the characters of The Great Gatsby. Janie’s wealth came about, mainly, from her failed relationships.
Ever since meeting Dan Cody, his fascination for wealth has increased dramatically. He even uses illegal unmoral methods to obtain hefty amounts of wealth to spend on buying a house with “ Marie Antoinette music-rooms, Restoration Salons, dressing rooms and poolrooms, and bath rooms with sunken baths.” (88) His wardrobe is just as sensational with “ shirts of sheer linen and thick silk and fine fennel.” (89) Gatsby buys such posh items to impress Daisy but to him, Daisy herself is a symbol of wealth.
In Zora Neal Hurston’s short story “Sweat” I can notice how Sykes abused Delia but yet she couldn’t do anything about it since she was scared of Sykes. Eventually karma got it’s way to Sykes and the snake eventually killed him even though Delia could have done something about it. Since a man shouldn’t treat his wife like this, then that is why I support the fact that her behavior was right when she let Sykes die.
It is not a means to all ends. In certain situations money is irrelevant to one’s pursuit of freedom. For example, when Milkman is denied entrance to the bar, no amount of money would change that outcome. Money would not give Milkman the freedom to enter the bar. It is simply not the right resource to deploy. Feather associates Milkman with his father and dissipates the unwelcomed guests: “‘He’s Macon Dead’s boy, ain’t he?’ ‘So what?’, ‘So get him outta here’” (57). Since Macon is an imperious landlord, everybody resents him as well as Milkman. Individuals must decide wisely if money is the appropriate resource to deploy. For Milkman only an improved family reputation would earn him the right to the bar. Similarly, in Corinthian’s strife to escape Macon’s control and live her own life, money plays an equally insignificant role. She struggles to find independence in Macon’s household so she wants to find a husband to restart her life. However, none of the suitable men are interested in Corinthians. She lacks the drive to “like the climbing, the acquiring, and the work to maintain status once it was achieved” (188). While she is financially comparable or superior to those young men, her complacency discourages the men from proposing marriage and freeing her from Not Doctor Street. She needs to invest in herself more to have the productive attitude that her bachelor men are looking for. In both of these cases money is not the means to
Zora Neale Hurston has been married and divorced twice, which assisted her in developing Joe and Missy May’s marriage. Hurston’s rocky marriage occurred just prior to the writing of “The Gilded Six-Bits” which portrays a marriage replete with infidelity and hatred. Missy May’s infidelity tests the strength of her marriage with Joe, which ultimately succeeds the trials and tribulations. Perhaps Hurston spared Joe and Missy May’s marriage to prove to herself that marriages can stand through infidelity, because neither of her marriages continued through the hardships. Hurston saw marriage as an important commitment capable of forgiveness and recommitment. Hurston creates Joe, as the character that forgives and forgets, possibly this is what she expected or desired in her own husbands. Hurston uses her own life experiences to depict her characters a...
The Great Gatsby set in the glistening and glittering world of wealth and glamour of 1920s Jazz Age in America. However, the story of the poor boy who tried to fulfill the American Dream of living a richer and fuller life ends in Gatsby’s demise. One of the reasons for the tragedy is the corrupting influence of greed on Gatsby. As soon as Gatsby starts to see money as means of transforming his fantasy of winning Daisy’s love into reality, his dream turns into illusion. However, other characters of the novel are also affected by greed. On closer inspection it turns out that almost every individual in the novel is covetous of something other people have. In this view, the meaning of greed in the novel may be varied The greed is universally seen as desire for material things. However, in recent studies the definition of “greed” has come to include sexual greed and greed as idolatry, understood as fascination with a deity or a certain image (Rosner 2007, p. 7). The extended definition of greed provides valuable framework for research on The Great Gatsby because the objects of characters’ desires can be material, such as money and possessions, or less tangible, such as love or relationship.
“The Gilded Six Bits” by Zora Neale Hurston centers on the views of capitalism and patriarchy. This short story is not only about love, betrayal, and reconciliation. “The Gilded Six Bits” conveys a deeper message about race, class status, power, and money. These messages all tie in together with the capitalistic-patriarchy that distorts Missie May and Joe marriage. Although Joe does not leave Missie May the reconciliation between the two is left unassured causing Joe to still have dominance over his wife Missie May.
In The Great Gatsby Gatsby acquires all of his wealth so that in his mind he will be good enough for Daisy. Daisy never disagrees with this assumption and also has a very wealthy husband, leading one to believe that money is as important to her as other aspects of her partners. This crass materialism is still quite present today, perhaps even more so than it was then. If you look at many of the current wealthy and successful people of today you’ll regularly see someone who hasn’t done anything to contribute to society or even their own personal fortune. This idea is even reinforced by news outlets, an author from CNN stated, “For a variety of reasons, men earn more money than women, it's a wise move to marry someone who can provide for you and your family.”(Wakeman). These types of statements only serve to fortify the belief that poor boys can’t marry rich girls.
This novel depicts greed on several occasions through out the novel. One example of this is when Gatsby is left twenty five thousand dollars by Dan Cody as a legacy, but from what one is led to believe Ella Kaye refused to let
Delia is at first introduced as a woman that has it all; a beautiful, rich, well established mother of two. She goes about her life accepting her place in the society of old New York. To me she was just another housewife that missed out on love. Because of this in my first reading I was drawn into the story of Charlotte Lovell. Charlotte Lovell's is a sad story. Wharton could not ...
Many women who were part of the middle classes were often not sent to school and so didn’t usually learn a skill that they could use to make a living. Consequently, as they were women and so were often not left much, if any, inheritance when their parents died, women found that they must. marry in order to have money and to keep their place in society. Charlotte takes advantage of her situation to marry purely for money. and not for love, this is what many women do and what society.
From dreams deferred to identity affirmed Lorraine Hansberry’s, “A Raisin in the Sun,” presents readers with many differing themes. The most prevalent and reoccurring theme is the effect money plays on society’s views of manhood and happiness. Readers are shown multiple characters with a diverse view on manhood. From Walter Lee with his matching societal views that a man should be able to provide whatever his family needs or wants to Lena whose views are a biased compilation of her late husband’s behavior and her own ideals, that a man should maintain his honor and protect his children’s dreams.