Eight months had gone by and a lot had changed at Holby City Hospital, for Ric and for Serena. Life had moved forward, times had moved forward and not necessarily for the better in some circles. There lay devastating news in that Edward did not survive his transplant operation, his body went into rejection and shut down completely. This news did not upset Serena as such, it gave her a realisation to the value of life, and the news had devastated Eleanor more than anything that her Mother’s ordeal.
Eleanor managed to hold things together a lot more differently to Serena did other her mother’s death. Furthermore, Edward's death, which happened only three weeks after Serena's rehabs stint managed to fix the broken holes in the relationship between
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Serena and Ric also spent a lot of time in marriage counselling, a gruelling process in which they spoke of Adrienne's death, Serena's need to constantly block her emotions, her infidelity, her rape. It took a lot of out her mentally, to explain to Ric, why and how she could betray him in such way. To explain how she needed to run away to save her sanity and how in running it did her more damage than good, to explore that day in detail the hurt and pain she felt from her rape; her disgust in herself. The knowing that she let the man she loved down – it was all ever so tough. Ric had to sit through her emotions, and he had to explain how it was hard on him too, watching the woman he loved pushing him away, and shut down. To explore how knowing his wife slept with another man, when all he was trying to do was protect her, it made him feel just as worthless, it had felt bad enough knowing he couldn’t bring her back from the darkness of her mother’s death, her rape. Therefore, to discover the affair, it did break him and he had to let her know how much it hurt him
It was not only her fault, but Dev as well, since he led her on into falling in love with him. She could try to get to know him and ask him questions. The main character is not trying to get to know his wife at all. Even if he does not have any feelings for her, he could try to learn to love her. It feels like he does not want to try to and needs someone to show him that his wife is very important to him.
His wife’s old friend, Robert’s, wife had died so he came to stay the night before visiting her relatives. When the narrator’s wife tries explaining Robert’s situation, he say’s things like, “Right then my wife filled me in with more detail than I cared to know.” While his wife is good at communicating, the narrator just doesn’t care. Towards the end of the story, another example of his selfishness is when he says, “My wife opened up her eyes and gazed at us. She sat up on the sofa, her robe hanging open. She said, ‘What are you doing? Tell me, I want to know.’ I didn't answer her.” Subsequently, his comment displays his lack of respect towards her and he literally ignores what she asks him.
"The man is torn between two spaces, each inhabited by a woman. The inside beckons with its comfortable domesticity; the outside calls the promise of a strange and forbidden passion." The fact that the husband's struggle to commit to the murder of his wife occurs on open and calm water indicates that the situation can go either way. He is in the middle of his two choices emotionally and physically, being in between the city and his home. The husband begins to paddle with force and anxiousness to the land where he receives his desired encounter with a strange and forbidden passion, just not with the woman of which he thought.
against him and that little can bring him joy. He had lost his innocence, and
have opened the door for his anger, but he chose to be intimate with his wife. At the closing of
As a little girl, she first found her life’s calling when she took care of her brother David after an accident. He had been helping to build a barn when he flipped and fell to the ground. Doctors had come to help, but he did not get any better. Eleven year-old Clara became David's nurse, administering his medicine and even applying and removing leeches when the doctors suggested it might help. Clara stayed home from school for two years to take care of her brothe...
In the story Serena by Ron Rash, he sets the story in the state of North Carolina within mountains. The main characters he creates are Serena Pemberton who is the main character, George Pemberton who is Serena’s husband, Rachel Harmon, and Jacob Harmon who is Rachel’s son. Throughout the book, Serena and her husband George have many struggles such as marriage problems and killing people who they see as a threat or competition to them. They also have to deal with the fact that Racheal was impregnated by George; they both share a son Jacob. Within the whole conflict of the book, the two characters that really stand out as opposites are Serena and Rachel. When it comes to Serena she expresses evilness, hatefulness, mysteriousness, and she is very manipulative. With Rachel, she shows kindness, compassion, and she is very down to earth. When it comes to similarities, both of these characters express pride and confidence.
, how it drowns to his attention how much he had longed for his sister/future wife to be. Yet he never felt so lonely whilst within her company. Whether it was the fact that the burning desire driven him away. Or just his sheer highly intelligent curiosity got in the way of settling for second best.
Yunior starts to become conscious of “what a f*cking chickensh*t coward [he is] and admits to be “astounded by the depths of [his] mendacity” (14). Yunior realizes that he is selfish and inconsiderate towards the feelings of other women. Yunior is shocked of himself and his tendency to lie. He notices that his lying and cheating ways can really hurt women and he feels bad about himself. After a long time of suffering, the narrator finally gains a true understanding of his wrongdoings. The protagonist is filled with regret with the way he treats women and the fact that his cheating ways gets him nowhere. He confesses the truth that his ex “ did the right thing” by leaving him (14). Yunior starts to register that he is unable to ever get over his ex fiance and he regrets cheating on her. He is saying that he does not deserve her because all that he ever gave her were lies and deceit. She is fortunate enough to be able to escape the pain and hurt that he brought along with him. This creates the central idea that cheaters are the ones who really play themselves. The narrator expected that his cheating manner will be beneficial to him, but it is like a slap to the face. Cheating does not get you anywhere in life and only brings suffering in the end. He now understands that when you do something bad, bad things will come back to you. What goes around comes back around. Achieving a lasting relationship comes
The narrator also feels intimidated by his wife?s relationship with the blind man. When he is telling of her friendship with Robert h...
The husband was also selfish in his actions. With good intentions, the wife had planned a surprise for him, but he was not pleased. “Instead, he was hotly embarrassed, and indignant at his wife for embarrassing him” (13). When the narrator describes the husband at the beginning, he has a “self-satisfied face” (3). Embarrassment is a result of feeling self-conscious. Because of his self-conscious nature, he assesses first how the few people in the restaurant will view him because of his wife’s actions. He does not prioritize appreciation for his wife’s effort and care, but rather sees the worst in her misguided actions. The husband’s selfishness causes him to be prideful, which in turn causes him to destroy his relationship with his wife through his actions.
To begin with, the narrator husband name is John, who shows male dominance early in the story as he picked the house they stayed in and the room he kept his wife in, even though his wife felt uneasy about the house. He is also her doctor and orders her to do nothing but rest; thinking she is just fine. John is the antagonist because he is trying to control
...hung from the church’s walls john has ended the pain for his family and John was hung. All the event that occurred showed that John’s action effect the people around him in a positive and negative way, having cheating on his wife had an major effect on his wife and there relationship he completely took away all the trust she had for him, also form being a very selfish man and only caring for himself to a man who gave him life for his wife so that she can live a easier life.
He believes that pain and tragedy is part of life and should be included in the story. The narrator did not agree with him yet she still kept rewriting the story to please her father. My father and I did not see eye to eye on a lot of things. We used to constantly disagree on everything but I still wanted his approval on the decisions I made. “In your own life, too, you have to look it in the face” (1100), the narrator’s
... explaining the cause of his alienation, which he hardly trust himself to think of. It would have taken him years to have come to a direct explanation on the point. In the harassed state of his mind, he could not have done much other than what he did. His conduct does not contradict what he says when he sees her funeral,