Emotional Abuse In The Silver Stars By Jeannette Walls

People go through particularly vulnerable situations where your weakness are being used against you. This might make you feel paranoid of being in a relationship with people. However, this is currently happening in both real life and to the Holladay sisters. In The Silver Stars, by Jeannette Walls, Jerry Maddox demonstrates this in several scenes in her novel. At this time, 1970s people aren’t remarkably educated about abuse nor its impacts on people, and so this begins a domino effect on individuals in a relationship. Emotional abuse is an example of unhealthy relationships. In the “Emotionally abusive” info text it states, “You may find yourself feeling confused about the relationship off balance or like you are ‘walking on eggshells’ all …show more content…

In the novel it states, ”I asked what you wanted, but I didn't tell you that I was going to give you what you wanted.” (130). In this scene Maddox took the chance to take control of this situation by having choose the Pringles and Pepsi he wanted to her to have, when she clearly wants her Cheetos and Orange soda. The impact of emotional abuse is causing unhealthy relationships with other individuals. What makes emotional abuse a negative thing, is the the person is very controlling and you can not think without them because they are constantly telling you what to think. It makes them almost inhuman when it comes to how they may be feeling. It will get tiring to always have to wait to be told what's right and wrong. They try to apologize for their bad behavior and you know it's wrong but still accept it because they make it seem as not as bad or big deal. The feeling you may get is an overall pressure to do what they say, and that's not a feeling you should be getting. Not to mention by calling you rude things it lowers self esteem, making you believe you deserve to be treated that way. This affects people on the long run, by having their self-esteem be low, this might