Functionalist Perspective In Road End

Jacobs talks about her family as being an important element in her life; for instance, she describes her father’s determination to want to buy off her children, while she describes

Meg Jay talks about a client named Emma that is struggling with her identity and feels alone because she does not have a family. Families matter because they provide a sense of security and belonging, without a family people feel lost and unimportant. Not being part of a family can have negative implications on a person’s health such as depression. Having a family to go to can reduce the stress we face in relationships, school, and work. Families are important because they provide an unconditional love that is not found in other relationships.

     Emotional support also plays an important role of Emily’s well being. The idea mother suppose to care, support, and value their children needs. Emily needed this nourishment. She needed her mother to smile at her in order for her to feel a connection with the person that she supposed to be able to depend on. Emily’s mother did not know how to communicate with Emily. The mother-daughter relationship has an element of coldness, it lacks warmth. “There were years she did not want me to touch her” (Olsen 262). Emily’s mother inability to interact with her, leaves Emily unloved and in return, she shall not express any love toward her mother. Emily’s mother feels her “wisdom came too late” (Olsen 262). With this thought in mind, Emily’s mother shall never show communication or love to Emily, therefore the relationship shall continue to be doomed.

Although the mother may have been trying to help Emily, the mother should have tried to take care of Emily better instead of sending her off as the only solution. One of the other effects of her mother’s unavoidable neglect is Emily’s failure to be on the same pace as her peers in class. She is at a state of illiteracy that is uncommon for her age at the time which may be a result from staying at home instead of going to class to take care of the household. In addition to the mother’s neglect, having a sister who was the ideal poster child may have caused self confidence problems as she grew older being the odd one out in the family. Emily’s mother should have made sure she was able to take care of Emily first before deciding to give birth to another child. What the mother thought would be the best option for Emily had a more clear negative effect on Emily after she grew older still not having any clear direction in her life.

In the conclusion of the story, the woman is saved from the evil clutches of Bluebeard by her sister and brothers. Bluebeard is then murdered and his wife becomes heiress to his fortune. She marries a man of her liking and tries to forget her frightful experience with Bluebeard. Due to the author's connotation of the characters, it is possible that some readers may percieve Bluebeard's wife as being an ungrateful opportunist who did not value Bluebeard's generosity, love, and trust. Ultimately, however, her actions in this story prove to be completely reasonable: No human of our age should be so terrible as to demand the impossible out of another

The plot or sequence of events are explained very well in this story. Emily is the first of 5 children who seems to experience the most heartache out of the other children.

Throughout the story, there is no mention of a mother, so this leads me to believe that the only parental figure she had was her father, Mr. Grierson. He is a single father who was overprotective of his daughter, and felt no one was good enough for her. Mr. Grierson appears to have been strict which took a toll on her love life during her father’s life time. One of the citizen still recalls “all the young men her father had driven away” (Faulkner 500). It was not until after her father’s death when she meets Homer Barron. Homer ends up becoming an important individual to her. Lastly, we have our main character, Emily, who never had anyone besides her father. Her two main tragedies were “her father’s death and a short time after her

Emily comes from a family with high expectations of her a sort of “hereditary obligation” (30). Emily has been mentally manipulated by her as so indicated in the line of the story “we did not say she was crazy then we believed she had to do that we remember all the young men her father had driven away” (32). There is already proof of mental illness in the family “remembering how old lady Wyatt, her great aunt, had gone completely crazy last” (32).

Being away from her family and friends in Alabama, Emily takes out her frustration of her new environment on her family(100). Many flaws exist within this family;however, the family still seeks comfort in one another.

The Structural functional theory is focused on the gender roles of a family. The female is the homemaker

According to Herbert Spencer, the family performs functions which are necessary for the society, as a whole, to operate smoothly with little or no

If I were to be asked "why are you in Engineering?" , I would likely not say to you that it is because I am a CIS gender male. I might tell you that it is because I am interested in a more math and science-based education, I want to make money or something along those lines. However, the faculty of engineering has a lot of gendered politics that are deep rooted in the hierarchal aspect of hegemonic masculinity and the subordination of woman.

The story brings to the forefront on how parents need to anticipate the family needs and take proactive steps to ensure healthy family dynamics during any stressful or critical situation. A family that has functional dynamics has the ability to offer support, concern and love to each other when a chronic conflict or

Emily’s upbringing is plagued with difficulties. She is the first-born of a young mother and the eldest of five brothers and sisters. As a baby, she is

Q : 1 What is your evaluation of Immelt’s new organic growth strategy? Why change GE’s existing successful strategy? Is it reasonable to expect that a $125 billion global giant can significantly and consistently outperform the underlying economic growth rate?