So Much Water so Close to Home

Marriage is a full-time job on its own and people should communicate with each other in order to have a healthy marriage for them to love and appreciate each other so they can grow old together. Most of us know by now that the fairy tale happily ever after stories are full of holes. Carver emphasizes that when there is no communication in the marriage the wife starts to feel unhappy and frustrated with him. The wife’s attitude with her husband suggests that the marriage doesn’t seem to be working for her. Carver states, “My wife finally took her eyes off the blind man and looked at me. I had the feeling she didn’t like what she saw. I shrugged (38). ” There was unhappiness in the marriage and the narrator and his wife didn’t seem to get along. In other words the

When two people are tied together by their vows, it is each of their responsibility to fulfill the happiness of one another, and if one cannot then they should not expect the same in return. Sinclair Ross’s short story, “The Painted Door”, reveals the growing unhappiness of a farmer’s wife, Ann, who feels alone as her husband John leaves home to help his father in the harsh conditions of the storm. Ann seeks comfort and companionship with another man after 7 years of feeling neglected and unhappy with her husband. The responsibility for Ann’s infidelity, lays not only on Anne but John himself.

Despite revealing the inequality in society for women, Margaret tries to put an end to the inequality between men and women by describing marriages where both partners are mutually respected. For example, she feels that the ideal marriage is “one of mutual esteem, mutual dependence. Their talk is of business, their affection shows itself by practical kindness” (739). Fuller believes that “mutual esteem” and “mutual dependence” lead to a relationship of equality between a man and woman. She also believes that the couple must not only have mutuality but “affection” in order to maintain equality. In addition, she feels marriages of mutuality and mutuality and affection “meet mind to mind, and a mutual trust is excited, which can buckler them against a million” (742). The author uses this passage to show that

While Mason’s story contained all of these elements, the problems experienced by both Shelby and Georgeann can be easily transferable to other marriages where an imbalance of authority exists. Shelby possessed the upper hand in his relationship with Georgeann. Although the theme of

Claire almost a perfect woman, thin in the extreme, with small features and fair skin that the woman does not have who is in this village. The people seem to be rejecting her, cause the female finds the ugly side of them by contrast with Claire, in addition, men always would never lose their passion to talk about how amazing Claire is. In fact, Claire did not live in the village, she lives on a hillside that can make out Afra's house, and she would spend a half day to buy some living articles and food in the town by every Thursday. A number of a stronger visit this village who is perfect as Claire or even more rich since Claire comes here. Then the people slowly get used to the house fresh face and try to make money from them, for example, people build a tour route, more like hunting. Claire becomes more mysterious by that rich guy. The people start to create a story for Claire and most of the people thought and believe that she is come from an old, mysterious and noble family that has the power to control all the world. So they are fear of talking to Claire expect Afra, actually, Afra was fear too at first but she is so interesting about the outside world and she always thought Claire may know about her sister by

What does it mean to be a woman? In "So Much Water, So Close to Home", the narrator Claire is portrayed as an average woman. She has a hard working husband and a young son. All of the women in the story, excluding the dead one, are shown as very compassionate people. They are sensitive and caring to the needs of other people, even to those they do not personally know. When Claire's husband Stuart returns home from his annual fishing trip, he tells her about how he and his friends found the woman's body in the river. Not before having a cold beer, sex with Claire, and a good night's sleep, however. Claire cannot comprehend how in the world her husband could have done this. The fact that Stuart had found a body and waited several days to report it is bad enough, but for him to come home and carry on as if it had never happened is unimaginable to Claire. She even considers the possibility that it was her husband who raped and killed the innocent young woman. She later realizes, however, that her husband did not commit that particular crime. Claire thinks that her husband's inaction was a crime in itself. Claire sees this inability

To illustrate, when Catherine’s brother James relates Isabella’s duplicity and their broken engagement, her initial grief gives way to a forceful expression of disbelief that there could be “such inconstancy and fickleness, and everything that is bad in the world” (Austen 140). By consciously acknowledging the disingenuous nature of a materialistic society, Catherine asserts her integrity and independence, for even though Catherine is “hurt and grieved” that she is “to never hear from [Isabella], perhaps never to see her again, [she] [does] not feel so very, very much afflicted as one would have thought” (Austen 142). Additionally, in this experience Catherine also gains insight into requisites such as “consequence and fortune” (Austen 143) that must be considered and evaluated before any wedding proposal. Though unromantic, considerations of financial and social standing were the foundation of marriage. In being reminded of the rigid social traditions, Catherine becomes more rooted in the immediate situation and begins to consider the realistic uncertainties surrounding her own chances of marriage.

While most people view marriage as the beginning of a great life ahead of them, Carver deemed it the end of it. Marriage brings upon

Comparison Paper Mothers impact their kids personal lives. They can play both significant roles or minor ones. Our mom’s influence our decisions by their opinions. Whether we know it or not, our moms play a significant role in the way we feel about ourselves. This theme is continually shown throughout many different works.

    In the opening sequence of the film, the viewer is immediately presented with an image of marriage as entirely contractual: "Today he married me to a man I've not yet met." The protagonist, although she has already been established as strong-willed and non-conforming, is accepting but not altogether optimistic about the arrangement. The viewer also learns that she

George and Simon are inseparable friends, until one day a woman enters the picture. As Simon’s life of playing the role of bachelor ends, George is left with feelings of Simon’s demise as a full man. Upon their reunion, after many years of living their lives separately, George can’t comprehend Simon’s happiness. Throughout their visit, George finds Simon has succumbed to what married life inevitably brings, loss of one’s identity. Simon couldn’t possibly be as happy as he appears, George assumes. He looks around at his wife, his family and his home. This, to George, is a man who once had intelligence and direction but is now merely an empty shell, an out of shape, enslaved empty shell of a man. It is clear that George, like many men, find marriage an end to their individuality. Largely, they do not promote and encourage their friends to propose. Committing to a woman, settling down, should not be seen as bad news in the eyes of one’s male friends. This fear can be seen in females as well, but predominantly men will shy away first from taking the big step of marriage. The idea that one cannot remain a whole person while committing to another is simply an excuse

“So Much Water So Close to Home” (1980’s) is a short story produced by Raymond Carver set in the 1980s United States of America and inspired by the societal problems of the time, where the narrator’s husband decides to go camping with his colleagues for the duration of a weekend into the mountains and unintentionally discover the corpse of a deceased woman floating in a nearby river. The group refuses to alert the local authorities until the adventure has finished due to claiming fatigue from an abundant amount of traveling on foot and as a result cause several family complications once they return. The film Jindabyne (2006) directed by Ray Lawrence is a 21st-century adaptation of the hypotext “So Much Water So Close to Home”. This motion picture

The concept of marriage varies from person to person, and changes over time. Sometimes, marriage is something that is expected of all women, even if it holds them back from accomplishing their own dreams. Some see it as something that holds a women back, rather than a happy union. Through the characters of Nathalie and Louise, Kate Chopin shows how marriage is restrictive as neither character can ever get everything they want.

In the story of Carver’s “What We Talk About When We Talk about Love”, the author can been seen to tackle a distortion of romantic love, which conventionally perpetuated by love stories and fairy tales. This story challenges the convention of how a love story is being told where usually it ends happily. This allows the author, Carver, to present the reader with his or her own choice to interpret the meaning of true love through the story’s characters: Mel, Terri, Nick (as the narrator) and Laura as they talk about the meaning of love while they are drinking. Each of these characters has their own ideas of what love is. Terri seems to be approval of Ed’s, her abusive ex-lover violent jealousy as a sign of love, while Mel, her husband disagrees with her. Mel, speaks the most of the dialogues in the story can be inferred to be still learning the meaning of love. Through his story of the old couple, the readers may think that love can be eternal. However, Mel also contradicts this virtue by expressing his desire to kill his first wife whom he loved more than life before. As for the narrator, his love to Laura can be seen as a steady, drama free and uncomplicated love shown by his affections towards his newly-wed wife through kisses, smiles and touches. He also mentions, “In addition to being in love, we like each other and enjoy one another 's company. She 's easy to be with.” This contradicts with Mel and Terri’s idea of love which is rarely easy. Laura, the narrator’s wife

The type of marriages in the seventeenth century is seen through the novel persuasion and readers can see how it is like through it. Marriage plays a strong role in Austen’s novel. She reflects the change that occur in her society where marriage was all about family statues and finance, but the romantics change the view from focusing on class to focusing on passion and sensibility. There are two types marriages in the novel austen makes it clear that the characters who have it, have a good marriage. Equality in marriage and happiness in marriage in austen’s opinion are the keys to have a good marriage and the characters she put in reflect them. For example, the crofts , Mr. and Mrs. musgrove and Captain and Mrs. harville meet Austen’s qualification on a good marriage. “ the musgroves,..were a very good sort of people; friendly and hospitable,..Anne always contemplated them as some of the happiest creatures of her acquaintance.”( Austen, 39). The Musgrove couple have respect for each other and raise their children to be well mannered and it advocates to the idea that having mutual understanding and equality will later build