Roselily :: essays research papers

Alice Walkers Roselily, when first read considered why she decided to use third person. Especially when the yarn is in such a private line of thought, but then after my second time reading the story I decided that Roselily would not be a strong enough woman to speak about the social injustices that have happened to her. One key part of the story is her new support she volition be facing after she is married in Chicago, while comparing it with her old life she is leaving in Mississippi. In Chicago she lead no longer have a job, but instead be a homemaker where she will be responsible for the children and home. Also, in Chicago she will become a Muslim because it is what her new husband will want her to be, but back in Mississippi she was of the Christian faith. One of the more coercive outcomes of her marriage is that she will go from extreme poverty, to not having to worry about money on a day to day basis. Next, consider the text nerve-racking to express her frustration with life She wants to live for once. But doesnt quite know what that means. Wonders if she has ever done it. If she ever will. (1130) You can sense her need and lacking to be independent of everything and everyone, to be truly a woman on her own free of any shackles of burden that this life has thrown upon her. Also, there is an view that her family does not really care that she is leaving from her sisters to her disinterested father. Roselily, the name is quite perplexing considering a rose stands for passion, love, life while the lily has associations with death, and purity. Still at the selfsame(prenominal) time the name aptly applies to her because the reader knows she is ultimately doomed to wilt away in a loveless marriage in Chicago. Even though she is convincing herself that she loves things about him it is all just a ploy to trick herself into believing that this marriage could be the answer to all her problems. Now on to the hands of Roselilys past most of which are dead- beat dads that could not care about what happens to their children, or where they go.