The Necklace The character of Mathilde is complex. She is an unhappy person based on her family’s financial background. She was born into a poor family and married into a poor family. Mathilde relied on her beauty as her only fortune. In her mind, her beauty was the only way she would be...

“I Stand Here Ironing” is about a women and her struggle to make her daughter happy. It is about her hard life and a daughter with whom she can’t do anything right. The woman in the story is struggling with internal conflicts; She has so many decisions to make about raising and caring for ...

"Still, she wanted to make the river flow in a direction of her choosing" (30). Zilpah's thoughts embodied a major theme of Anita Diamant's novel, The Red Tent. Enmity and jealousy tainted several important relationships throughout the story. Zilpah's need to manipulate and control anothe...