– Verb
– To confuse very much
– http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/perplex
– “In the daytime it is tiresome and perplexing.”
– In “The Yellow Wallpaper”, she becomes very confused when looking at the wallpaper trying to distingusih all of the different patterns.
– Adjective
– upset and worried
– http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fretful
– “I don’t feel as if is was worth while to turn my hand over for anthing, and I’m getting dreadfully fretful and querulous.”
– The main character in “The Yellow Wallpaper” is upset and worried becasue she is alone most of her time.
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writing a glossary actually helped me to understand the readings threw out this semester. the more you understand a specific word you don’t know the more clear the story is. i will keep on writing a glossary to add more into my vocabulary and have the capacity to analysis the text faster and easier than before. |
spasmodically- adjective
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/spasmodically
Relating to, affected by, or having the character of a spasm; convulsive.
no name women
” this pain chilled her – a cold, steady kind of surface pain. inside, spasmodically, the other pain, the pain of the child, heated her.”
spasmodically was use to embrace the meaning of pain.
jostling- verb
https://www.google.com/#q=jostling
“Roberta didn’t acknowledge my presence in any way and I got to thinking maybe she didn’t know I was there. I began to pace myself in the line, jostling people one minute and lagging behind the next, so Roberta and I could reach the end of our respective lines at the same time and there would be a moment in our tum when we would face each other”.
twyla was bumping people while going through the line.
Bell Jar – noun
a bell-shaped usually glass vessel designed to cover objects or to contain gases or a vacuum
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/bell+jar
The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath
“wherever I sat—on the deck of a ship or at a street café in Paris or Bangkok—I would be sitting under the same glass bell jar, stewing in my own sour air”
Throughout this story the significance of the bell jar was very important here we see Esther feeling that she is inside of a bell jar because she is suffocating within her own thoughts. Esther is not able to express what she truly feels in this is why she feels trap.
hunky-dory
“My ears were itching and I wanted to go home suddenly. This was all very well but she couldn’t just comb her hair, wash her face and pretend everything was hunky-dory. After the Howard Johnson’s snub. And no apology. Nothing“.
Twyla pretend everything was fine.
– adjective
– Pleasent and enjoyable; very friendly
– http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/congenial
– “Personally, I believe that congenial work, with excitement and change, would do me good.”
– In “The Yellow Wallpaper”, the main character has temporary nervous depression. Her brother and husdnad forbid her to work, but she believes that congenial work will do her good.
occurring between members of the same country, group, or organization
adjective
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/internecine
“You know you believe it when you start your own little family with some person you met four years ago in a bar and then he tries to open the presents on Christmas Eve because that’s what he did in his family and you have the strong urge to run screaming from the building holding your banner about the end and how it is nigh. It is a moving and comic thing — a Murdochian scuffle between the Real and the Dream — to watch a young couple as they teeter around the Idea of Christmas, trying to avoid internecine festive warfare.”
They didn’t want their traditions to clash now that they’re living together.
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