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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.
having or showing very strong feelings
adjective
“Certainly better than Denzil’s the year he got his own place and phoned us to say he’d killed a partridge in the backyard with a slingshot and just finished eating it like a proper English gentleman (it was a London pigeon, of course). Oh, we Smiths are ardent seekers after the spirit of Christmas, and we do not listen to Iris Murdoch’s sensible analogical advice: ”Good represents the reality of which God is the dream.” We’re chasing the dream, baby.”
They spent their time better than Denzil did.
to increase in number or amount quickly
verb
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/proliferation
“Denzil found this out when he attempted, on this most sacred of days, to do the things we could not do because we’d always done them another way, our way — a way we all hated, to be sure, but could not change. Denzil wants to open a present on Christmas Eve — don’t do that, Denzil. Denzil wants to go for a walk — I’m so sorry, Denzil, that’s impossible. We’d like to, but we just can’t swing it. Why not? Because, Denzil. Just because. Because like the two parts of Ireland, because like the Holy Trinity, because like nuclear proliferation, like men not wearing skirts, because like brandy butter.”
She made it clear that the reason they couldn’t go against their traditions or do things differently was because they were so used to it and it’s routine. It doesn’t really need an explanation
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