Analysis Of She's Come Undone

In Lamb’s novel She’s come undone the main character Delores compare her life with television programs. Delores was born and raised in 1950 that time was when women stay at home and making food and men were working outside. That time television was the latest invention after the radio because before that people listen radio but after that audience start watching television screen. The viewers were start learning everything from television in 1950s because television showed about fashion, family shows, games and World War as Delores father was watched, and some other shows. Delores start watching television at the age four and feel like it’s all real.
Television plays an important role in the society because some people learn negative things …show more content…
“We sat together on the sofa, my leg hooked around Ma’s, and listened to the women whose children were crippled by polio, whose houses had been struck by lightning and death and divorce” (page 5). Dolores was sitting with her ma and watched television programs even her ma stops working in the house and start watching Queen for a Day. In the program 's woman was in hard situation because her children suffered from polio and her husband gives her divorce and Dolores think that’s its true whatever in the programs. She was starting imagined women were seriously in difficult situation as shown in the television. Even some television showed based on real story but in 1950, they telecasted based on imagination but these days’ television shows are real …show more content…
“Adolescents who reported watching more television also reported eating more high-fat foods and fast food, drinking more soft drinks, and consuming fewer fruits and vegetables” (American general). In She comes undone, Delores was sit in front of television and eating potato chips, chocolate, candies and drinking which increase the obesity in her body and also increase the stress in her body because high fat food increase the fat in the body. These type lifestyle increase stress, depression and anxiety, and at the end of the life person stay alone and nobody talk to them because they like to stay alone in the house or just watch the television. Sometimes everyone in the house but who watch maximum time television just watching it, they are not care about the who are in the house or not on the other side it’s very important to make friends as rather than watching television. As Delores was just watching television and she was not care about anyone in the house but on the other side Delores feel jealous when her mother talk bird and maximum time spend with bird. When Delores was married with Dante, she was stop watching television but when conflict arises both of them then she again starts watching television. One the other reason is when Delores heard news of her grandmother death and father death she was in