Characters In Olive Kitteridge

Great Essays
Olive Kitteridge
New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth Strout’s book “Olive Kitteridge” is an amazing combination of 13 stories, revolves around the one character name Olive. A woman who’s character is larger than life. Complexity of her personality involves the reader with her till the end. From “Pharmacy” to “River” a reader finds an infinite trait of her person. She is a teacher, wife, mother and a life saver too. The book is about the story of a woman’s regrets, her depressions, her desires, pain, her loneliness, and about the fear of rejections. Throughout the book reader can see her struggle to make sense of her life and her marriage. In the few stories like “Piano Player”, and ‘Winter Concert” she is not much mentioned by Strout.
…show more content…
How she remembered her students, and how she had a soft corner about her students. It is not like she is always fighting with the people around. This incident gives a clear view of how she can make a positive difference in some one’s life. Olive may be blunt, out spoken yet also emphatic and vuluarble too. This is the all about her charm personality. Olive is very kindhearted which example can also be seen in the “Starving”. In this chapter by looking at the miserable condition of girl name Nina, olive bursts into tears. It is odd for Harmon, and Daisy; because they all have the different perceptive about Olive, which is rude, straight forward, and blunt. “If there’s any one in town Harmon believed he would never see cry, Olive was that person” (96). Even though Nina was completely stranger for her, still Olive was feeling sympathy for her. “I don’t know who you are, but young lady you are breaking my heart” (96).she has a sense of compassion even for the strangers.
The most important part of Olive’s life is her one and only son Christopher. THE “Little Burst” is the actual story in which reader get to know the story in olive’s point of view. This story is readers covers the distance from knowing to acknowledge her. The first chapter from her point of view, on her life. Her son is getting married to the girl name Suzanne, who is not favorite of Olive’s. She don’t want Christopher to marry this girl. But she is happy at his wedding. She wants Christopher to found a nice girl, because she thinks loneliness kill

Related Documents

  • Improved Essays

    The Paper Crane Imagine a time where people spent the evenings at the disco. Life was full of hope and women were looked at from a completely new perspective, oh the 70’s. Within the town of Woodsbury, a young girl named Emily lived with her family. Despite being 9 years old, she loved to feel and act like a grown up.…

    • 1630 Words
    • 7 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Critical Lens Essay Harper Lee, in her novel To Kill a Mockingbird wrote, “You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.” In other words, to fully understand someone’s point of view, you must put yourself into their situation. This statement holds true in most literary settings, as to make sense of a character’s actions and thought process; you must consider their situation and their past experiences.…

    • 1654 Words
    • 7 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Inspirational, uplifting, and informational are three words I choose to describe the memoir: Becoming Ms. Burton wrote by Cari Lynn and Susan Burton. It’s not every day you get the chance to read a book that is able to enhance your own perspective on life, but Ms. Burton’s book did just that. The story, Ms. Burton’s story, give reader’s a major glimpse into the life of a woman suffering from her unearned disadvantages and the consequences that are tied to those disadvantages. The beginning of the story starts with Susan, Ms. Burton’s former self, and takes the reader’s on a journey through Susan’s life full of hardships from growing up in a crime-ridden neighborhood, to her introduction to crack cocaine. As the book moves forward, Susan’s story evolves into a bigger story that is connected to multiple social problems such as poverty, abuse, and racial discrimination in the justice system.…

    • 743 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Superior Essays

    Mama Tataba

    • 1328 Words
    • 6 Pages

    The story is told over a span of many years starting in 1959 when the Price family, Orleanna, Nathan, and their four daughters: Leah, Rachel, Adah, and Ruth May, move to Kilanga Village in Africa from the U.S. state of Georgia. Nathan is a missionary who is going to convert the people of Kilanga Village to Christianity by baptizing them. From this starting point the plot is forwarded by some major events such as; Nathan’s garden not growing any fruit due to the lack of North American insects to pollinate it, Mama Tataba leaving them because Nathan is obsessing about baptizing the natives in the river, the Belgian government says they are handing over the Congo to the people and are hosting elections for the next leader, Orleanna gaining the confidence to speak her mind to Nathan, the ants destroying the villages food, Ruth May dying due to the Mamba snake, Orleanna leading her daughters out of the jungle secretly. •…

    • 1328 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Decent Essays

    Emily Webb Quotes

    • 407 Words
    • 2 Pages

    Emily Webb is one of the main and most important characters in the book ¨Our Town.¨ Emily Webb is a round character because of the extremely realistic characteristics she has also because she develops a lot throughout the whole book. Some of Emily Webbs main traits as the main character in ¨Our Town¨ is that she is a extremely nice girl that is never mean to anyone and it's almost like Emily has the perfect life and and is in the best position she could begin in life wise in the book. As she develops she still is the same girl throughout the book…

    • 407 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Critique of Essay Street Scenes by Ann Hood Ann Hood once said, “I have come to learn that there is more power in a good strong hug than in a thousand meaningful words.” Indeed, it may be very true to say that; one good hug from your family member will give you the courage to overcome hardship than meaningful words spoken by the people Ann Hood is an American novelist and short story writer; she has also written nonfiction. The author of fifteen books, her essays, and short stories have appeared in many journals, magazines, and anthologies, is a faculty member in Creative Writing program at The New School in New York City including the Street Scenes. It is one of her collection of short essays published in the mid-70s.…

    • 833 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Great Essays

    The roles of women reflected in the late nineteenth century up until the 1960’s were known to be portrayals of the perfect housewife or of one who lacked status. Jamaica Kincaid’s “Girl” and Kate Chopin’s “The Story of an Hour” both represent the gender role that was expected of woman in their time period and their restrictions to having their own identity. Mrs. Mallard and Girl are similar because they both lack their own true identity and have expectations from others as to how they should act and who they should be. A common theme shown in both stories is repression.…

    • 1265 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Great Essays
  • Improved Essays

    In Laurel Thatcher Ulrich’s groundbreaking novel A Midwife’s Tale , she organizes and recounts thoughts, feelings, and events depicted in Martha Ballard’s diary. Martha Ballard was able to see and experience a lot in her time in Hallowell and was able to immortalize her experiences through her diary. Throughout the entirety of the novel the central theme is the different experiences the men and women, including Martha, have in the Massachusetts territory, Hallowell.…

    • 981 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Decent Essays

    Throughout the novel, Jeannette and her family seem to be on the run during her childhood. Her parental s do not let her know directly that they have financial problems, but rather say that they are being chased by the FBI. Jeannette struggles to see her father's alcoholism threaten the family throughout the novel, and her mother’s “aloofness” towards the family. Jeannette also battles with self sufficiency issues as well as conformity in her unusual…

    • 76 Words
    • 1 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Great Essays

    This course explored four novels, which examined the connections between race, gender, age, and class. The women characters from each novel dealt with their own victimizations. The two women that will be discussed within this essay are Janie Crawford from Their Eyes Were Watching God and Etta Mae Johnson from The Women of Brewster Place. In Their Eyes Were Watching God, Janie Crawford is the main character, and the novel explores her story which consist of confusion, love, and hate. Janie experiences many obstacles and hardships; she strives to find her voice and eventually succeeds in doing so over many years.…

    • 2175 Words
    • 9 Pages
    Great Essays
  • Improved Essays

    We can all agree that the Youngers as well as the Hoovers had some sort of dysfunctionality in their families. In both films, each character challenges social norms in one way or another. In Little Miss Sunshine, Olive goes against the norms of her society by entering a beauty pageant where society puts absurd beauty standards for little girls. In the film “A Raisin in the Sun”, Beneatha goes up against all the norms of that era, and attends college. Beneatha strives to become one of the first female african american doctor.…

    • 830 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Human personality naturally changes over time. Sometimes it is sudden but more often it is a gradual change. Character development is practically a must have of good fictional narrative writing. It usually happens gradually as it does in nature to make the writing realistic but Roald Dahl uses striking changes in character personality to create an incredibly intriguing character. Mary Maloney in the short story “Lamb to the Slaughter” by Roald Dahl experiences major, instantaneous characteristic changes throughout the text.…

    • 764 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    The death of her husband tells the reader that Mrs. Mallard was not happy in her marriage and is free to be an independent woman without the negative judgment from her peers. In “Desiree’s Baby”, Chopin talks about how controlling her husband is by being a slave owner and how he responds to thinking she is not white. In this story, Desiree’s husband is portrayed as a self-centered jerk. These examples in each story are vital because even though both women are in unhappy marriages with controlling husbands; their husbands have different antagonistic…

    • 946 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Character Analysis Of Nora In A Doll's House

    • 687 Words
    • 3 Pages
    • 1 Works Cited

    under those circumstances, her reactions to the restrictions posed upon her were normal. They also made life easier for her; she could simply have fun and enjoy life. Her father's attitude was undoubtedly the main reason that she picked a man like Torvald to marry. Unconsciously, she was still seeking a father figure, a continuation of her childhood.…

    • 687 Words
    • 3 Pages
    • 1 Works Cited
    Improved Essays
  • Superior Essays

    By dehumanizing Little Flower’s apparent pain, the mother illustrates how she does not want to acknowledge the suffering intertwined in her own life. The mother echoes society’s ability to strip the…

    • 1322 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Superior Essays