Disconnection in The Member of the Wedding
As we grow older, we begin to experience an innumerable amount of life changing lessons that slowly mold us into the person we are meant to be. Although we may not understand the reason behind the situation right at the exact moment it is occurring, we will realize the reason why it happened when time passes by and we look back at everything we gone through. Frankie, the main protagonist, has gone through the heartbreak of losing her mother and to add to that, the feeling of not having her father and older brother around as much as she would love to, has caused her to feel as if she is not loved by anyone. Throughout the story, Frankie has greatly matured as she develops an open mind and is exposed to different types of obstacles and experiences in society. In The M ember of the Wedding, Carson McCullers illustrates disconnection, maturity, and solitude with the …show more content…
The color blue is used to describe the color of the windows, pajamas, her father’s shirt, the sky, and more importantly, the bar where Frankie met a soldier (Thomason 17). One evening, Frankie had dinner with a soldier that was slightly older than her and it made her extremely nervous, because she had never talked to a soldier; nevertheless, gone on a date with one. The bar was named “Blue Moon”, which further explains the significant meaning of the color blue.
In the final part, the color gray represents how boring and dull Frankie thinks her hometown and life is. Frankie uses the color gray to describe sidewalks, the ocean, and the air. The color comes to symbolize the many things she leaves behind at the end of the story. At the end of the story, Frankie views the world in a different way, because of the experiences she goes through. She no longer sees any dull colors, instead, she has a totally different perspective of her life and the world (Thomason
As we grow older, we begin to experience an innumerable amount of life changing lessons that slowly mold us into the person we are meant to be. Although we may not understand the reason behind the situation right at the exact moment it is occurring, we will realize the reason why it happened when time passes by and we look back at everything we gone through. Frankie, the main protagonist, has gone through the heartbreak of losing her mother and to add to that, the feeling of not having her father and older brother around as much as she would love to, has caused her to feel as if she is not loved by anyone. Throughout the story, Frankie has greatly matured as she develops an open mind and is exposed to different types of obstacles and experiences in society. In The M ember of the Wedding, Carson McCullers illustrates disconnection, maturity, and solitude with the …show more content…
The color blue is used to describe the color of the windows, pajamas, her father’s shirt, the sky, and more importantly, the bar where Frankie met a soldier (Thomason 17). One evening, Frankie had dinner with a soldier that was slightly older than her and it made her extremely nervous, because she had never talked to a soldier; nevertheless, gone on a date with one. The bar was named “Blue Moon”, which further explains the significant meaning of the color blue.
In the final part, the color gray represents how boring and dull Frankie thinks her hometown and life is. Frankie uses the color gray to describe sidewalks, the ocean, and the air. The color comes to symbolize the many things she leaves behind at the end of the story. At the end of the story, Frankie views the world in a different way, because of the experiences she goes through. She no longer sees any dull colors, instead, she has a totally different perspective of her life and the world (Thomason