The Painted Door Essay

Zeinat In life, people come across situations that require them to make risky decisions that may impact their life. Making life changing decisions are portrayed in both stories, by the protagonists Ann from “The Painted Door” and Zeinat from “The Ghobashi Household”. Ann from “The Painted Door” is a farmer’s wife who is dealing with loneliness thus, decides to cheat on her husband with her neighbour, which leads to a tragic end. Zeinat from “The Incident in the Ghobashi Household” is a mother…

storm makes Ann lonely and creates a barrier between her and her husband John. Ann loves John but feels that John is working all the time in order to give her things she does not want. All Ann wants is John’s company. 2. The atmosphere within “The Painted Door” is one of guilt. Ann deals with the guilt she has a result of cheating on John with Steven. Before Ann sleeps with Steven, he tries to reassure her and ease her guilt by telling her “’It’s too rough a night’...‘Even for John.…

The Role of Each Husband The husbands in “The Yellow Wall-paper” by Charlotte Perkins Stetson and “The Painted Door” by Sinclair Ross play a specific yet similar role. While they are very different they aim to make their wives feel better and loved. Their difference in each short novel are quite a few. While John from “The Painted Door” is a quiet gentleman, the husband from “The Yellow Wall-paper” also named John is very controlling and outspoken over his wife and her actions. Their…

People always have their own desires and ambitions. Most people try to working hard even sacrifice something else in life to achieve their goals. However, sometimes an individual may sacrifice for more personal profit. In “the Painted Door” by Sinclair Ross, it explores that an individual will attempt to disguise their selfish actions through seemingly sacrificial behaviour in order to justify pursuing their own personal desire. John, is a good example that a person who seemingly sacrificial…

ambivalence serves as the catalyst to separate the before and after of an individual's life. At the end of the line, that path that was once shrouded in confusion becomes clear, and the outcome of each potential choice can be seen. In Sinclair Ross’ “The Painted Door”, the treacherous setting embodies an edge of escalating ambivalence in Ann’s character as she is awakened to the reality of her routine life, ultimately causing her to spiral into the rising storm of her suffocating loneliness and…

When an individual attempt to achieve self-satisfaction and eager for freedom, despite there would be a sense of loneliness, it often results in frantic guiltiness due to the self-absorbed ambition. The short story, the Painted Door by Sinclair Ross is about the fluctuating emotions of a farmer’s wife, Ann, while her husband was away from home during a double wheel blizzard. In the story, Ann has significantly reveals that she cannot deal with the restricting life as a wife of an unambitious and…

Relationships can be the most amazing thing in the world, they can change a person to be better, but they can also change a person into something they are not and that can never be foreseen. The relationships between John and Ann in the short story “The Painted Door”, by Sinclair Ross, and Gabriella and Liam in the short story “Bluffing”, by Gail Helgason, are both unsuccessful, which leads them to unravel. It is nearly impossible for a relationship to be perfect, but there are some important…

so curious of the outcome that will be the best they deserve. “Horses of the Night” by Margaret Lawrence and “The Painted Door” by Sinclair Ross are the two short stories that show the remarkable ways in dealing with uncertain and ambiguous cases of the impending outcomes. “Horses of the Night” shows Vanessa thoughts of Chris’ acceptance into the University and colleges. “Painted Door” also explains the predictions of Ann that John’s arrival is going to be quick. The predictions in human’s mind…

croissant. it was the morning and there was merely only joggers in sight and children, including myself scurrying to school. I make the trecherous journey to top of the hill high school with the mob of kids. I reach the front door with one strong push i open the thousand year old door and fight my way inside. The building i overwhelming yelling, shoving, and a overwhelming sensation of teenage angst. I dodge my way through a corridor, seven people across with at least four of five six people…

to the building. She silently shifted through the crowds of fellow students, slinking through like a shadow, and eventually she was at the front of the crowd and stepping through the doors. What was strange, however, was that the doors were kept opened by themselves and not kept open by teachers. Usually, these doors on the outside of the building were locked from the inside and had to be opened by a teacher to let students in. Also, none of these said teachers were even present. They hadn’t…