Macbeth
...attitude towards his answer. “You know the place is doing you good,” he said, “and really, dear, I don’t care to renovate the house just for three months” (p.120). Mr. Martin faces a problem with Mrs. Barrows. She has become a nuisance to Mr. Martin as he took her case. “She had, for almost two years now, baited him. In the halls, in the elevator, even in his office, into which she romped now and then like a circus horse, she was constantly shouting [out silly questions]” (p.212). His hatred; however, was hidden from everyone else. “He had maintained always an outward appearance of polite tolerance. “Why, I even believe you like the woman,” Miss Paird, his assistant, had once said to him. He had simply smiled” (p. 213). In order to deal with these problems, both characters use the preconceived view others have of them. In the narrator’s case, John thinks she is a child. He calls her a little girl and puts her into a nursery. He says that she should rest and that she can’t write or see anybody until she is healthy and able to function outside of the nursery. Mr. Martin is very punctual and does not drink or smoke. He makes a point to merely be perfect. He is on time to work everyday and arrives on time to work at the same time everyday. “Mr. Martin got to the office at eight-thirty the next morning, as usual” (p. 216). He is the best in his department keeping his office in strict order with many filing cabinets to make sure all his work is filed precisely (p.213). He polished his glasses more often and sharpened an already sharpened pencil, but not even Miss Paird noticed. He had never drunk anything stronger then milk in his life, unless you could count ginger ale. “He got there, as he always did, at eight o’clock. He finished his dinner and the financial page of the Sun at a quarter to nine, as he always did. It was his custom after dinner to take a walk” (p. 214). Both the characters hide behind these stereotypes to resolve their difficulties. The narrator pretends to be getting better as she increasingly obsesses over the wall paper. Day in and day out all she can do is stare at the wall-paper and try and find out where it leads to. She tries frantically many times to follow the pattern on the wall-paper and always ends up getting stuck or in the place where she started. The narrator is sick but all she does is study the wall-paper. She is obsessed finding the women behind the bars. The final day at the house stays up all night and day to figure out how to get the women out of the wall-paper. The narrator rips off the wall-paper through the night in order to free the women. “I pulled and she shook. I shook and she pulled, and before the night was over we had peeled off yards of that wall-paper” (p. 128). The narrator locks herself in the room and tries to tear away the rest of the wall-paper before John comes home. Then when John finally breaks in the narrator had gone completely m...