Pumpkin Eater Analysis

A long time ago in the 1900s there was a woman named Rosemary. She loved fall and wanted some pumpkin seeds. Rosemary decided to go to the farm with her husband Norman and her sister Carrie. Every year they would go to the farm to get pumpkins. This year they were really excited because the farm got better more orange pumpkins. Carrie was in her high 50s and so was Norman. Her sister Carrie was in her high 40s.

He "speaks daggers to her" and condemns her actions against her true family.  Both women are reproached for their relationships and interactions with other men.

In Roald Dahl’s short story “Lamb to the Slaughter” , Mary Maloney murders her husband, a detective, after he declares that he is leaving her. Mary then has to cover her tracks or else she and her unborn child will be killed. Throughout the story, Mary’s character changes from loving wife to cold killer and back again based on her situation.

Looking at the different structures and forms used in both poems, they contrast the difference between one speaker being confused, and not knowing what’s happening, to a very loosely structured ballad.

“Pumpkins” is a complicated story by Francine Prose, about truth and deception, and distinguishing between them (19-22). The scene is set with the description of a fatal accident between a truck full of pumpkins and a small car, whose driver is killed instantly. A

Upon an unspecified day in October, Mr. Pirzada notices pumpkins distributed throughout Lillia’s neighborhood. Asking Lillia about the alien vegetables, Mr. Pirzada has never seen them before. The next day, Lillia’s mother buys a ten-pound pumpkin. When she tells Lillia to decorate it with a marker, the girl refuses— Lillia wants to carve

Author also surprises readers, when he introduces conflict between a couple that used to love each other deeply. Diverting the story from love to betrayal, author develops an irony. In the story, reader sees two examples of betrayal. Ms. Maloney, while talking with her tired husband, finds out her husband no longer want to keep their marriage. Without giving any kind of reason, Patrick betrays her wife with a decision of breaking marriage. Mary shocks, when her husband, boldly, says, “ This is going to be bit shock of you”(P. Maloney) Author creates a total opposite picture of Patrick by describing him as a husband who used to give her wife surprises; he is now giving her shock in the middle of her pregnancy. Mary, who was previously shown as “anxiety less”(Dahl), with “a slow smiling air”(Dahl) and “curiously tranquil”(Dahl), had began to get upset and now inculcate her eye with a “bewildered look.” After betrayed by her husband, she, without any argue, she goes to the basement to look for frozen food. She decides to have leg of a lamb as a last dinner with her husband, but she smashes the frozen leg in to Patrick’s head with killing him. Mary betrays her husband by killing him and takes revenge of her betrayal. Later, Author confirms her as a murdered with the statement of “I’ve killed him”(Mary) from her own lips. Dahl, in the story,

Francine Prose's short fictional piece, "Pumpkins," was about a therapist who was having an epiphany, with how this sudden incident that has happened in town, affects him so greatly. The short piece also played with the significance of the pumpkin in an interesting way. One thing that I noticed in my first read of Prose’s short piece was that it has a very serious and heavy tone. For example, just within the first two lines, “There was a terrible accident. A truck full of Halloween pumpkins is speeding…”. As well as the beginning sentence of paragraph two. The second thing that I had noticed in Prose’s piece was that the story was being told through the therapist perspective. Although it took me several reads to catch this, each time I read

The narrator also begins to view her husband as someone who is not looking out for her and lying to her. “He asked me all sorts of questions, too, and pretended to be very loving and kind. As if I couldn’t see through him!” She did not see him as this loving husband wanting the best for her anymore. She thought he was against

When his hand left her for a few fleeting moments, it took all she had not to whine and beg for more attention. With heat pooling between her legs, a quivering in her thighs, and dampnesss most _certainly_ beginning to form, every touch felt like enough to make her go _crazy_. She was weaker than she wished to let on, and it took every ounce of self control to stop herself from losing what little composure she had left - She wanted him, _only_ him, and he was all her mind allowed her to think about. Dementia's sharp fangs were close to sinking into his flesh again, pressure barely clamping down -

The dinner party had just ended and Plum, Green, Mustard and I were walking to our cars when we saw something laying on the ground lifeless. When we approached the lifeless thing I saw that it was my friend Mr. Boddy. Mr. Boddy is a fit man with brown hair, blue eyes, and always wore a suite that the maid Mrs. Blanche White always ironed the night before. When we got close enough to the body we saw that there was a note and a candlestick the note stated "I am at your dinner party and if you don’t find me by 5:30 I will kill you all and make your deaths painful enjoy trying to find me."

Today I went to the Lantern for the first time. When we arrived and signed in we were told to just go hang out in the living room area and talk to the residents that Cathy would be there around three. We got to talk with the residents and paint pumpkins. The residents are a true blessing.

Once a upon a time here was a little girl named Abby with brown lushness hair and blue crystal eyes , all of her clothing that she wears is all ripped up with holes in her shirt and her pants, only 8 all by herself with no family in the spring. Abby's dog that has green sparkly eyes and White fur that she finds on the street that is named Pumpkin. Abby and Pumpkin lives in a dark alley with shadows all around. Pumpkin and Abby only sleep on an old sofa sometimes they get scared. One day she wanted to go exploring. Pumpkin tagged along.

Welcome children, adults, elderly and people of all ages in between to Jade’s Extravagant Pumpkin Patch! Here we feature the most beautiful activities of fall. Today is the perfect day; the breeze is slightly dancing around us, while the sun is slightly peeking through the clouds and all you need is a light jacket! At my pumpkin patch we offer every fall activity possibly imagined in one place. First I will start you off with my top of the notch pumpkin patch. In previous years we have grown the biggest pumpkin in Iowa weighing in at 175 pounds! My guests are allowed to pick the perfect pumpkin for them, and the amount is unlimited! After you are done at the pumpkin patch take a gander over at our corn maze. This features a map along with hidden treasures buried in the stalks of corn, enter if you dare. If you make it out of the corn maze wander down to our haunted house, unless you would like to wait until after dark! Be ready to run for your lives from terror! If you make it our alive come inside and get some hot chocolate before you head out to our nightly bonfire, which features ghost stories in the dark. This will be the perfect fall day!

The narrator of the story is heavily isolated from society and has limited interactions with people. She is physically isolated from people as their house “is quite alone, […] three miles from the village” (Gilman, “Yellow Wallpaper”, 464). This physical isolation from society is unhealthy for her condition. It will also give the narrator’s husband more ability to further oppress her and keep her from socialization. She also mentions only three people that she may interact with: her husband, child, and sister-in-law. She is not an