The Geranium

Date 15/02/10 Title The Geranium Text typecast Short story Author Patricia pardon This short story, The Geranium, by Patricia Grace and print 1993, is a perfect example of beaten-up woman syndrome and the psychological effects it has on a person in this causal agent Marney. In the geranium, the main character, Marney is a baulk at home mother. She cleans intensely whole mean solar day and manipulatems rather dull. She does non cater the house level off when one of the girls tells her to set ab divulge for a stretch. You know she is hesitant and you give the bounce feel that there is some liaison stopping her from leaving. at that place seems to be a part of non-stop cleaning, because when her friends, Sandra and Joe, hold back laid over this doesnt stop her from making certainly things are clean, she even sets down writing to stop the floor getting crappy again. Her life is so boring that the cozy up of her week is the arrival of the paper that came on a Wedne sday. The paper is a leave to the outside world that she is no seven-day able to access. Although the paper pictures her eery(prenominal) kinds of things she could do and clubs she could enter, she cant because of a mental block built up by the continuous tread from phellem.The conflict becomes to a greater extent tidy up with the return of Bob her husband. When Bob comes home he immediately starts demands what she has been doing all day. He asks questions astir(predicate) whether shes been digging and cleaning and whos been over. He is so controllerling that he has to know ever little detail to make for sure he does not find out different. When he finds out about The Geranium he tells her to chuck that thing out. This is a clear demonstration of his control, because Marney throws it away without question even though earlier we see that she very precious it.These demonstrations of Bobs authority show us the reason for Marneys resistance to leave for the shops earlier and why she finds the housework so important. The conflict is single-minded when Marney throws out the Geranium at Bobs command. This part of the story is significant because it is Marneys chance to stand up for something she wants. We see earlier in the story that the Geranium is something that she has wanted it is something to bring some colour into her dull, boring, greyish life. A bit of remove to realise her days.But she is damaged from her abuse, and shows she has no freewill. right away faltering under Bobs orders she put it into a scrap bucket as if it was of little matter to her. The sink voiding is her life being drained away. She watches as her life is taken away from here, because she was unavailing to speak up. She has let her chance flight strip away and has been doomed to the same dull days. I think the ideas that Patricia Grace is severe to get across is that domestic madness isnt all physical, that it can go through very much behind the scenes and the shi p canal in which it can happen upon people.Although we get hints that Marney is physically abused such as when Grace mentions that Marney would put on her cardigan to cover up her arm, and when Bob grips her arm until it hurts, we never in reality get any evidence of weighty physical abuse. When the Sandra and Joe come over they beautify Bob up as an staggering guy compared to their intoxicatedard partners. Bob invariably has the groceries, and doesnt come home drunk all the time. But behind the scenes he is very different from the picture the girls bring made. He is threatening towards Marney and extremely controlling.He has scared into such an intense routine that she is no longer able to change that routine and is stuck to doing whatever he wants her to. This shows us that domestic violence can bechance without the knowledge of the people that surrounding. Grace has showed us the way abuse can affect someone through the way Marney is. She has been so controlled by Bob t hat she can no longer even think for herself. She has strike Woman Syndrome and is completely under his control that she can not even legislate out for help. These effects of her abuse show us how badly the aftermath of abuse affect someone just as bad as the abuse itself.The thing that I didnt enjoy about this story is the style of writing. It is written in a boring way to dialect the way Marneys life is, and although it serves the manipulation it left me feeling uninterested. What I did resembling the storyline. The way in which the conflict developed. I liked the way it starts off with what seems like Marney going about a dominion day and then it turns into a day that that brings forth all her abuse and problems. generally starting with the arrival of her friends. These developments give us a great insight into a day in the life of Marney. And it is not a pretty picture.