Реферат: Second Battle Of Shiloh Essay Research Paper

seems to be a role reversal in this marriage, with Norma Jean occupying the masculine

role. Norma Jean has to tell Leroy to find work. She says, ?You have to find a job first?

(Mason 49), referring to Leroy?s desire to build her a log cabin. She even names off jobs

for Leroy: ?You could get a job as a guard at Union Carbide, where they?d let you set on

a stool…You could do a little carpenter work, if you want to build so bad? (Mason 49).

Leroy just says that he can?t do anything where he would have to stand up all day. In bed

that night Norma Jean closes her eyes and requests that the lights be turned out, just like

she wants the lights turned out in this marriage. Leroy still has a preoccupation with

building Norma Jean a log cabin, yet the notion of receiving a truckload of notched,

numbered logs scares him. Once again this symbolizes his fear of the future, just the

opposite of Norma Jean. Although Norma Jean is the ?king of the castle?, Leroy still

yearns for insistence that he is the man of the house. He asks Norma Jean, ?Am I still king

around here?? (Mason 53). When Norma Jean flexes her biceps she is showing Leroy that

she is the leader of the house. Leroy knows that something has to be done to save his

marriage. Mabel, Leroy?s mother-in-law, suggests they take a trip to Shiloh, a Civil War

battleground. This is ready-made symbolism. A battling couple takes a trip to a famous

battleground. Looking for a place to picnic, they sit down next to a cemetery for Union

Soldiers, which symbolizes the death of their life together as husband and wife. She tells

Leroy that she is leaving him and when she walks toward the bluff overlooking the

Tennessee River, Leroy tries to follow. His good leg, however is asleep, and his bad leg

still hurts him. This symbolizes that he will never catch her. She has her own life and he is

stuck in the same place.

In conclusion, I have personally experienced the loss of a friend after we both

embarked on different paths. Although we were the best of friends in high school, when

the time came on that long weekend to hang out, we didn?t even pick up the phone to see

what the other was doing. Although its natural to move in different directions, it still hurts

to no longer have that friend in your life any longer, just like it hurts Leroy not to have

Norma Jean

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