First, the Cutters went to Omaha for a few days, leaving Antonia in charge of the house. Antonia was anxious and went to see the Burdens the day after the Cutters leave. Mrs. Burden asks her what has happened to make her so distracted and upset. Antonia tells them that Wick Cutter had left explicit instructions for her to stay in the house by herself and guard the Cutters' silver and money. The key idea is to be by herself. She felt troubled by the way Cutter kept looking at her. Mrs. Burden agreed with Antonia that she should feel worried about Cutter, and suggested that Jim sleep at the Cutters' instead of Antonia. Jim is uncertain about the situation, but he agrees, because he cannot stand to see Antonia looking so bothered. The third night Jim sleeps at the Cutters', he hears a man who is Cutter, who enter the house and came into the bedroom. Cutter touches Jim, thinking he is Antonia, and Jim suddenly jumps up. Cutter attacks Jim, beating his face up and screaming at him. Jim escapes Cutter's grasp by pulling on Cutter's thumb and runs all the way home. His grandmother finds him in their parlor. Helping Jim to his room, she tries to make him feel more comfortable, but she starts crying when she sees the bruises on Jim's body. Jim begs his grandmother not to let Antonia and his grandfather see him in this state. He does not want to see Antonia, who is sobbing, because he feels he hates her. He hates her for exposing him to Cutter's evil ways.
Jim is mistaken for being Antonia and he comes onto him while he was laying in her bed, upon Wick figuring out it was a man in her bed he physically battered him. Jim is highly embarrassed by the incident because rumors would spread that he was sleeping with Antonia as well as that he was groped by Wick Cutter! He was mad at Antonia because she put herself in such a grave position and Jim was the one to take the brunt of it. He was angry because she ultimately chose to go out dancing with her friends and put herself in harms way by working for the Cutter's instead of staying at the Harlings.
I agree, she should have stayed at the Harlings and been more level headed about it. Isn't the same guy that kissed her and she slapped the same guy that left her anyway?
When he stays at the Cutters house that night Wick comes home early and he gets woken up and gets into a fight with Wick Cutter. I think Jim is mad because he thinks that Antonia started something and left him to deal with the mess. That of the fact that a gross and creepy old man just felt you might make you hide a bit.
First, the Cutters went to Omaha for a few days, leaving Antonia in charge of the house. Antonia was anxious and went to see the Burdens the day after the Cutters leave. Mrs. Burden asks her what has happened to make her so distracted and upset. Antonia tells them that Wick Cutter had left explicit instructions for her to stay in the house by herself and guard the Cutters' silver and money. The key idea is to be by herself. She felt troubled by the way Cutter kept looking at her. Mrs. Burden agreed with Antonia that she should feel worried about Cutter, and suggested that Jim sleep at the Cutters' instead of Antonia. Jim is uncertain about the situation, but he agrees, because he cannot stand to see Antonia looking so bothered. The third night Jim sleeps at the Cutters', he hears a man who is Cutter, who enter the house and came into the bedroom. Cutter touches Jim, thinking he is Antonia, and Jim suddenly jumps up. Cutter attacks Jim, beating his face up and screaming at him. Jim escapes Cutter's grasp by pulling on Cutter's thumb and runs all the way home. His grandmother finds him in their parlor. Helping Jim to his room, she tries to make him feel more comfortable, but she starts crying when she sees the bruises on Jim's body. Jim begs his grandmother not to let Antonia and his grandfather see him in this state. He does not want to see Antonia, who is sobbing, because he feels he hates her. He hates her for exposing him to Cutter's evil ways.
ReplyDeleteJim is mistaken for being Antonia and he comes onto him while he was laying in her bed, upon Wick figuring out it was a man in her bed he physically battered him. Jim is highly embarrassed by the incident because rumors would spread that he was sleeping with Antonia as well as that he was groped by Wick Cutter! He was mad at Antonia because she put herself in such a grave position and Jim was the one to take the brunt of it. He was angry because she ultimately chose to go out dancing with her friends and put herself in harms way by working for the Cutter's instead of staying at the Harlings.
ReplyDeleteI agree, she should have stayed at the Harlings and been more level headed about it. Isn't the same guy that kissed her and she slapped the same guy that left her anyway?
DeleteWhen he stays at the Cutters house that night Wick comes home early and he gets woken up and gets into a fight with Wick Cutter. I think Jim is mad because he thinks that Antonia started something and left him to deal with the mess. That of the fact that a gross and creepy old man just felt you might make you hide a bit.
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