SHOPPING

Shopping

Shopping

Thesis Statement

“Unconditional love is a exceptional kind of love that can occur when each individual accepts each other ones without hesitation”

Introduction

In most families, the bond between parents and progeny is one of unconditional love. However, not all families' relationships are ideal. In the short story "Shopping" by Joyce Carol Oates, the main characters are lacking a sense of real love in their souls. The story experiences emptiness in their hearts and are searching for unconditional love to fulfill their lives.

Discussion

"Shopping" highlights relationships between mother and daughter, and demonstrates how such relationships may be deeply strained, even when the mother and daughter are on a shopping excursion at the mall—a characteristically American activity. Reading the story is both interesting to both sexes. Women will be naturally interested in the two women, and the men are not so far away from family life that they will not also be interested in the alienation that the story illustrates. This story by Joyce Carol Oates highlights the unique bonds that a parent-child relationship contains, and though similar to other works of literature, this contemporary setting modernizes the ages old problems in dealing with children from a parent's perspective.

The relationship between a mother and female child may be very difficult. Today modern women reside distinct inhabits then a long time ago. Aalallotmentment of women are lone parents and contain a career, thus making the job of a mother very difficult. There are numerous complications and heartaches, but then there is habitually the plus dimensions of love and rewards. This is no exclusion between Nola and her mother Mrs. Dietrich, characters in “Shopping by Joyce Carol Oates. Nola is obviously trying to spread her wings and fly into a juvenile woman, although; Mrs. Dietrich is having a actually hard time letting her go. In Oates short story ...