Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Loss and Grief
- Whose?
- EIlis
- Loss of a sense of Home
- One sided understanding of her future
- She always thought that she would be a wife to a man in Ireland and nothing else
- Lost Rose
- Loss of Purity: She had pre marital sex with Tony
- Mrs Lacey
- Loses her children
- Three to migration: Eilis, Jack, Pat and Martin
- Rose dies
- Miss Kelly
- Loses Eilis as an employee
- Tony
- Lost Contact with Eilis and her' presence for three weeks
- How does this affect them?
- Eilis' homesickness gives her the opportunity to go to College and attend a university
- Mrs Lacey slowly losing all her children could be taking a toll on her emotional wellbeing
- What kinds of loss?
- Loss: Eilis, Jack and Mrs Lacey loses Rose
- Loss: Eilis loses her innocence as she leaves Enniscorthy
- Loss: Eilis starts to lose her interest and love for Tony as she spends more time with Jim
- Loss of a home [homesick]
- Mrs Lacey's Loss of family: Widow, mother who's lost her children to life (distance and death)
- What kinds of grief?
- Eilis' grief when Rose died
- Mrs Lacey's grief when Rose died
- Are there solutions?
- The distractions that Eilis uses to not think about home
- The dances they attend aids her homesickness
- Temporary Solution for Mrs Lacey: Post Rose's death, Eilis comes back and that distracts Mrs Lacey
- Are there changes through loss and grief
- Change in lifestyle:: Mrs Lacey now has to live a life without the support of Rose and endures a life of loneliness
- Change of attitude: Eilis begins to speak her mind and come out of her shell
- With the homesickness, she becomes much more reserved than usual since she doesn't feel comfortable in her environment