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“Shiloh”: Norma Jean Moffitt - College Essays

“Shiloh”: Norma Jean Moffitt

Norma Jean had waited for Leroy to get his act together for a long time, but Leroy her husband of eighteen years was only getting worst. Norma Jean Moffitt one of the main characters in the short story “Shiloh” written by, Bobbie Ann Mason, wanted more out of life, but she had one huge problem, Leroy. They just did not communicate, nor had the same common interest and values any more.
Norma Jean and Leroy’s son had died in the back seat of the car during the movie, “Dr. Strangelove” at a drive-in theater. Leroy could only remember a scene in the movie where “the President of the United States was talking in a folksy voice on the hot line to the Soviet premier about the bomber ...

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leg off. Norma Jean believed her mother was punishing her, because Mabel had caught her smoking the day before. Norma Jean looked “small and helpless” to the writer, but Leroy took up for her mother and told Norma Jean that “she really did not mean it” more than once (page 52). Leroy sided with Norma Jean’s mother. That made Leroy the enemy too, because if Norma Jean’s mother was the antagonist then Leroy was right there with her.
Norma Jean is a dynamic character because; she is continuously working to better herself in this short story. In the first sentence, she is working on her pectorals. Leroy lays round the house while Norma Jean works in cosmetics at the local Rexall drugstore. She has learned her profession so well that she explains the three stages of complexion care to Leroy, who can only think about axle grease and diesel fuel. Norma Jean graduated a six-week body-building course and now is taking a course in composition at Paducah Community College. She ...

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