Monster Essays - Character Sketch For Shiloh
Character sketch for Shiloh
In Bobbie Ann Mason’s story “Shiloh” she presents the character of Norma Jean
as having a strong personality but an emptiness deep within. Norma Jean is presented as
a strong character on the outside in the opening of the story. “She lifts three-pound
dumbbells to warm-up, the progresses to a twenty-pound barbell.”(Mason p. 46).
However as the story progresses she exhibits the emptiness which she feels. “One day
Leroy arrives home from a drive and finds Norma Jean in tears.” (Mason p. 50). Norma
Jean feels an emptiness toward her deceased child, her husband, and a....
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