She rose to his requirement, dropped
The playthings of her life
To take the honorable work
Of woman and of wife.
But she saw beyond that bitter moment a long procession of years to come that would belong to her absolutely. And she opened and spread her arms out to them in welcome.
The Story of the Hour says how the wife (Mrs. Mallard) is finally free, how she saw the future would belong to her, and she is excited about it. It relates to ” The wife” because the poem tells us how the wife gave up everything (2) and took the honor of being a housewife and “dropped
The playthings of her life, To take the honor, Of woman and of wife.” In ” Story of the hour, Mrs. Mallard repeats, ” Free! Body and soul free! “, although she loves her husband, there are times when she doesn’t (13). “And yet she had loved him — sometimes.” The two stories’ theme connects because they are both wife who are lost and become a housewife. But then became free once their husband’s died
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I really like how you connected the two texts but I feel that you can describe more in detail how they are connected. I like how our views are different but also the same. we saw differently in the Story of the Hour but our views on the poem are similar in many ways how we both saw a woman getting married is like giving up something. In general, I think you can say more about why and how to make this clearer but overall, I like your idea.