This week the readings were “Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin, “Love Poem 17: The Wife” by Emily DIckinson, and “The Necklace” by Guy de Maupassant, I was surprised by “The Necklace”. It surprised me how at the end of the story Madame Loisel sees Madame Forestier and approaches her to tell her how about the replacement necklace. It was remarkable and showed how proud of herself Madame Loisel was because she told her the truth about the hard work she went through to pay off her debt. I was surprised to hear from Madame Forestier that it was a fake necklace. In my opinion, this would be something that she could have very easily heard about considering the amount of people Madame Loisel and her husband had to borrow money from in order to pay it off. I feel like it is definitely something that could have been mentioned before.
I was intrigued by “Love Poem: 17” because in very few words, Dickinson demonstrated how the wife “dropped” her life to take on the role of a wife and became what her husband required of her as his significant other. This caught my attention because many times in life we unfortunately hear how a woman drops everything around her to become what a man wants or needs of her. Therefore, it was something that was, in a way, relatable.
I was puzzled by “Story of an Hour”. From my understanding, Mrs. Mallard was someone who was not in a healthy relationship with her husband, which is why she was yelling “Free! Free!” when she was by herself after hearing of his death. She maybe felt relieved because she was no longer going to have to deal with him. It was shocking to me to find out he was alive. From witnessing the news of her husband not being dead, Mrs. Mallard had a heart attack based on the surprise she witnessed.
3 thoughts on “Raiza Mallol Discussion 9”
Hi Raiza it is interesting to see that we both have the same understanding when it comes to reading this story, I completely agree with you and its interesting how first Madame Loisel who always wanted to live a luxury life ends up in borrowing a necklace, loosing it and then paying off the debt for her whole life for the replacement necklace, I wonder how the story would have been if the Madam Loisel told the truth at the begging that the necklace was lost she might not have even had to pay off for the necklace .
I was also quite surprised by this story! It was so odd to me that someone could be happy about the death of their husband. I mentioned in my post that at first I thought this was a coping mechanism, or maybe even denial but I was wrong. When you said that she wasn’t in a healthy relationship with him, that made more sense. Also, the fact that she died from a heart attack once she saw that he was actually alive, was another shocker as well.
Hello Raiza from “Love Poem 17” the same part surprised me and intrigued me as well it really gave me a gage s in no matter the setting time period area that is taking place the women disbanded everything she was doing to be at the call of her husband. It didn’t give me a sense of relatable but an understanding into the world of a women and how she is just expected to drop everything for her man.