\u201cThe wife\u201d by Emily Dickinson and \u201cThe story of an Hour?\u201d by Kate Chopin are both short pieces that highlight the inequality faced by women, especially married women. They both have a reoccurring theme of the dysfunctional relationship between husband and wife. In the third stanza of \u201cthe wife\u201d it says \u201cBut only to himself is known the fathoms they abide.\u201d I believe that this means that the husband is the only one that knows what their wife goes through on a day-to-day basis and at the same time it means that they don\u2019t know the depth of what their wife actually goes through especially during the times the poem and short story was written as women had much less rights than they do today. This is especially noted when Ms. Mallard dies when she finds out her husband is alive as all her hopes and dreams of being freed from married life are instantly crushed. It shows how their relationship was so dysfunctional and how Ms. Mallard hated it so much that she would rather die than go back to her husband.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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