“She rose to his requirement, dropped The playthings of her life To take the honorable work Of woman and of wife” The first four lines relate to Mrs. Mallard’s emotional state in “The Story of an Hour” because she did not really love her husband. Mrs. Mallard probably had to be forced to be with this man because of how things were in the nineteenth century. She had to leave who she was before the marriage, her true self, to be with someone who had destroyed this. If aught she missed in her new day Of amplitude, or awe, Or first prospective, or the gold In using wore away, Mrs. Mallard was not able to be herself during her marriage. She questions how her days are going to be freeing since her husband is dead now. She thinks of her spring and summer days and how those days will be her own. She repeats to herself that she is free. This is her “if”. It lay unmentioned, as the sea Develops pearl and weed, But only to himself is known The fathoms they abide. From the end of the story, we can see that her husband never was in the train wreck. He walks through the door and Mrs. Mallard has died of “heart disease” once she sees him. Her emotions are locked forever because she is not able to say how she really felt about her relationship. She was not able to express that she was unhappy in her marriage and did not really love her husband. Now, her emotions had sunk in the sea and turned into pearls and weeds.
Daily Archives: March 22, 2022
In the essay “A Good Man is Hard To Find” the interior in this story would be selfishness and guilt I believe. In the story, the grandma did not want her and her family to go to Florida for one reason and that was because they were afraid of the misfit. At the being of the story, she said she had a feeling that they were going to get attacked by the misfit, and also she heard that he was going towards Florida and that was also a way of her trying to convince her son to go to Tennessee, They end up getting to an accident which led to her family being in danger three men ran across them which happen to be the misfit man she was trying to stay away from. The misfit believed that he was a good man and the grandmother knew the background and was saying he was also a good man fear never feared the grandma and I thought that was really selfish of her while her whole entire family passed away knowing they were scared the grandma passed away happy.
