In “The Wife” by Emily Dickinson, the author explains how her childhood experience was detrimentally impacted because of how young she had to throw her youth away and center her life on being a wife. She explains that being a wife includes making heavy sacrifices and leaving behind dreams and aspirations you have for yourself. “If aught she missed in her day of amplitude, or awe, or first prospective, or the gold in using wore away”. These lines from the poem demonstrate the wife pondering about what life could have been, had she not become a wife so early. This enhances how the decision was not something she was ready for and included sacrificing one way of life for another, and in turn this left her with questioning thoughts. “The Story of an Hour” relates to “The Wife”, as both the women aren’t that happy with their marriage and it keeps them in a way of life they do not appreciate. The wife in “The Story of an Hour” has a realization after a brief period of grief when hearing her husband had passed away, where she was filled with a new found sense of independence, and a sense of freedom that she will now be living for herself here on out. She is almost paralyzed with emotion. Both the poem and story exemplify how women should make a life of their own, one they would be excited to live with or without someone else, before committing a lifetime to marriage. A lot of times, marriage can come with sacrifices that draw you away from your souls true desires if you are not careful about the commitment.
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