Times have changed for the most part but back then it seemed a woman’s identity was defined by the state of their marriage. In the short story “The Marriage” The wife is robbed of her free will and decision making. Her image and character became publicly synonymous with her husbands which in turn forced her to follow her husbands every command. In “the story of an hour” the wife found herself dealing with the same problem of freedom and identity, except that instead of the story dwelling on her sad life, when she hears her husband had died, she becomes so happy and thrilled at the thought of having a space of time in which she’s her own woman that she ends up dying of a heart attack. Regardless, in both stories the world was robbed of these women.
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Hello Demetrio, I enjoyed reading your relation to the poem “The Wife” and “The story of an Hour” by stating they were robbed of their freedom and identity. I also agreed, they both gave up their life as young women with dreams to become a wife, not realizing their dreams and aspirations would’ve went out the door. However you didn’t include the totality of the poem, but great analyzation.