Allister Harrison Alternate Ending

William watched Reverend Flowers and Mary storm out of his office. His hands shook with anger as he poured himself another glass of vodka. He sat back on the couch and stared up at the ceiling. He knew it would be a long, sleepless night on the couch. After the exchange with Mary, he doubted he would ever spend another night in the same bed with Mary.

She starts to walk on the path of getting to work. Barely awake and aware of her surroundings. As she continues to head to work she starts immediately regretting her life and choices. She hears the sounds of the street and the workers working. She sees the people that were at her wedding. They were exhausted and lacked tons of enthusiasm. They were all drained and out of spirit. She even noticed little Stanislovas who was ill from his act of overeating sausages and sarsaparilla. He is standing at his lard machine, rocking unsteadily, and slightly closing his

“Ma’am, will you tell me the real reason that you make every single person sign that book over there,” he asks pointing towards the piano where the signature book was lying.

“Thankyou.” This causes both of them to drop silent and stare at her- making her blush at the attention.

In The Awakening, Edna Pontellier a wife and mother of two was at first very uptight and obedient as was the way of American culture. She was clearly unhappy, but diligently fulfilled worked toward fulfilling her role of a ‘mother-woman’. As a result of her husband’s absence due to his preoccupation with work, Edna spent most of her time adapting to Creole customs that she picked up from Adele Ratignolle, a woman who was admired for being the epitome of a ‘mother-woman’. Edna even engaged in an innocent romance with a character named Robert whom she later fell in love with. During the family’s summer vacation Edna experienced an ‘awakening’, she ignored the existence of her children and frolicked with the chivalric men of the town whom she shared physical attractions with. The shared companionship between Edna and Robert stirs up emotions she had never felt with her husband. She even started to take up her past time of painting as she had enjoyed during her youth, and often relived memories of her joyful youth experiences. Edna’s husband noticed a shift in her attitude and distance, and sought advice from Dr. Mandelet. The doctor instructed Mr. Pontellier to let his wife’s defiance play its course and she would come back around. He does as instructed, but her antics only became more severe.

       As the tale begins we immediately can sympathize with the repressive plight of the protagonist.  Her romantic imagination is obvious as she describes the "hereditary estate" (Gilman, Wallpaper 170) or the "haunted house" (170) as she would like it to be.  She tells us of her husband, John, who "scoffs" (170) at her romantic sentiments and is "practical to the extreme" (170).  However, in a time

“Coming right up.” Mya said happily. As she went to the kitchen to get the refreshments Hazel asked, “Anything that you have noticed Isaac?”

"Uh...No, ma'am." he said, shaking his head. "Got some business to look into, is all. Got some family

Since it was around seven in the morning and a weekend, Gwen and a well-dressed middle-aged couple were the only ones in the shop. She’s always woken early, ever since childhood, relishing the peace mornings brought before the day started in earnest.

"Thank you," I say, giving Ashley a look. She moves to the back of our small line, Abby still gripping my hand. The two adults enter the house, Skip following after us.

The story pivots around a female protagonist, Edna Pontellier, who has been awakened emotionally, spiritually, and sexually. As she realises that she has the right to refute the societal standards enforced upon her, she flouts her role as a Victorian woman and dedicates herself to fulfil her physical and mental desires. Unhappy and unsatisfied with her husband’s lack of passion in love and sexual fulfilment, she even disregards her responsibilities as a mother and a wife to take an adventure of romance and passion by having affairs with Robert Lebrun and sexual fulfilment with Alcée Arobin. Not only that, instead of

Although The Awakening may be seen as a tragic love story to some, it is truly a novel that displays the turning point for a woman’s role in the 1900’s. The main character, Edna Pontellier, is the epitome of the new working woman. The story centers around Edna’s discovery of her beliefs which are found through a series of awakenings and contrasted with the social norms of the time.

“Lady Alayna looks as lovely as ever.” The dragon prince commented as they resumed their journey.

It was not a beautiful morning in my life of as peasant mom. Whose husband has the Plague and is unable to help with farming. Life is hard, especially when you have three kids (which is a lot more than most peasants have). Living in the 1300s is not all it’s caught up to be. Everyday I have to go to the market and do the job of farming the crops. All these things have to be done to keep my family alive for as long as I can.

“I just can’t this anxiety of having to face another day of school is keeping me hostage inside of this house, inside of my head”