Comparing Harvey's Dream And A Sorrowful Woman

In both novels we experience a high sense of the women lacking in control, one significant being the lack of control over their marriages.

Alterations: Comparing the Changes Caused by Marriage of the two Bessie Head Short Stories, “Life” and “Snapshots of a Wedding”

In the short stories Hell-Heaven by Jhumpa Lahiri and The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman both stories convey similar theme. Gilman’s short story, The Yellow Wallpaper, tells a story of a mentally unstable wife, while Lahiri’s short story, Hell-Heaven, informs us about a mother and daughters story from the perspective of her daughter. The characters from both stories come from different cultures but one thing they both have in common is their roles. They marry with the purpose of serving for household duties such as cooking, cleaning, laundry, and taking care of children if they have any. Also lets not forget another job they have is keeping the husband satisfied and happy! In both stories the marriages are in a way similar to

There are many types of love in the world, and many different ways to love a person. Without the right type of love, one’s personal growth is often stunted and it can prove to be detrimental to one’s wellbeing. This is shown and explored in both “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman and “Do You Know Where I Am?” by Sherman Alexie. Although the characters differ in gender and mental health, they are both stuck in marriages that lack communication and ultimately, the type of love they need.

Living in a society where every morning you wake up and are forcly proceeded to a repetitive schedule that consists of waking up, hearing your husband's annoying abusive attitude, and living through the cold depressing storms that hover over. Fortunately there's a sudden pain reliever that won't let them overdose because, they can't get enough of it. The pain, and relief of freeing themselves from escaping their horrible reality. Of having a horrible relationship and escaping to a magical world where both women, Delia Jones and aunt Jennifer, no longer see rainy storms that depress their minds. And abusive tones that burn their skins and rattle and fill their ear drums of torture. Though both marriage are very similar they

There are many similarities and differences between the two husbands in the stories, The Chrysanthemums by John Steinbeck and The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. A few of these include how the treat their wives, their views on marriage, and their intentions. Both do care for their wives, whether they express it clearly or not. What seems to hold them back in both stories, respectively, is their ignorance.

Any individual can achieve their aspirations with the correct influences, but for Laura in “The Two Offers”, her voice is diminished by her husband’s authority, leading subsequently to her personal oppression. As Laura enters marriage, she initially illustrates it as a “beautiful dream,” but eventually, her dream transforms into a nightmare as her husband discovers “other attractions that lay beyond the pale of home influences” (Harper 4). Although Laura formerly holds a positive outlook on marriage, her view changes drastically as her husband starts to form decisions on his own accord without the input his wife. Despite her husband’s autonomy, however, Laura persists her inferior role in marriage and fails to directly voice her concerns. With her carelessness, Laura amplifies her subjection and ultimately allows her husband to assume more authority over her.

Failing is a form of failure or a fault of individuals; it is also a weakness of a person’s ability of doing something. In the novel, “You or Someone like You”, Chandler Burr writes how a marriage that has a normal and simple life goes through hard times and sometimes, even reaches the point to make an important decision about choosing the success in life or the most desirable thing in each couple’s life: marriage. However, Howard Rosenbaum’s friends refer his wife, Anne Rosenbaum, to start her own book club; Anne’s book club becomes Hollywood A-lister; and Anne sacrifices everything she has achieved in life to save her marriage. Fame, fortune, and newfound friendships are not bad to have in every one’s life but because of these things, marriage is the main thing that is at risk when someone has those things in life. One’s has to choose either marriage or success that has achieved in life.

Throughout the history of mankind, men and women have learned to live together in families, communities, and societies. This has been accomplished by a unique bond: marriage. A common view of marriage is that it is a harmonious bonding between two people. This view is largely depicted in literature, however, this view is misleading. Although marriage is designed to create happiness, it often leads to the opposite. In works such as Trifles by Susan Glaspell, Their Eyes were Watching God by Zora Hurston, “The Story of An Hour” by Kate Chopin, and “She rose to His Requirement-dropt” by Emily Dickinson, marriage enslaves women because it establishes a power hierarchy that restricts women.

Anne and Ted have been married for 25 years, dated for 10 and have 3 kids together. On the outside it will seem they have the picture-perfect marriage. One day he packed up his things and left their home and marriage of over 30 years with no explanation what so ever. Couples think the world of their spouse and build their life around them only to be disregarded when it suites them. Spouses are left thinking what had happened that made their partners walked out on them after all they have been through and sacrifices both may have made. It is then they realize they do not know their partners as they thought they did. “The Storm by Kate Chopin is a story about a couple seemed to have a perfect marriage. During a storm, she cheats on her husband with her ex-lover. Then they returned to their normal lives as if something major did not just happen, not telling neither of their partner about the adultery they committed. In Ernest Hemingway’s “Hills Like White Elephants a couple is having a heated argument about the woman going for an abortion and how that would ease the tension in their relationship that the pregnancy had brought. Calixta’s cheating in “The Storm” sheds light on Hemingway's “Hills Like White Elephants” helping me understand people’s willingness to take risks to sustain relationships, how difficult humans are to please and how unknowing people live in lies.

In the year 2018, at times, marriage couple’s seek for advice in order to prevent a divorce. Two women, Nora and Laura, sought out for guidance in order to keep their marriage intact Nora Helmer from “A Doll House” by Henrik Ibsen, is a woman who immensely cares for her loved ones, she would go as far as to commit a crime. Laura Wingfield from “The Glass Menagerie” by Tennessee Williams, is also a very caring and kind person. She tries to be the peacekeeper in her family. Though she is nice and caring, she is also extremely shy and sensitive. Nora and Laura have much in common; there are both compassionate women who would do anything for their loved ones and for each other. However, Laura’s

Family relationships, especially involving spouses can create difficulties and challenges for one or the other, in-turn could create an impact in their relationship. Kate Chopin’s “The Story of an Hour” and Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper” are short stories centralized on the view of two married women, the challenges they endure in their relationships and coping with their spouse. Women wanting to have freedom, having to deal with an illness and their position in the household can create such challenges for spouses.

Does the loss of a child result in the end of a marriage? In Margaret Atwood's, The Resplendent Quetzal, a short story about a dysfunctional couple Sarah and Edward, who are both dissatisfied with not only their lives but with one another we learn about their individual stories of how they handle grief and change. Atwood uses imagery, symbolism and character analysis to help the reader understand the struggle each character faces with the death of their child and the realization of their distaste for one another.

Marriage will always have its share of imperfections, subtle and explicit, but the espoused in Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, and Gillian Flynn’s Gone Girl suffer from a bundle of particularly damaging marital complications. While their imperfection as couples arise in similar manifestations, the effects their dysfunctionalities and desires for dominance bring upon the surrounding world are the differentiating factors. From simplistic cheating on one spouse to the promised demolishment of the other, each text exemplifies a set of matrimonial struggles and identifies the consequences of each. Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf, The Great Gatsby, and Gone Girl illustrate the theme of how imperfect marriage results in a discontented atmosphere and a struggle for superiority, which develops into a series of devastating repercussions that affects not only the couple, but also the characters they are involved with.

Uncovering the harsh realities of marriage in the 20’s, nothing like the fairy tale dream it is sought to be.