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Gail Godwin's A Secret Sorrow

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The excerpt "A Sorrowful Woman" can be regarded as a sequel to A Secret Sorrow. Both stories involve the women having internal battles that they go through, it's as if Gail Godwin, the author of "A Sorrowful Woman", intended for her short story to be a twisted sequel of A Secret Sorrow. Faye's crisis happens before her marriage and Godwin's character starts to have problems after her marriage and having a child. In Van der Zee's story, A Secret Sorrow, she encourages marriage, while in Godwin's short story it questions the concept of marriage. In A Secret Sorrow, Faye felt worthless and incompetent because society places women in a certain role and Faye could not fulfill a part of that role. She endured failure and her sorrow seemed to run

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