The Hands In Gabrielle Colette's The Hand

Although he was confused about what happened, he was sure of one thing and that was “that the hands must be to blame”(252). Wing perceives his hands as a symbol of his perceived guilt, or a manifestation of his fears. They symbolize critical turning points in his life, good and bad. He makes them the core of his actions and who is, allowing them to take control of his life. By personifying Wing’s hands, Anderson makes the consequences of their actions the focus point of the story.

The contrast between the wife and the narrator is shown through their different attitude toward Robert’s visit and also the lost of his wife. Robert is an extremely important person for narrator’s wife who suffers in her previous marriage and even commit suicide. The communication between the wife and Robert

I found the husband interesting because of the way he completely loathes his wife's birthmark. His hatred seems to be a symbol of people who are not content in their wonderful situation. The husband says that the wife's face would be flawless and beautiful if it were without the crimson birthmark. He loathes this birthmark so much that he says it reminds him of sin and earthliness, opposed to perfection and heavenliness. I find interest in the husband's character because of his hate towards a little thing that can be covered with two fingers. This obsession makes me think that the husband character is a representation of people who complain about a small imperfection, inconvenience, or issue in their life.

The wife is a very bold woman, who is resilient and holds her beliefs tightly to her. Even in the way she expresses her lines, it suggests that she takes her opinions as facts and that she is not willing to hear opinions other than her own. Her voice also reveals that she does not pity those that she deceives. She is ruthless and does not really care for the well

The masculine hand that lingers over the girl’s mouth signifies that she is being forced to be silent. Victim’s voices are taken away as they are beaten, threatened, bribed, coerced and blackmailed into giving up their soul and body. Would you suffer for the rest of your life if you had to choose between your freedom and your families’ lives?

The short story, “The Story of An Hour”, written by Kate Chopin, the author symbolizes marriage in a negative way to show that life is only about gain and not love. Mrs. Mallard in the story is viewed to be very happy and joyful that her husband has died. All this information was attained from her gestures and body language. He was overjoyed because she found an advantage of her husband dying which was that she could be an independent woman and that she could live her life without being told any orders or to be bossed around. The author described her mind in a very interesting way, she used the life outside her window as lively and energetic like her mind however everything else around her was dull and lazy.

This image could have negative and positive connotations: negative connotations could be that of manhandling, control, and the suffocation of life, as hands are an extremely powerful image: ‘Man alone has a hand. He uses it as a tool, as a symbol, and as a weapon’. The idea of hands as dangerous could reflect the concept that humans have the power to destroy life with ease, and that whilst we could hold something so fragile in our hands and safeguard it, if humanity applies unrestricted pressure our world will break. Alternatively, it is arguably more accurate to say that Atwood means to evoke positive connotations through this imagery, such as nurturing and protection. These implications are supported by the images Atwood uses in conjunction with hands, ‘The word hand anchors | your hand to this table, | your hand is a warm stone’(26-28).

She highlights the point that the roles of a wife are unfair to the role of a husband and that there is an obvious difference, inequality, between the roles of a husband and a wife. Exhausted by disparities in the household work and by the fact that the work done by a wife goes unnoticed, she daringly and sarcastically exposes her feelings. With this in mind, she demonstrates her point by giving all the household chores that are commonly performed by wife. “I want a wife who will have the house clean, keep mu clothes clean, ironed, mended, replaced when need be.” Hence, she establishes the scenario that women daily live and starts to argue against these

This passage is extremely important to the book because it reveals the real reason for the main character’s nervous habit. This nervous habit Aza has of digging her thumbnail into her hand is constantly seen throughout the story. It ties to her internal conflict of mental illness that she struggles with throughout the novel. The habit is one of the primary physical expressions of her mental state. Explained in this passage is the the full backstory behind the habit, the reason being that Aza started to convince herself she was real. Furthermore, Aza worries that she is not in control of her life. Throughout the Book Aza has many feelings and reactions that the reader views, however, the reason behind them never fully makes sense until this

When the wife sees her husband’s hand clearly for the first time, she becomes horrified; not just because of how ugly and disformed his hand is, but because it makes her wonder what else she doesn’t know about him. It scares her to think that she’s married this man who she thought she

This image provides not only the dignity of mother’s love and sacrifice to her kid, but also gender ideology. Common ideas about gender are articulated in the way that women are weaker and more passive than men. Specifically, while her child is staring at the camera, her sight is to the ground with a tired face. Loss of focus in her eyes and her exhausted face show her weakness. The gender ideology is also expressed through the contrast to a shadowy man. The man with black jacket in the image keeps standing and handles tasks, while the mother is sitting on the stonewall with her kid. This contrast behavior between male and female also shows the opposed primary task according to gender. The opposite behavior according to gender involves the

The narrator imagines his wife is a different person with the scab on her face, Charlie imagines he is the narrator by dressing like him, and perhaps even the narrator’s wife imagines that Charlie is her husband. We can also see that the novel is formatted in a way in which we can see the narrator’s entire thought process, seeing as he starts off talking about himself, allowing us to think that it is a story about himself, however he then ends it with a story about a friend, having little to do with the rest of the narrative, besides a common thread of infidelity and replacement. The narrator also seems to value certain objects in his mind, fetishizing them to the point in which he almost seems to obsess over them. This is true for both his queen sized bed and the scab that forms on his wife’s face. This obsession overcomes the narrator and seems to inspire him both creatively and sexually. If the story had been written in a more traditional form, it would be quite difficult to understand the sense of obsession mixed with the uncertainty behind his fetishism that the postmodern writing highlights so well with its almost “stream of consciousness”

The representation of marriage and gender parts portrayed in the America short stories the Necklace by Guy De Maupassan The Short story of a Hour by Kate Chopin are short stories which uncover many viewpoints seen in the human intuitive convictions. These stories demonstrate how the male characters assume the primary part in marriage as the dominant ones and their partners, the females taking up the weaker parts. The women in these stories are portrayed as unsteady person who are inclined to fantasy, feeble and precarious consequently they are general human creatures who are incapable. By analyzing the significant themes, style and contents in these two stories particularly on the female psyche, one has the capacity see what matters which exists between the genders parts particularly inside the connection of marriage. The major artistic hypothesis which can bests elucidate this idea is the one on psychoanalysis. With the point of accomplishing the right psychoanalysis of the significant characters in these stories, the originals of the mental methodology will first be talked about and the personal significance it has on these two short story authors.

The submissive role of the female in a marriage or relationship is a common problem in American society. This role has become so common that in fact it is now expected of the female. This male dominance goes as far back as the human race, to the beginning of relationships and marriage between the female and the male. Although America has advanced in equal rights and women's advances in the work fields, this role of submission and passivity is still present among our society. The men are raised to lead and take charge meanwhile, women are taught that their place is to keep peace. Women find safety in allowing the male to dominate the relationship and because the submissive role is automatically expected women fear changing the situation. Many authors illustrate this role of the sexes and portray some reasons and situations that are common in our society. In Nathaniel Hawthorne's story The Birthmark two young newlyweds: Aylmer and Georgiana sweet love story turns into a nightmare as Aylmer becomes obsessed with removing a small birthmark on Georgiana's cheek. Georgiana who is deeply in love with her husband was willing to do whatever it takes to please him and ended up allowing her husband to perform surgery on her which resulted in a tragic death. This relates to the story The Yellow Wallpaper by Eileen Curtis when the main character Isabel cuts her wrist as a way to try and save her marriage after finding out her husband Kevin cheated on her with her best friend. Both

At this very moment the husband, either willfully or inadvertently, turned the wife’s own sexual desire against her. This is clear in that she describes the resulting shame as “an indelible tattoo mark” (Rifaat, 1996, p. 257) that would eventually lead to her sexual and emotional resignation, made evident in that fact that she questioned herself and calling her demands “unreasonable” (Rifaat, 1996, p. 257). The reader is further left with the impression she has cut herself off emotionally from her husband (perhaps to endure the act of being used as a sexual device) when later on during the act of intercourse, she indifferently states that her toenails need to be cut.