The Sorrowful Woman By Gail Godwin

Though fulfilling love, happiness and trust in a relationship can be comforting, couples often are unsuccessful in finding or keeping the love that their relationship need; even if issues may interfere within the relationship, couples should find a way in working through their problems. Once a couple's happiness, trust and love have been fulfilled, they can experience unconditional love. Although they would need to make every possible step to heal their relationship, if and when their relationship breaks down, there is still much they can learn. With this stated this idea holds opposing views among the two females in A Secret Sorrow and "A Sorrowful Woman."

Family acts as a support in many ways. Since everyone contributes to the household, the Dadi treats everyone equally and when money is asked for any important purposes, the Dadi will provide the money no matter how expensive it is. Also, Dadi mentions that the family can bear anything, can suffer any lost because they suffer together. However, if one moves out, he is alone and have to provide solutions for himself. In the family, everyone works together; the dadi and dada work and make decisions together. Children do not have to work. However, if they leave the household, the daughter-in-law will have to manage everything on her own.

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.

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In Ryan T. Anderson, Robert P. George, and Sherif Girgis’s groundbreaking nonfiction novel, What is Marriage? Man and Woman: A Defense, the researchers demand a clear definition of marriage in its “perfect” form by personifying the two sides. The main argument centers on a revisionist view of marriage versus a conjugal view. While the book does not utilize characters like a fictional novel, this nonfiction piece showcases the revisionist side and conjugal side to likes of two dueling foes in an adventure novel. This idea is known as personification. This literary device is used to portray objects, elements, and ideas of a story with human attributes. The revisionist “character” takes the form of the modern definition of marriage as it applies to the emotional and sexual bonds between individuals. The revisionist point of view is personified by the wedding of Partilla and Riddell. The example couple an executive and an anchor met in their children’s pre-k classroom—married to other people. After five years, the Partilla and Riddell didn’t want to “‘deny their feelings and live dishonestly’…[so] they chose to abandon their spouses and children” (Anderson, George, Girgis 3). The story presented “sees marriage as the union of two people who commit to romantic partnership and domestic life: essentially an emotional union,

The family is viewed mainly as the nuclear family as in mother, father, and children although the family structure had changed over time with the extended family, single parent families and on word. The family structure’s main functions are reproduction, education, and the economy. Without these functions society on a whole would not exist. In the case of education we place women in the role of raising, nurturing, and educating the children with in the home instilling values and norms while the father figure took on the role of being the financial provider, and providing security for the family. The family structure plays a very important role as through reproduction the replace members, who have dies, Socialization where they educate children on norms and values and how to carry themselves out in society as functional individuals providing emotional, psychological and physical care for family members.

Marriage for the sake of fulfillment relates only to societal norms and not into romance or cohesive partnership. During the 19th century in Britain, the emotions were not driving the matrimony wagon, but rather wealth and class defined the game of marriage. Charlotte Lucas tells Elizabeth Bennet, “I am not a romantic...considering Mr. Collins’s character, connections, and situation in life...my chance of happiness with him...entering the marriage state” (109). Charlotte displays the elements of being fulfilled, connections and situation in life. “Marriage has always been her object: it was the only honorable provision for well-educated young women of small fortune” (107).

The male is generally the head of the family. Caring for children and all housework is a women’s

And while the decades advanced, the underlying message stayed the same; “a successful marriage requires hard work and personal sacrifice, particularly on the part of women” (Kuby 279). Consequently, creating longer-lasting matrimonies, even in those cases where injustice existed (Kuby 279). On the other hand, reflecting the mentality of ‘if something was broken, it would be fixed, not thrown away’, since divorce was not an option (Kuby 279). All of these facts show how marriage did not always have a bright side to it.

Each individual in this world surely have a dream to get married once they grow up, especially with the one they love. Even though today’s society accepts unmarried relationship where couples live together and have babies out of wedlock, in the end marriage is what they hope for as a symbol of their relationship. Clearly, marriage is a must in human’s life. This necessity influences humans to create stories that end with marriage and live happily ever after. Pride and Prejudice, written by Jane Austen, is also one of those stories that fulfils this criterion. In this novel, Jane Austen described various marriages which differ from each other. Instead of love, there are marriages that are

Celebrating twenty-eight years of marriage seems to be a pretty impressive feat in today’s world. Not to mention all the couples who have been together for forty, even fifty years. Forty to fifty percent of marriages end in divorce in America (Kazdin, 1). Some say that that is a myth, that it is not actually factual. However, thorough research proves that it is unfortunately true. From popular culture’s negative influence, to how marriage could go all wrong, and finally to why it sometimes just can’t stay together, marriage and divorce go hand in hand. Divorce is shockingly common and marriage is losing its appeal.

The idea of a perfect marriage is not often represented in literature and films. As a matter of fact marriage is more than often portrayed as an obstacle to personal freedom, self-realization, and therefore, ultimately, happiness. Examples of literary work of which both portrait marriage as an obstacle to happiness are “American Beauty” and “The story of an hour”. In the course of this essay i will reflect up on the thesis statement, and compare the two pieces of literature. Replace this last statement (mostly “stage directions”) with a clear argument (thesis statement) about the two works; just rearrange the previous sentence, e.g. American Beauty and “The Story of an Hour” both portray marriage as an obstacle to happiness

Growing up love is something almost every woman looks forward too. But fantasy versus reality is not something women compares life to every day. As young girls they often dream of growing up being in love, marrying the man of their dreams, having a fairy tale wedding, and living the life as it was often read in the books they may have read as little girls. Marriage is often thought of being in a relationship full of love and trust and is perfect when in reality no relationship is perfect and neither are the people. In Adrienne Rich’s, “Living in Sin,” she quickly finds herself finding marriage completely different then what she may have thought it was before and realizing the sin of her boyfriend and herself not loving each other while finding herself doing routinely housework.

The wife role is centered more around the children and the household. That she is the most informed about what is best for her children and will explore all options for them. They do not usually let their children go to a babysitter or daycare because they feel that they can nurture their children best. Also, the mothers consider motherhood to be highly valued and is considered the most important thing. The mother knows all that is going on with their child and has the ultimate authority in their education and attends to all their academic needs. (Japanese Family)

At one point or another we will all experience the euphoric highs and devastating lows of love. For most of us, the spell of love will culminate into marriage. It only seems natural since it has been a cultural norm for hundreds of years. There is even a scientific consensus that we are biologically compelled to find another mate. However inherent love is to us, marriage is an abstract notion conceptualized by human philosophy. It is humanity’s effort to manifest the unification of two people and to be recognized by society. Unfortunately, it seems that we have to rethink the validity of marriage in the 21st century. Divorce plagues society today with the probability averaging out to fifty percent in the United States. The consequences of divorce generally devastate whole families, destroying financial life long accomplishments, and even spur us in deep states of depression sometimes leading to suicide. However conflicting marriage is with modernity, to older generations the institution of marriage is a necessity of life, but is not fair to men, and is often a disservice to our youths.