The Wife 'And The Broken Heart'

Paul Newman once said, “People stay married because they want to, not because the doors are locked” (74). There is no such thing as the perfect relationship, however, being involved in a healthy relationship is essential for a person to feel valued, safe, and happy. Unfortunately, in the situation of Kelly Sundberg’s personal essay “It Will Look Like a Sunset,” and Kate Chopin’s short story “The Story of An Hour,” include extreme examples of unhealthy relationships. The essay “It Will Look Like a Sunset,” shares painful experiences of Sundberg’s physical and emotional abusive relationship with her husband Caleb, while “The Story of an Hour,” shares a rare reaction of a married woman, Louise Mallard, who explores her emotions cautiously when hearing about the death of her husband. Each woman faces their own prison created by their husbands. The two marriages represent the figurative meaning of doors being locked in a marriage. Both pieces of literature convey the theme of confinement by using the literary devices of foreshadowing, imagery, and conflict.

People deal with loss and grief differently. However, such behavioral patterns could differ between different gender groups as their collective norms and values may differ. As dealing with loss and grief is an inevitable part of our experience, we must acknowledge those differences and learn to work with our partners in life. In the short story “Marzipan” the author Aimee Bender examines the roles loss and grief played in the two genders. While loss and grief usually cause passive and incommunicable emotions among men, women opt for disguising their emotions. Those stereotypical views about gender distinction, are supported and enforced by the traditional family structure reconstructed by the

Breaking Tradition the story of women’s roles. The author of this very detailed story, compared to “family affairs, gives its readers Incite on how women were apart of something so dangerous that change the lives

I’ve come across a diverse amount of relationships in my life, and some have made an influence on my life forever. Just like in “The Wife’s Story”, the Colin Kapernick article, and “Without Title”, these characters explore the adversities of relationships they have to go through. The relationships we have with others can affect our lives in an undesirable way. In the short story, “The Wife’s Story” by Ursula K. Le Guin, the wife is too blinded by love to see that her husband is lying to her.

The author agrees with the idea of women as victims through the characterisation of women in the short story. The women are portrayed as helpless to the torment inflicted upon them by the boy in the story. This positions readers to feel sympathy for the women but also think of the world outside the text in which women are also seen as inferior to men. “Each season provided him new ways of frightening the little girls who sat in front of him or behind him”. This statement shows that the boy’s primary target were the girls who sat next to him. This supports the tradition idea of women as the victims and compels readers to see that the women in the text are treated more or less the same as the women in the outside world. Characterisation has been used by the author to reinforce the traditional idea of women as the helpless victims.

Women are taught from a young age that marriage is the end all be all in happiness, in the short story “The Story of An Hour” by Kate Chopin and the drama “Poof!” by Lynn Nottage, we learn that it is not always the case. Mrs. Mallard from “The Story of an Hour” and Loureen from “Poof!” are different characteristically, story-wise, and time-wise, but share a similar plight. Two women tied down to men whom they no longer love and a life they no longer feel is theirs. Unlike widows in happy marriages Loureen and Mrs., Mallard discover newfound freedom in their respective husband’s deaths. Both stories explore stereotypical housewives who serve their husbands with un-stereotypical reactions to their husband’s deaths.

Women in history stood best known for a less ascendant sex in the mid-nineteen centuries. Since times have gone by women had fought for their equal rights and freedom. There had been many stereotypes, where the women were considered as a slave to the men’s because the women’s position was to be the homemakers and a mother to their children, while the men’s are out socializing with others. If they were not happy with the marriage, they cannot just walk out or complain because a women role is to endure all these pains without a word coming out of their mouths. Two out of the ordinary short stories, “The Yellow Wallpaper” and “The Story of An Hour,” mostly focused on a women’s dilemma that they faced near the 19th century. The two main characters in the short stories show some resemblances in some ways, but both characters portrayed them in different ways of how they dealt their sorrows in their marriages.

In everyday life, a relation is always identified as trust and support. In this novel, a relation between a husband and a wife is shown in a different way. Min, one of the characters in the story, is shown losing her mental stability and is living with her two children. She did not have any contact with her husband in few years and neither did he try to contact

Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper” and Sinclair Ross’s “The Painted Door” are both stories about women protagonists who feel emotionally isolated from their husbands, who both go by the name John. Ann in “The Painted the Door” and the wife whose name may or may not be Jane in “The Yellow Wallpaper” are women who deal with emotional isolation. Emotional isolation is a state of isolation where one may be in a relationship but still feel emotional separation. In these two stories, both women feel emotionally isolated from their husbands due to lack of communication. In both stories, lack of communication results from one individual failing to disclose their true feelings and instead he or she are beating around the bush, hoping the other party will know what they want. If both parties directly disclose their desires and feelings to one another, there would be a better understanding of each other which as a result would help save marriages. This paper will look at how both women lack communication, how they both their approach their emotional isolation differently, and how their failure to communicate to their husbands and their approach, results in the failure to save their marriage. “The Painted Door” and “The Yellow Wallpaper” are stories that show how both women protagonists are emotionally isolated due to their failure to communicate their feelings and desires to their husbands. Instead of direct communication to their husbands, the women find other

In reading the short stories, “Clever Manka”, by an Anonymous Writer and “The Story of an Hour”, by Kate Chopin, readers learn about both Manka and Mrs. Mallard. The stories show how each of the women interact in their relationships with their family, friends and most importantly their husbands. While each of these women have a few similarities like age, and marital status. They couldn’t be more different from one another.

In the two stories “Desiree’s Baby” and “Lamb Of The Slaughter” the author portrays a selfsame story that shows a wife and a husband who adored one another, but doesn't stay like that transiently. Both story have complications and explication. The theme of the story is love is something you don’t take for granted it takes a strong emotional couple to keep stable

The women in this story are dominated by their husbands. They are forced to complete arduous and bland house work all day. In this story the women’s lifestyle after marriage is portrayed as insipid and bleak in comparison to their once vibrant lives. The main theme that ties these tales together is marital oppression.

Throughout one’s life, it’s literally stress failure and loss which many of us can overcome but it also. Defines them as a person and a human being/individual. There’s no wonder, therefore. Numerous authors, screenwriters and poets have therefore chosen relationships as a focus for their texts. The novel and film of Looking for Alibrandi, written by Melina Marchetta and directed by Kate Woods respectively, Are two texts mainly focus on relationships as core components driving the plot. Good morning/afternoon Mr Appleton and fellow class mates students of saint Laurence’s Collage I would like to thank you for inviting me here to deliver my option on looking for Alibrandi. This analyse is the relationship between Josephine Alibrandi and Katia

The principal characters from the short stories, ‘’The Lady with the Dog’’ by Chekhov, and ‘’Hills like White Elephants’’ by Ernest Hemingway are dishonest with the one they love and with themselves, they hide their real feelings about the person they are with, they are living an untruthful relationship, and as a couple they lie to each other. In ‘’The Lady with The Dog’’, Dmitri Gurov and Anna Sergeyevna , they are both unhappily married to other characters, and after a while they engage in an affair, hiding the love they are feeling to each other, just because they do not want to break up the relationships they have, they do not want more responsibility of what they have with each other. The same matter happens in the ‘’Hills Like White Elephants’’, The American man block out his real feelings about the girl and instead of saying the truth, he lies to her, telling her he loves her, when he does not, just because he wants her to do what he desires, to abort the baby they are having. The American man is not ready for a formal relationship and he does not want any responsibility with the girl or anyone, he just wants to live his free life with no complication. The girl knows the American man’s intention, but she does not faces him and instead, she tries her best to keep him, doesn’t matter if he loves her or not, she is going to do everything he wants her to do, to be with him. Our point in this paper is to discuss have three different things, in the first place we are

In conclusion, the wife in the Wifes Lament is miserable and longing for her husband. She may never see or hear from her husband again and that is just causing her more pain. She needs to try and go on with her normal life, though that is unlikely to happen because she truly loves her husband and wants the