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In her book “Building Fiction” she explains the differences between a short story and a novella, providing several examples including the short story “Carpathia”. In her writing, you could feel the bitter-sweetness of her parent’s experience. Specially, her mom. It also points out a big controversial issue in society, gender

The mother started the story not wanting her children or even really caring for them, they had a full time nanny and the mother had no interest in them. "She had bonny children, yet she felt they had been thrust upon her, and she could not love them. They looked at her coldly, as if they were finding fault with her. And hurriedly she felt she must cover up some fault in herself." She was dull to the way she felt and was negative towards and about her husband because she believed him to be unlucky and the reason for all the money problems they were having. She was negative and dark the whole time. She hardly had anything positive to say and it stayed that way until she finally received a great deal of money and that made her feel adequate again as a family. She changed her way of being and started to care more about her son and what was happening with him. She wanted to leave places to check on him and concer herself with how he was and if he was okay."Two nights before the Derby, she was at a big party in town, when one of her rushes of anxiety about her boy, her first-born, gripped her heart till she could hardly speak. She fought with the feeling, might and main, for she believed in common sense. But it was too strong. She had to leave the dance and go downstairs to telephone to the country." Her mood only changed after she got money and felt that she was good enough again, she valued herself on the outside look not what was really important. This just goes to

In conclusion, the narration in the short stories the drover’s wife, the loaded dog and little miss sunshine, prove highly important in involving the responder in a range of experiences by providing the techniques and storylines for the responder to gain an insight

This theme clearly presents itself to readers through the diction of the characters and the mental decline the narrator endures throughout the plot of the story. The narrator of this text is a sufferer of postpartum depression, an illness that can develop in women who have miscarried or given birth, this type of depression stems from a feeling of loneliness or emptiness, do to no longer carrying a

The characters in the story repeat over and over “I want the baby”(Carver 8-20). The reader can perceive the carelessness and selfishness of the characters, as well as the shattering truth that the unfit parents subconsciously decide to put themselves before the baby. The single sentence says it all, four words that will send chills down anyone’s spine. When the author chooses to write the repeating sentence, his intention surfaces when one looks further into its meaning. Not only does the reader find the parents’ interests and their pronoun physically before the baby’s. When one reads the literature, it becomes more and more apparent that the argument revolves around the baby, and not truly for or about the infant. At the end of the short story, the man and woman become increasingly aggressive and begin to endanger the safety of the child. Carver writes, “She grabbed for the baby’s other arm. She caught the baby around the wrist and leaned back. But he would not let go. He felt the baby slipping out of his hands and he pulled back very hard” (19-20). Many should find Carver never announces the name of the baby. In this fashion, the child shifts into an object, and no longer a human being.The words the author chooses to signify the child, ‘the baby’, confirms the infant only as

The story begins with an epigraph “Once upon a time there was a wife and a mother one too many times,” (Godwin, 39). The epigraph gives a clue on the theme of the message. In addition to that, it also sets the tone of the entire story. The qualities of the husband, the kid and the girl are ideal in a way. They depict a family that is flawless. Cooperation and love is of paramount importance in any relationship. Godwin outlines that disaster in marriages are brought by the clashing between societal demands and individual differences. However, the sorrowful woman is fed with love and understanding from the husband and the kid but she fails to appreciate their efforts. The husband does all that is within his reach but all the efforts end up fruitless. Cooperation in marriage stands out as one of the main themes in the story. Cases of cooperation and lack of it are discussed

While visiting his mom in the hospital, Russell is overcome by the tragic reality of the present, of the ability that life possesses to inflict much cruelty. During his early infrequent visits, he attempts to divert his mother 's senility and return her to the present. Hence, when he sits with her in a hospital, surrounded by the stench of illness, he relates much better to her situation and wonders where his fierce and confident mom vanished. So forth, it is in this whitewashed facility that it dawns on him that in essence, his mom had lost her happiness way before her mind had wandered and it irks him that he had not perceived that. Ironically, his mother, who is sitting in the same environment of doom, is oblivious to her bleak surroundings and is able to return to a place of serenity; her glorious past with wonderful memories. In contrast, Tillie Olsen sets a scene of a mother ironing in a warm and cozy environment with the happy banter of children in the backdrop. Thus, She portrays an image of a loving and prosperous rearing, of offspring. Yet, the opposite holds true and the same kid that is raised in this wonderful environment was not protected in her early years. In fact, Emily did not always have a stable home with parents who were available to her. In addition, the time frame of post depression and war era entwine the two stories. Both occurrences illustrate the harsh times that both

The wife is the main focus in this story and as the story continues she begins to realize that her sickness results from her controlling husband. She learns that John is crippling her health and understands his reasoning behind why he chose the “nursery” to place her in. The wife is a dynamic character who gains insight as the story progresses. In the beginning of the wife’s diagnosis, her husband forbids her from working until she is well again. The wife writes in her journal, “Personally, I believe that congenial work, with excitement and change would do me good” (489). This begins a trend of the wife’s disagreement with him. Instead of listening to John’s “professional” advice, she challenges his statement within the safety of her journal. The journal is a way to express herself freely, although John believes it does her more harm than good. The wife continues to write proclaiming “John would think it absurd. But I must say (write) what I feel and think in some way- it is such a relief” (494)!

One lady stood up and said, “Oh babies come here. I’m Eileen. Do you need anything? Let me get you some food or water. Dane, let me see that wrist. You can travel with our family.” Amy and Dane walked towards her. She created a splint for Dane and fed them. Later, Amy and Dane learned that she had lost her all of her four children so she had an extra tent and food that they could use. Amy and Eileen set up the spare tent for them to them to stay in.

Narrator by John's wife...The rent of a of an ancestral house for summer brings uncertainty for John's wife. Suffering of temporary depression, John as a physician takes a loving care of her from this uncontrolled emotional condition. She feels bad from the dependency of John, who limit her sometimes from different social and creative activities such as writing. Also, he does not believe in her condition. John, stated that a nervous patient like she with a great imagination and fantasies would not deserve to satisfy all her desires in order to achieve a better emotional state. She is here to recover after the depression, which bring the birth of her children. In the room upstairs of the house, a old yellow wallpaper expresses a disturbed scenes in her

Both mothers show the paths of motherhood and how each mother feels a certain way about the paths they chose to go down. One of the mothers carried her child and the other mother didn’t carry her child she had an abortion. While both of these paths seem different they both end in the same way. Each woman becomes a mother. They are a mother whether they gave birth to a child or not. The one mother has a baby at the end of her nine months. She feels like she had no choice that once she was pregnant she had to see it through. The other mother made the choice to end the child’s life but in doing that she still lives with this child in her heart. She is always wondering and thinking about this child and what it might have become. They both have a type of stigma around them and feel kind of negative toward their paths. The mother that carried the baby felt trapped and like she didn’t have a decision, like she was forced to carry a baby and be a mother. The mother that had an abortion doesn’t have the burden of having a child to take care of and to carry for nine months but she had a life full of regret. Every day she thinks about the child and how she would have raised it and it causes an overwhelming feeling of sadness and

My analysis of this story makes me come to the conclusion that the author intended this piece to be the story of a repressive medical treatment forced on the narrator by the narrator’s husband. Another very real theme this revolves around is the very clear negative side effects of the forced treatment the narrator has to undergo and how it worsens her condition.

Do you know what it’s like to live with just one of your parents? Well in both of these stories both of the girls do. One lives with her dad and the other lives with her mom. In the story Confetti Girl in paragraph 6 she says that her dad doesn’t cook the same as her mom did. She probably misses her mom and doesn’t really connect with her dad. In the story Tortilla Sun Izzy has a baseball that connects her with her dad it brings baack a memory of her and her dad. In the story her mom is leaving for 3 months and Izzy has to go with her grandma in New Mexico because she has no dad to watch her at home.

People tend to relate readings to personal experiences of theirs to become connected to the story. Some authors will do the same with their stories, as including details from their lives draws a connection to their writing, in turn enhancing the quality of their writing. Good quality writings will feature details from the author's history, as the author wants to draw the reader in by having them relate to what is at hand. “A Family Supper”, “Story of an Hour” and “Everyday Use” are examples of past experiences from the author present in their writing.

In the short stories, “I Stand Here Ironing” and “My Father sits in the Dark”, there are misunderstandings between the parent and child. In the story “I Stand Here Ironing”, the conflict is between the narrator and herself. The mother is struggling with regrets over the desire to give her daughter, Emily a good life. She regrets that she was not the best mother to her daughter because of unfortunate events. She claims she did what she had to do in order for the both of them to survive.