When I Have Managed To Make My Wife Summary

Kate Chopin's “The Story of an Hour” and Gail Godwin’s “A Sorrowful Woman” are similar pieces of literary work. Both stories offer a revealing glimpse of extremely unhappy marriages due to being forced into stereotypical roles. Both stories portray women, who are trapped in their marriages and trapped in their socially expected matriarchal characters. They are identified by their role as a wife and mother.

Micro- short stories have a way of telling a story in a very short and subtle manor by using a lot of symbolism and powerful sentences. This style of writing has a way of leaving the reader with a meaningful message. Two micro-short story authors that have progressed in many fields of literature, just once being micro-stories are authors Molly Giles’ and Pamela Painter. After having read Giles’ short story “The Poet’s Husband” and Painter’s short story “The New Year” the reader is left with a feeling of discomfort and depression for failed relationships. In both stories there is a lack of connection between the couples for they have started to grow less fond of each other and farther apart from what was once happiness. The correlation that ties these two relationships into a similar distress is an on going affair between two very important

The flow of this narrative may seem jumpy or disconnected and illogical to some but to others who share a similar perspective the details seem like a flood of memories. Every detail and element is timeless and independent of the others while at the same time holding a deeper connection shared with all of the others. Each detail holds a value that isn’t noticed at first by others just like each of the items she mentions holds a value to her and her family but is lost on her husband who doesn’t share the same sense of home with her.

In “A Doll’s House” play people can see how authority can destroy a happy marriage. This play is about a husband (Helmer) who imposes his authority over his wife (Nora). At the beginning of the play this couple seems to be a perfect couple, a lovely and caring husband and lovely, loyal and caring wife and mother, but inside their customs is just an unhappy couple. Nora doesn’t have her owns opinion or thoughts she must leave behind her husband decisions and beliefs. Everything begins to fail when she decides to do something without her husband knowing, Helmer get sick and Nora trying to save his life borrows money from Krogstad. When everything comes out to light, Nora meets the real Helmer the one who’s cruel, deaf, and insensitive.

It is like a bad dream” (Gilman 294). As this sentence continues, the physical abuse in it gradually gets worse, representing the the constant damage society does to female role. Even if women attempted to get up from a hit, society will just hit back harder. Comparing it to a bad dream, Gilman implies that this pattern is never-ending. For the narrator, it felt like an eternity imprisoned in her bedroom with nothing to think about except for the yellow wallpaper. Through the use of figurative language, Gilman enhances the desire to break free of confinement. Gilbar and Gubar comment upon the story: “this paper surrounds the narrator like an inexplicable text, censorious and overwhelming as her physician husband, haunting as the “hereditary estates” in which she is trying to survive”(Gilbar and Guban 125). Gilbar and Gubar uses similes to say that the paper is incapable of being explained, especially towards the narrator. However, because it is very difficult to explain, it gives the narrator and opportunity to work her brain and figure it out herself. The narrator’s husband is described as “censorious” and “overwhelming” which also describes men’s role and power, very critical and overpowering. Because her husband resembles men in societal norms, the narrator is forced to bend to his every will. One of which being to stay confined in her bedroom with no work

This story revolves around the theme of a girl named ‘Jig’, who gets in a conversation between her husband/boyfriend in a place that symbolises the theme of the story and conversation that is being held. The genre of this short story is very much similar to the genre of a how simple short stories are told and it has managed to create a real conversation which is set in a fairly realistic place, although the entire scenario is fictional.

To begin with, this story launched with the exposition, where we learned about the two main characters, their lives, and the setting. M. Lantin, a chief clerk in the office of the Minister of the Interior, “became enveloped in love as in a net” (Maupassant 67) after meeting a young woman, Madam Lantin. She was beautiful and every man dreamed of having her. Then, the two married shortly later, and they lived joyously for six years. The only two things that M. Lantin did not absolutely adore about his wife was “her love for theater and her passion for false jewelry” (Maupassant 67). Additionally, the exposition explained how the wife was in charge of the money in the house and how “they really seemed to live in luxury” (Maupassant

“The Yellow Wallpaper” and “The Story of an Hour” portray similar and different structured themes. “The Yellow Wallpaper” written by Charlotte Gilman, is a short story where the marriage of a middle-class couple doesn’t seem to run so smoothly due to the husband abruptly diagnoses his wife with a “nervous depression” disorder. The husband would go on forbidding her from leaving the room and all things she loves to do.“Story of an Hour” written by Kate Chopin is truly a short story as a young lady, Mrs. Mallard, who has a serious heart condition. Unfortunately when is comes to the families surprise when they find out Brently, Mrs. Mallard’s husband had died. Mrs. Mallard locks herself away in her room but soon discovers a feeling of freedom rush over her she finds out that a feeling of freedom has rushed over her. It’s a shame the feeling of freedom she has longed for is cut short when she leaves the room. In these two short stories there are two major themes. They are the lack of independence and the subordination and oppression of women in marriages.

This clever story is crafted down to the smallest detail - every word and expression implies something, often has a second meaning and so manipulates the reader's opinion. The factor that makes this story even more

Story of an hour conveys the feelings of many married women who may not be entirely unhappy in their marriage yet feel restricted in some way. They feel that they could have done so much more had they not married, if they had been without all these restrictions. They could spread their wings and fly to their favorite destinations if they had stayed unmarried. Marriage despite all its so-called bliss is still a very restrictive union that clips a woman's wings sometimes because of the children, sometimes because she is constantly reminded of her wifely and motherly duties and sometimes simply because her husband wouldn't approve.

Wives are pretty spectacular aren’t they? Many women from the 70’s probably thought so, but the men? Did they appreciate what their spouses were doing for them? Some felt they didn’t. One of those women was Judy Syfers, and she decided that the only way to tell her husband, and all husbands, how underappreciated wives were was to write about it in her piece “Why I Want a Wife.” Syfers’ crafty use of irony and repetition creates her favorable, yet satirical, standpoint on why wives are so outstanding.

A Doll’s House, by Henrik Ibsen, portrays a young married woman, Nora, who plays a dramatic role of deception and self-indulgence. The author creates a good understanding of a woman’s role by assuming Nora is an average housewife who does not work; her only job is to maintain the house and raise the children like a stereotypical woman that cannot work or help society. In reality, she is not an average housewife in that she has a hired maid who deals with the house and children. Although Ibsen focuses on these “housewife” attributes, Nora’s character is ambitious, naive, and somewhat cunning. She hides a dark secret from her husband that not only includes borrowing money, but also forgery. Nora’s choices were irrational; she handled 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”

Henrik Ibsen’s “A Doll’s House” is a play about a young wife and her husband. Nora and Helmer seem to be madly in love with one another and very happy with their lives together. Yet the conflict comes into this show when Nora brags to her friend Ms. Linde about how she had forged her father’s name to borrow money to save her husband’s life and how she had been secretly paying off this debt. Helmer finds out about this crime and is furious, until he finds that no one will ever know about it. This entire conflict is written to bring to light the ridiculous social expectations demanded of both women and men. Ibsen expertly leads the audience into accepting that these social expectations are foolish and wrong. The audience

Plot: The narrator is telling a story about his wife friend who is blind man name Robert. Robert wife Beulah has recently died due to cancer. The narrator wife wants Robert to spend the night at their house. The narrator wife used to work for Robert, and she is explaining the relationship between Robert and her. The husband does not like Robert because he is blind. At the end of the night Robert shows the husband how it feels to be blind and changes his views about being blind. The main incidents are dinner with Robert, and the husband, wife, and Robert smoking marijuana, and later after his wife goes to sleep husband and Robert watching a show about Cathedrals’, and lastly the drawing of the Cathedral with the husband eyes closed. The Climax of the story would be when the narrator is attempting to draw the cathedral with his eyes closed. The ending of the story narrator and Robert connected. The narrator learned not to judge someone based on what he heard, and fear.