Secrect Sorrow Sorrowful Woman
Kate Chopin's "The Story of an Hour" and Gail Godwin's "A Sorrowful Woman" are both similar pieces of literary work in that both stories offers a revealing glimpse of extremely unhappy marriages. Both Mrs. Mallard and the unnamed mistress in A Sorrowful Woman, called the wife, seem to reveal a problem or possibly a disease which is plainly inherited through the institution of their marriages. They are so unhappy with the lives they lead and the people in them, they seem to drive themselves to there own death. "The Story of an Hour" seems to pick up in the middle of an on going battle of Mrs. Mallard's feelings towards that of her husband Brently Mallard. Because of his kind and loving nature one can not come to grasps with her hatred towards Mr. Mallard and why she feels it. There is little introduction of the husband, Brently, which leaves any thought or opinions of him completely to the imagination, while in "A Sorrowful Woman" the wife seems to be a very selfish and self-centered person who can care only for herself. Godwin describes mostly all characteristics about the husband and wife when the wife tells her husband that the sight of himself and the child made her so sick she did not want to see them ever again.
When the husband and child return and discover the food and fresh laundry, they immediately run to Mrs. She then falls to her sister's waist causing them both to descend down the stair with Richards waiting at the bottom. For the wife in "A Sorrowful Woman" loneliness and solitude is all that she wants out of her role as a family member. They rush to see her and open the door only to see her lifeless in her bed. She says to him crying, "I am the luckiest woman". After informing her husband that she wants to be alone and away from him and their child, she is put into bed where she stays most of the story. Josephine delivers the dreadful news to Mrs. For many days the wife remains in her room alone and to herself, only to appear sometimes to wonder aimlessly throughout the house when her husband and child are away. She cooks dinner for her husband and child to last them many weeks, two weeks of fresh-laundered sheets, 5 loafs of bread, and hand-knits two matching sweaters. She finally came out and "carried herself unwittingly like a goddess of Victory" (14). As for the other distant wife on her last day of living, she withdraws from what had become her domain for one last noble accomplishment. Mallard's death after a few short moments of morning (12). The day after everything takes place, he brings her breakfast in bed and lets her lay to rest until it grew dark again.
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