Happiness can be defined as a short-term feeling, such as a reaction to an enjoyable movie or an excellent song. It can also be the happiness one experiences while with a group of friends or while being intimate with a loved one. For others, happiness can be achieved through the purchase of material goods or receiving gifts. (I'm sure a brand new Chevrolet Corvette would make us all happy.) Unlike instant happiness, true bliss is something that is quite difficult to achieve. The contentment that one could feel in his or her life is usually a series of successes and small individual periods of happiness (usually worldly related) that give the impression of overall contentment. The perfect pleasure that one gets just by living out his or her life by being fully content about the present, totally secure about the future, and happy with the past is true bliss; but unfortunately, as evidenced by the stories, "Astronomer's Wife, "The Chrysanthemums", and "Hills Like White Elephants", true bliss is almost impossible to achieve. The characters in these stories don't feel very content in their individual situations and often wish for better lives to help suffice the emptiness they feel.
Sometimes you know you are unhappy, but you
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Ames would return to her dreary life and wretched husband. just can't figure out what it is that will make your life content. Sometimes in the night in the wagon there--'
Elisa's voice grew husky. Her breast swelled passionately… 'Maybe I know,' he said. The metaphor used in the story to differentiate the two men's personalities is that the lowly, hardworking plumber stayed underground with pipes while the dreaming, wishful astronomer worked on mountaintops looking up to the sky.
Joy in one's life is quite hard to obtain. "'Then what will we do afterward,'" Jig asks. He was a dreamer with his head in the clouds.
"She was kneeling on the ground looking up at him. Jig has more mixed feelings about the abortion. These components are necessary to achieve a life full of true happiness, and as shown by the situations in the three aforementioned stories, true bliss is almost impossible to obtain. True bliss for her just didn't seem plausible. The discarded chrysanthemums made her realize that being able to be one with nature and sleep under the stars every night would remain only a dream. You go on living like a machine - doing the same dreadful deeds everyday.
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