The Final Essay
Compare and Contrast
In the short story “The Story of an Hour" by Kate Chopin and the “The Necklace" by Guy de Maupassan, the main characters are females and house wives. While they have many things in common, one character experiences death, while the other character experienced a life lesson.
The theme of love marriage and life set motion for quilt, freedom and lust in two short stories “The Story of an Hour” and “The Necklace” written by Kate Chopins. “In the story of an hour” by Kate Chopins. In the story the author depicts women lives in the early 1900”s. Unlike the roles women play in society in the mulleins. The two main characters in these short stories were domesticated house wives, who were both oppressed from society. …show more content…
Mallard from “The story of an Hour” and Madame Loisel 's in “The Necklace” both experience conflict within there societies. While Mrs. Mallard strives to surpass her role as a repressed women. Madame Loisels main conflict is based on her materialistic ways because she is a women who values material love over simplicity. To help you understand how both of these women have conflict with their societies I will like to discuss how Mrs. Mallard story is taken within an hour. In this hour she depicted a roller coaster of emotions, which lend me to believe she was a women who was happy. In the story “The Necklace” Madame Loisels daily life is a little more in depth. Her husband while modest and humble, he is comfortable with his life but Madame Liosels is not because she wanted to be rich in her …show more content…
Madame Loisel portrayed her marriage to be unhappy because she was unappreciative of her husband and she took advantage of his love. For example. Madame Loisel husband invited his wife to a Ball, he was so excited because he knew it would make her happy. Nevertheless, Madame Loisel was sad, she felt she needed a beautiful gown to wear for the ball. Of course being a wonderful husband he offered to give her 200 dollars of money he was saying to buy the gown. The story basically ended with Madame Loisel’s borrowing a necklace from a friend; that was later lost. Due to Madame Loisel’s selfishness her and her husband spent the next ten years repaying a debt that was spent on a replica necklace. In retrospect, Madame Loisel was a lucky women because he husband stuck by her side and helped her repay the debt. Do I think it made her happy to know her marriage was good, no because she defined life as what you have not who you’re with. “The Story of an Hour” Kate Chopin’s depicts Mrs. Mallards in a happy marriage, but when she received knowledge that her husband passed away she was devastated but, in turn while she pondered the death of her husband she found freedom. This was quite confusing to me, Mrs. Mallard received devastating news that her husband passed away from a train accident, and she was distraught. She
Compare and Contrast
In the short story “The Story of an Hour" by Kate Chopin and the “The Necklace" by Guy de Maupassan, the main characters are females and house wives. While they have many things in common, one character experiences death, while the other character experienced a life lesson.
The theme of love marriage and life set motion for quilt, freedom and lust in two short stories “The Story of an Hour” and “The Necklace” written by Kate Chopins. “In the story of an hour” by Kate Chopins. In the story the author depicts women lives in the early 1900”s. Unlike the roles women play in society in the mulleins. The two main characters in these short stories were domesticated house wives, who were both oppressed from society. …show more content…
Mallard from “The story of an Hour” and Madame Loisel 's in “The Necklace” both experience conflict within there societies. While Mrs. Mallard strives to surpass her role as a repressed women. Madame Loisels main conflict is based on her materialistic ways because she is a women who values material love over simplicity. To help you understand how both of these women have conflict with their societies I will like to discuss how Mrs. Mallard story is taken within an hour. In this hour she depicted a roller coaster of emotions, which lend me to believe she was a women who was happy. In the story “The Necklace” Madame Loisels daily life is a little more in depth. Her husband while modest and humble, he is comfortable with his life but Madame Liosels is not because she wanted to be rich in her …show more content…
Madame Loisel portrayed her marriage to be unhappy because she was unappreciative of her husband and she took advantage of his love. For example. Madame Loisel husband invited his wife to a Ball, he was so excited because he knew it would make her happy. Nevertheless, Madame Loisel was sad, she felt she needed a beautiful gown to wear for the ball. Of course being a wonderful husband he offered to give her 200 dollars of money he was saying to buy the gown. The story basically ended with Madame Loisel’s borrowing a necklace from a friend; that was later lost. Due to Madame Loisel’s selfishness her and her husband spent the next ten years repaying a debt that was spent on a replica necklace. In retrospect, Madame Loisel was a lucky women because he husband stuck by her side and helped her repay the debt. Do I think it made her happy to know her marriage was good, no because she defined life as what you have not who you’re with. “The Story of an Hour” Kate Chopin’s depicts Mrs. Mallards in a happy marriage, but when she received knowledge that her husband passed away she was devastated but, in turn while she pondered the death of her husband she found freedom. This was quite confusing to me, Mrs. Mallard received devastating news that her husband passed away from a train accident, and she was distraught. She