Does every story have a conflict in it? Most stories I have read has conflicts in them. The conflict makes the story more interesting, and it draws the reader into the story, making them want to read more to find out how the conflict ends. To add to that, there is conflict everywhere at work, at home, and even in one’s family. We all have conflict in our lives, so did the characters in “A Conversation with My Father,” “The Story of an Hour,” and “Eveline.”
To begin with, in Grace Paley’s story “A Conversation with My Father,” there are different kinds of conflicts, but I want to talk about the conflict to please her father. The father says “I would like you to write a simple story just once more” (Paley 232). He wants her to just look at someone and just write what happens to them. She agreed to write a story, so she wrote about her neighbors. When she went and read …show more content…
Eveline had to do all the things a mother would do because after her mother passed away, she had to take over the cooking and cleaning. Her father became more violent after her mother passed. So when Eveline met a man who was going to take her away from all her worries, and she would be happy because “Frank was very kind, manly, open-hearted” (Joyce 4). As the time was getting closer for her to go away with Frank, she would remember all the good times they had. “She remembered her father putting on her mother’s bonnet to make the children laugh” (Joyce 5). She also remembered a promise she made her mother before she died that she would “keep the home together as long as she could” (Joyce 5). When it was time to go away with Frank, she stood in the crowd at the station. Her conflicts about leaving her father, and her promise to her mother keep her from going with Frank. Eveline felt conflicted to please her family and her
To begin with, in Grace Paley’s story “A Conversation with My Father,” there are different kinds of conflicts, but I want to talk about the conflict to please her father. The father says “I would like you to write a simple story just once more” (Paley 232). He wants her to just look at someone and just write what happens to them. She agreed to write a story, so she wrote about her neighbors. When she went and read …show more content…
Eveline had to do all the things a mother would do because after her mother passed away, she had to take over the cooking and cleaning. Her father became more violent after her mother passed. So when Eveline met a man who was going to take her away from all her worries, and she would be happy because “Frank was very kind, manly, open-hearted” (Joyce 4). As the time was getting closer for her to go away with Frank, she would remember all the good times they had. “She remembered her father putting on her mother’s bonnet to make the children laugh” (Joyce 5). She also remembered a promise she made her mother before she died that she would “keep the home together as long as she could” (Joyce 5). When it was time to go away with Frank, she stood in the crowd at the station. Her conflicts about leaving her father, and her promise to her mother keep her from going with Frank. Eveline felt conflicted to please her family and her