Loneliness And Unambition In The Painted Door By Sinclair Ross

When an individual attempt to achieve self-satisfaction and eager for freedom, despite there would be a sense of loneliness, it often results in frantic guiltiness due to the self-absorbed ambition. The short story, the Painted Door by Sinclair Ross is about the fluctuating emotions of a farmer’s wife, Ann, while her husband was away from home during a double wheel blizzard. In the story, Ann has significantly reveals that she cannot deal with the restricting life as a wife of an unambitious and dull-witted farmer. She was extremely desired to discover the undermined personality of herself and to live a life that has hopes. The line “ it was something of life she wanted, not just a house and furniture; something of John, not pretty clothes …show more content…
These quotations illustrate the internal frustration of Ann toward John and the true desire that she longs for. John’s steadfastness to do all the drudgery by himself and his refusal to hire a helper bring stagnant to their lives. Besides, due to his utter work-instinct, he was always immersed in his works and left Ann alone. Since the house was constantly permanent with a sense of abandonment, Ann’s rebellious thoughts accumulated. And it made her more sensitive and lust for sympathetic feeling.
When Steven arrived, he reveals his appealing arrogant which initiates a fine-draw coquetry with Ann, who is suffering in the misery loneliness. As he aware that Ann is desolated and depressed, he induces Ann to pay attention on him and persuades her that John will not risk his life to overcome the blizzard outside. The line “ but in his smile now, instead of the insolent appraisal that she feared, there seemed a kind of warmth and sympathy” proves her desire to have calm and shelter, “ an understanding of the unfulfilled woman”. These citations demonstrate Ann’s changes of attitude toward Steven and the conspiratorial atmosphere in between them. She falls into the furtive smile of Steven