The story, A Sorrowful Woman written by Gail Godwin (1971), was an appealing story. In this short story I noticed a pattern which appeared continually throughout the story. The pattern creates an image in your mind and an ambiguous feeling about the situations and characters in the story. The pattern which I noticed is one in which the author did not use any proper names for the characters in the story. The main character in the story is referred to mostly as she or her. Only occasionally is she called “mommy” and when this happens, it creates a negative feeling. The woman’s husband was referred to simply as “the man” or “husband.” At one point in the story the author wrote “The husband undressed her.”(pp 38) Other characters were also not
