Everyone on Earth’s purpose is to be beatific. People live their lives so the outcome will satisfy them for years to come. They don’t long for sadness or sit down and don’t fix what makes their lives invidious. Similarly in Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton, the main character suffers from unhappiness in his marriage and finds someone else who makes him happy, ultimately putting himself first before other people. In The Age of Innocence, a man is set out to marry a woman who he doesn’t love, resulting his life, having regrets and unhappiness because he didn’t act on his love. In A Pair of Silk Stockings by Kate Chopin, a woman is poor and finds a tiny hope of happiness that changes things for her. It is appropriate for emotional happiness to be
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Ethan finds happiness when he is with Mattie, and when he spends all night with her “he remembers that he had not even touched her hand” (Wharton 41). Ethan finally feels happiness because he confides in Mattie. His wife Zeena never made him happy, but he tried to put up with her out of pity. When he finally thought about his feelings he finally chose his own happiness and decided to be with Mattie. When he put his emotional security in front of Zeena’s he was finally happy. If the cost of hurting someone was what it took to buy his happiness he finally got it. When Mrs. Sommers went to go exchange her stockings “ she was not thinking at all. She seemed for the time to be taking a rest from that laborious and fatiguing function and to have abandoned herself to some mechanical impulse that directed her actions and freed her of responsibility” (Chopin 48). When Mrs. Sommers put herself before others, she finally felt happy. Her emotional security is more important than others. Instead of living a life in poverty, she feels free. She doesn’t have people constantly looking at her like she doesn’t belong, but instead she fits into her community. She rewards herself and treats herself like any ordinary person. When these people fought for themselves, they finally gained
Ethan finds happiness when he is with Mattie, and when he spends all night with her “he remembers that he had not even touched her hand” (Wharton 41). Ethan finally feels happiness because he confides in Mattie. His wife Zeena never made him happy, but he tried to put up with her out of pity. When he finally thought about his feelings he finally chose his own happiness and decided to be with Mattie. When he put his emotional security in front of Zeena’s he was finally happy. If the cost of hurting someone was what it took to buy his happiness he finally got it. When Mrs. Sommers went to go exchange her stockings “ she was not thinking at all. She seemed for the time to be taking a rest from that laborious and fatiguing function and to have abandoned herself to some mechanical impulse that directed her actions and freed her of responsibility” (Chopin 48). When Mrs. Sommers put herself before others, she finally felt happy. Her emotional security is more important than others. Instead of living a life in poverty, she feels free. She doesn’t have people constantly looking at her like she doesn’t belong, but instead she fits into her community. She rewards herself and treats herself like any ordinary person. When these people fought for themselves, they finally gained