Walking through a spacious green field, filled with beautiful dandelions; I see her… but not like I was anything special to her. I feel peaceful; knowing that I saw her for the last time. I closed my eyes and then… darkness. She was too late. In this response paper the stories “The Moths” by Viramontes, and “The Story of an Hour” by Chopin, have both the interesting theme of death or mortality, I will discuss the common theme by using tone, symbolism, and setting of these two stories. The tone for “The Moths” create a sense of toughness, the granddaughter has a strong personality, the writer describers her as a little girl that acts like nothing bothers her. In a quote from “The Moths”, “The chiles made my eyes water. Am I crying? No, Mama
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“The story of an hour” has the symbolism of death throughout the whole story, it starts when the characters received the news that death has come for Mr. Mallard, he died in a train accident; unexpectedly and without preparation. Not like Mrs. Mallard that has her days counted. The rest of the story we read it in Third Person Limited Omniscient only to find out Mr. Mallard cheated death after all, in a description from the story “He stood amazed at Josephine's piercing cry; at Richards' quick motion to screen him from the view of his wife.” and Mrs. Mallard dies instead, a quote from the story, “she had died of heart disease--of the joy that kills.”. In “The Moths” the main symbolism is obviously moths. At first, I believe the moths are linked with healing connecting the part of the story about how the grandmother in a quote in the story, “made a balm out of dried moth wings and Vicks and rubbed my hands, shaped them back to size and it was the strangest feeling.”, but it is strangely linked to death, since the wings are dried out and I can’t visualize anyone pulling wings from a breathing moth. The quote from the story that is most vividly for me and it symbolizes death is when the moths were coming out of “abuelitas” mouth, “Small, gray ones that came from her soul and out through her mouth fluttering to light, circling the single dull light bulb of the bathroom. Dying is lonely and I wanted to go where the moths were” It represents how the moth’s departure from “abuelitas” dead body while carrying her soul
“The story of an hour” has the symbolism of death throughout the whole story, it starts when the characters received the news that death has come for Mr. Mallard, he died in a train accident; unexpectedly and without preparation. Not like Mrs. Mallard that has her days counted. The rest of the story we read it in Third Person Limited Omniscient only to find out Mr. Mallard cheated death after all, in a description from the story “He stood amazed at Josephine's piercing cry; at Richards' quick motion to screen him from the view of his wife.” and Mrs. Mallard dies instead, a quote from the story, “she had died of heart disease--of the joy that kills.”. In “The Moths” the main symbolism is obviously moths. At first, I believe the moths are linked with healing connecting the part of the story about how the grandmother in a quote in the story, “made a balm out of dried moth wings and Vicks and rubbed my hands, shaped them back to size and it was the strangest feeling.”, but it is strangely linked to death, since the wings are dried out and I can’t visualize anyone pulling wings from a breathing moth. The quote from the story that is most vividly for me and it symbolizes death is when the moths were coming out of “abuelitas” mouth, “Small, gray ones that came from her soul and out through her mouth fluttering to light, circling the single dull light bulb of the bathroom. Dying is lonely and I wanted to go where the moths were” It represents how the moth’s departure from “abuelitas” dead body while carrying her soul