Low visibility by Margaret Murphy
The short story “Low Visibility”, written by Margaret Murphy in 2008, is about the main character called Laura, who is in an unhappy marriage with her abusive, dominant, husband, John.
Laura, who is an anonymous person most of the time of the story, lives a depressing life. She is under the thumb of her husband, which is why she has become an insecure, wordless, obedient wife. You get the information that she used to be an energizing, ebullience and spirited girl “who could set a room into laughter” and that is the reason why john, at the first place, wanted to marry Laura. He wanted to absorb that good humour of hers, but however he squeezed “the joy out of her until there was none left”.
In their marriage …show more content…
The short story is structured as if there are two completely different stories at the same time, the one with the marriage couple and the one with the riots. But at the end of the story the two stories combines, which is where the main character makes one of her biggest life …show more content…
Harmony out of chaos was what the tiger eye created. She never had the courage to go against her husband, but at that moment, when he was lying on the ground, he was already weakened and that's when she had the chance to get her life and identity back, which her husband took from her years ago. Through the whole story she was nameless and her name was only mentioned at the last sentence, which means that she at the end of the story got her own identity back and that's when she developed into an independent woman and she broke free.
The title of the short story “Low Visibility” is used to describe the riots and Laura.
Laura is described as invisible, because her dominant husband John overshadows her.
“I've been invisible all my life”, says a man of the riots, who Laura meets at the end. The riots are invisible for the society, which is why they protest to become more
The short story “Low Visibility”, written by Margaret Murphy in 2008, is about the main character called Laura, who is in an unhappy marriage with her abusive, dominant, husband, John.
Laura, who is an anonymous person most of the time of the story, lives a depressing life. She is under the thumb of her husband, which is why she has become an insecure, wordless, obedient wife. You get the information that she used to be an energizing, ebullience and spirited girl “who could set a room into laughter” and that is the reason why john, at the first place, wanted to marry Laura. He wanted to absorb that good humour of hers, but however he squeezed “the joy out of her until there was none left”.
In their marriage …show more content…
The short story is structured as if there are two completely different stories at the same time, the one with the marriage couple and the one with the riots. But at the end of the story the two stories combines, which is where the main character makes one of her biggest life …show more content…
Harmony out of chaos was what the tiger eye created. She never had the courage to go against her husband, but at that moment, when he was lying on the ground, he was already weakened and that's when she had the chance to get her life and identity back, which her husband took from her years ago. Through the whole story she was nameless and her name was only mentioned at the last sentence, which means that she at the end of the story got her own identity back and that's when she developed into an independent woman and she broke free.
The title of the short story “Low Visibility” is used to describe the riots and Laura.
Laura is described as invisible, because her dominant husband John overshadows her.
“I've been invisible all my life”, says a man of the riots, who Laura meets at the end. The riots are invisible for the society, which is why they protest to become more