In her short story, “Regret” author Kate Chopin not only talks about the regret of a decision, but also the emotional complexity of a modernized woman in the eighteen hundred. The story's protagonist; who is an independent, capable, stubborn woman, that by the age of fifty has not repented the decision of not marrying. Now that a different circumstance developed, she no longer sees marriage as she used to. She believed that she could do anything without the help of a partner, and never thought of what would had it been with someone next to her. Mamzelle Aurlie is a hypocrite, she judged Odile and her children before getting to know them. Mamzelle Aurlie thought that Odile was a weak woman and a terrible mother, because of the way she left her
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Through imagery, the author constructs a sole remote meadow with a small home “Mamzelle Aurlie stood upon the gallery, looking and listening. She could no longer see the cart; the red sunset and the blue-gray twilight had together flung a purple mist across the fields and road that hid it from her view. She could no longer hear the wheezing and creaking of its wheels. But she could still faintly hear the shrill, glad voices of the children.” Here it details the main setting where the most important events happened, the unwelcoming of the children, the place where she got to be with them and the place where she got to see them leave. It also explains the emptiness of the place after the children left. For a modernized woman like Mamzelle Aurlie, she couldn’t see that being modern doesn’t only mean to be independent and to stand for what she believed. Her thoughts towards Odile and her children are hypocrite, thinking that a woman who depends on her family can’t do anything right but she is wrong. Odile is more of a modernize woman than Mamzelle Aurlie by taking care of her four children alone. Mamzelle Aurlie thoughts did not change until later in the story, but things didn’t change there. Mamzelle Aurlie was still a lone woman, who believed that the company of her dog was just
Through imagery, the author constructs a sole remote meadow with a small home “Mamzelle Aurlie stood upon the gallery, looking and listening. She could no longer see the cart; the red sunset and the blue-gray twilight had together flung a purple mist across the fields and road that hid it from her view. She could no longer hear the wheezing and creaking of its wheels. But she could still faintly hear the shrill, glad voices of the children.” Here it details the main setting where the most important events happened, the unwelcoming of the children, the place where she got to be with them and the place where she got to see them leave. It also explains the emptiness of the place after the children left. For a modernized woman like Mamzelle Aurlie, she couldn’t see that being modern doesn’t only mean to be independent and to stand for what she believed. Her thoughts towards Odile and her children are hypocrite, thinking that a woman who depends on her family can’t do anything right but she is wrong. Odile is more of a modernize woman than Mamzelle Aurlie by taking care of her four children alone. Mamzelle Aurlie thoughts did not change until later in the story, but things didn’t change there. Mamzelle Aurlie was still a lone woman, who believed that the company of her dog was just