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In “The Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin the author depicts the ideology of marriage in a negative view through the main character. This ideology ripples throughout the story, bringing to life the hardships and bondage that wives often unknowingly endured during the late 1800’s. The writer demonstrates this commonly unseen side of marriage through the use of three main literary elements. By using irony the author enables her audience to view marriage in an unconventional way for the time period…

Infidelity can cause psychological and sociological issues. In Jhumpa Lahiri’s short story “Interpreter of Maladies” and “The Lady with the Dog” by Anton Chekov these issues don’t effect only the family, but the cheater themselves. Megan Sweeney and Allan authors of “Infidelity, Initiation, and the Emotional Climate of Divorce: Are there Implications for Mental Health?” points out that “[a]dultery is one of the many key factors on a stressful dysfunctional family.”(297). And also stated by…

The story of an hour, by Kate Chopin is a good short story about a woman, Mrs. Mallard and and her husband, Mr. Mallard. Mrs. Mallard is known to have heart problems so her sister was very careful when telling her about the death of her husband. "But she saw beyond that bitter moment a long procession of years to come that would belong to her absolutely" (Chopin 517). This information shows that Mrs. Mallard is hiding something from everybody, she acts distraught around her friends and family,…

The Verbal Style of the Brownies The short story “Brownies” by ZZ Packer is about a group of Brownie Scouts and their experience at camp Crescendo. As the story unfolds, the group of African American girls tries to escape the watch of their evangelical troop leader so they can beat up troop 909 for calling Daphne a “nigger”. It is unclear whether troop 909 actually said that, however; the Brownies carry through with their plan and confront troop 909 in the bathroom. To the Brownies ' surprise,…

#1 In the short story “Eveline” by James Joyce, the first paragraph helps to introduce the theme of not taking the opportunities presented and letting life just go on without enjoying it. In the short story, it states “She was tired.” because she was living her life as she always had; without any real excitement. Instead of getting ready to leave to go somewhere more enjoyable, she was sitting there “watching the evening invade the avenue.” She was doing what she always has:…

Emily Grierson, a Complex Character with a Complex Reality. In the short story A Rose for Emily by William Faulkner, the main character, Emily, is very interesting. She lives in an alternative reality where the rules of the world are not applied to her existence. There is a principle in philosophy that states that the way a man thinks is strongly influenced by the way a man lives. This seems to be the case of the protagonist of the story. Emily Grierson seems to be mentally disturbed, but…

the society was male dominated, women had no power or freedom to express themselves. Women’s ideas were considered good-for-nothing whereas whatever a man said was always considered right. Examples of such oppressions can be clearly depicted in the short story, “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. The author wrote this story to change the perspective of men about women and their important status in the society. During the entire story, the narrator, a woman, is not given a name…

when they found the body in her bedroom, but it made sense in an odd way. How she looked: As a young girl she was “slender figure in white”, and it is implied, by the way her father drove suitors away that Emily Grierson was once pretty. In the short story, however, she…

death decides when it is going to take somebody’s life; No matter how much a person tries to resist death’s decision. The title “Because I Could not Stop for Death” applies also to the story, and it shares the poem’s same meaning. The father, in the short story, tries with all his power to save his son from falling downhill, but all the attempts do not help. His son survived just because the death decided that the child’s time does not come yet. Indeed, the title of both the poem and the story…

Seven Types of Ambiguity What is a short story? When thinking of a short story what comes to mind? A short story consists primarily of three key elements. These elements are characterization, conflict, and theme. Shirley Jackson’s story, “Seven Types of Ambiguity”, is a very good example when thinking of a short story. The story consists of all three elements characterization, conflict, and theme. In her story, Shirley Jackson creates an atmosphere of the unknown. A.M. Homes said, “The…