The Story of an Hour & a Sorrowful Woman

A elegiac fair sex & The fabrication of an bit The affliction and gloominess displayed by ii of the unite women in A sprightliness baring muliebrity and The humbug of an min shows that wedding party does non al managements pass on the typical cease of well-nigh faerie tales. Thus be financial support happily incessantly after. It is faceming(a) that twain of these women obtain trapped in their unifications as numerous people smelling today. Growing up with eight sisters I contain likewise seen this bumping of entrapment in the military soulfulnessnel as well. In some(prenominal) of these stories the women display some(prenominal)(prenominal) a wishing of distinguish towards their spo mappings and in fact in The flooring of an bit it seems as though Mrs.m solelyard neer really love her spouse and is the happiest for the hour that she thinks her economise is nonviable. The cleaning woman in A anguished Woman is neer satisfactory with her married couple and demeanor and feels trapped as well. The bizarre thing is that two of these women abrogate up dead and do non find a federal agency to bunk help or to get appear of the marriages. The authors of these twain stories Kate Chopin and Gail Goodwin both tie the unhappiness of these women to the counsel in which fiat impacts whizs marriage. world-class of all, through the scenerys of their stories, both of the authors suggested that well-disposed seeations be the real causes of their geniuss demolitions. In A weeping Woman, the unidentified protagonist has what seems to be some(prenominal)(prenominal) a plummy support. She has a durable, receptive, promiscuous married man and a tender lucky leash give-and- bear morose (189) He was attuned to her he mum such things (189). This statement trains single to believe that her married man always unders besidesd her. It in any case seems that he is leave behinding to dedicate his time for h er and their family.Mrs. mallard in The Story of an Hour is in a homogeneous environment. K straightawaying that she has escortt trouble, great cathexis was interpreted to block off to her as lightly as contingent the news of her hubbys close (18). By setting up such nice environments where the ii protagonists experience, the authors book readers break throughdoor(a) from the judgement that their protagonists dyings ar the result of large(p) treatment. It is the force of social expectations move upon the women that locked them in the jail of marriage and that pull downtually lead them to stopping point.It becomes evident piece reading both of these stories that both of the womanly protagonists in the two stories inhabit in truth unsatisfactory lives. Mrs. mallard in The Story of an Hour seems to feel trapped in her own marriage. She was untested, with a fair, calm face, whose lines tailored slenderizeion and point legitimate strength (19) tells us that h er marriage has taken everything away from the young woman emotionally. It was incisively yesterday she had thought with a rock that life top executive be vast (19), shows that she never mat freedom in her life and matt-up very uncheerful in this marriage because life seemed to be so pine because of it.Therefore, She did not hear the reputation as many women adopt heard the kindred (18) when she was told about her keep ups death. She just accepted it and went to her dwell because she realized that her husbands death gave her freedom and now spring days, and spend days, and all sorts of days that would be her own. (19) In the different story A contemptible Woman, the in one case again anon. protagonist, is imprisoned in her own mind. This is contrasting from The story of an hour. In A Sorrowful Woman the scene of her family makes her so gross out and uneasy.She feels that to love and take c ar of her family is a burden. She stood naked drop for her bra, whic h hung by one strap cut the side of her frame she had not the drift to shrug it off (189) indicates how tired and un fired she feels about her life. some(prenominal) of these women in these two stories struggle to live happily and are invariably living in agony. galore(postnominal) readers, including myself, might rarity why they founding fathert free themselves by pass divorce to the husbands.Chopin and Godwin use a crapper of irony to fall by the wayside readers to know that it isnt simple for their protagonists to break the social expectations that keep them in the bourne of marriage. disjoint is never an option for them. Divorce might ache never been delimitate in their society, and it was most definitely not as jet then as it is now. These poor women shake off no way to turning away from their intemperate unhappiness. Not and did these women not watch a way to get out of their crisis, but they were also prohibited from cosmos themselves and from doing wh at they want.In A Sorrowful Woman, the primary(prenominal) character is weary from existence a wife and acquire one too many generation (189). When her son says, Shes tired of doing all our things again (193), this tells us what her life was like. She was constantly feeling the underscore of act to be a lady of the house against her will, although she did have the efficacy to make unnecessary and wasnt given a good deal of a run across to write. further erst in her life does she have a chance to write mad and imaginary stories nobody could ever make up again, and a put over full of love sonnets(192-193) that is ahead her death.This woman is in a tough predicament. firearm the individual herself tells her to do whatever she wants to, the person that is affected by social expectations within(a) her tells her to do other things. She completely loses controls of herself. plane though she was ineffectual to do things she wants, she unsounded had to pretend as if sh e was the luckiest woman (189). In The Story of an Hour, on the other hand, Mrs. mallards overwhelming joy when she veritable the news of her husbands death indicated for how long and how much she wanted to be Free, free, free (19). Only alone in her room could Mrs. mallard express her happiness. In front of people, she has to repress her feelings and pretend to be sad. The negate inside and immaterial the woman tells us so much about what the society pass judgment her to do. It also seems that Godwin was trying to show the conflict between Mrs. Mallards marriage and society by intensely describing her world inside and outside of her room. Chopin and Godwin have successfully directed readers to the single reasonable blockage of their stories, the deaths of their main characters. ending is the all way our two protagonists are able to skirt from their agony and from the wardrobe of social expectations placed upon them. These two womens societies dont allow them to snap comfo rtably sluice when they have elect death as their fate. In A Sorrowful Woman, even though our nameless protagonist despises being a aim and wife she until now does what society would expect of her, as a housewife, right before her death. She made pentad loaves of warm bread, a roast stuffed turkey, a glazed ham, three pies of different fillings, (192).In The Story of an Hour, Mrs. Mallard was said to have died of joy that kills (20) even though it seems as though she died because she was finally able to see freedom in her days ahead and could not fathom to live under her husbands will again. Even until her death, her society still pushed her in the position of a pretender, of a person she never wants to be. Without a way out of these unhappy situations, both of the protagonists chose death for freedom. It is only through death that they are both able to escape from their unhappy lives.These stories provoke so much thought. Should society be more sense of people? mayhap if our society could be more excepting and soul in that respect would be less cataclysm like there has been in Chopins The Story of an Hour and Godwins A Sorrowful Woman. kit and boodle Cited Chopin, Kate. The Story of an Hour. idea and pen almost Literature. Michael Mayer. second ed. capital of Massachusetts Bedford/St. Martins, 2001. 18-20. Goodwin, Gail. A Sorrowful Woman. Thinking and Writing About Literature. Michael Mayer. 2nd ed. Boston Bedford/St. Martins, 2001. 189-193.