In The Story of an min we see a cleaning lady react quite oddly to the unexampleds that her husband was killed in a train crash. As the narrator tells us: "She did not hear the fib as many women would have heard the same, with a paralyzed softness to accept its significance" (1). The woman feels freed by the event. She sits and appreciates the trees "all aquiver with the new spring life" after hearing the news (2-3). When the woman finally makes it home she drops dead at the sight of
In The Hand, a newlywed bride lies next to her husband and begins to notice how masculine and brutish he is, oddly his hand. At one point she notes, "It's so big! It is really bigger than my whole head" (197).
She grows more disgusted at these features and begins to be repulsed by her husband. However, the next morning when he is handing her scrunch up she refuses it because of his threatening hand. Knowing this might set off his brutality, she kissed the very(prenominal) feature that repulsed her. She knows he has the upper hand, so to speak, in this relationship.
Chopin, K. The story of an Hour, 19894: 1-4.
her husband whose train has not crashed. However, she does not do so from seeing a supposedly dead man alive, but rather because she understands she will have to go back to her oppress life with him.
Mansfield, K. Miss Brill, 182-1189.
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