Conflict In Richard Cumyn's Short Story 'Ladies' Ball

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Jason Ahn “Ladies’ Ball” Essay on conflict In Richard Cumyn’s short story “Ladies’ Ball’, the author uses an internal conflict to main character to show that someone who realizes what they have lost will learn more about themselves. The former baseball player named David is overwhelmed one night when his wife, Joan joins a game of ladies’ ball with their community members. David wants to protect himself by convincing her not to play baseball however, things do not go perfectly. The conflict is within David himself and is shown through many different methods: thoughts, words and actions. As David tries to get away from baseball, his internal conflict is shown by his thinking. By the time David’s family moved “Clayton from the city”, a…show more content…
Few minutes after David went back home to put his daughters in bed, he drove to the baseball field. “Not along Main Street to the Community Centre as [his] [family] had walked,” he drove through the “cul-de-sac that ended where the third base line met the ball park fence [and] parked the car in the shadows and turned off the engine and the headlights.” It is not that David came back to the field to watch how he’s wife is playing; he is beginning to realize what he has forgotten in the past and realizing himself. David tries to remember what he has done forgotten about himself. Few minutes after the game ended, he went “at the pitcher’s spot [and] stopped, squatting to sift the dusty sand through his fingers. In the dark and quiet heat, the buzz of the game still alive at the edges of perception, he felt he could disappear altogether.” From the past of his life after he quit playing baseball, he has now realized what he liked to do as a hobby. Because it was a long time ago from him playing baseball, he couldn’t remember anything in his old day; but he now has realized it. By standing in the field, he learned himself a lot. The action of David has shown a lot of internal conflict, and it has taught himself what he has

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