Hester gave her daughter the name Pearl because she got the baby with all she had, Pearl was her only treasure. Thus, Pearl’s existence gave her mother reason to live, holding her spirits when she is tempted to give up. Hester thought that God gave her the child in required of all things else, which she had lost. Pearl was her happiness. On the other hand, she was her torture, too.
Her mother tried to arrange a marriage for her with a man who didn’t believe in God. Lucy tried to convince her mother that she didn’t want to marry because Christ would be a partner in life much more powerful than anyone. Lucy prayed and prayed for her mother to understand her desire. Then, one day her mother's deathly illness was cured. Her mother greatly appreciated what Christ had done for her, and had agreed to Lucy's
At the beginning of Why Did I Get Married, Sheila, played by Jill Scott, viewed her relationship as something she could not do without. She felt God gave her this relationship and it was her duty to make it work, whether it was good or bad. It was extremely evident that Sheila loved her husband with all her heart. Although he said terrible things to her and about her, she never spoke unkindly of him. Actually, she often took up for the hurtful comments he said about her by brushing them off or joking.
The harsh ending of the story makes me more sympathetic for Stella. I felt like Stella was the biological daughter but is not treated with love and enough attention. At the beginning she wishes she could be in Magda’s position, only Magda will die soon and Stella knows this. Rosa put so much attention into a lost cause while she could’ve cared for her own child just the same. Even if this wasn’t the case, Rosa could’ve loved Stella just the same to prevent the death of
Ever since her mother died, she has longed for a maternal touch. Although Rosaleen loves Lily, Rosaleen’s somewhat insensitive, personality prevents her from providing Lily with the kind of compassion that Lily thinks a mother should provide. August, however, can and does provide Lily with what she considers to be “mother’s love” total and complete understanding, firm guidance, and the ability to gently criticize. But August believes in a different kind of motherly love that supplied by the mother of God, the Virgin Mary. For much of the novel, August teaches Lily about the kind of undying, universal, hidden love that exists everywhere in the world but which is actually manufactured by the Virgin Mary.
When the story went back and told how her and her husband met and came to marry it told an awful lot about who Edna was. They were not totally in love and the author stated, “The violent opposition of her father and sister Margaret to Edna marrying a Catholic” (Chopin. 1899) played a part in them getting married. Edna enjoyed the love Leonce showered upon her, but married out of spite in a sense. Edna was described as a “woman not given to confidences.” (Chopin, 1899) This was not an uncommon emotion nor were many of the other feelings she expressed all over the book.
The moment that Tania looks from Alexander to Dasha also symbolizes her initial realization that her love for Alexander is impossible because her sister loved him first. Next, Simons uses italics in order to emphasize how shocked Tania was. Lastly, that fact that she “wanted to say” but didn’t actually say aloud what she felt, shows the beginning of Tania’s secret keeping and lying in order to cover up her love. Through this visual imagery, emphasis, and symbolism, Simons initiate the cause of impossible love due to family. The cause of impossible love due to family is seen again through Simons’ use of dialect and visual imagery.
It was said that the greatest night of their lifes is when they marry and lose their virginity to their beloved husband. “ Without sexual purity, a women was no women but rather a lower form of being “fallen women” unworthy of love of her sex and unfit for their company” ( Lavender 2). It was unlikely at this time for the unfit “fallen women” to get married. However in “A Respectable Women”, Mrs. Baroda defies the role of purity when she desires her husband’s friend. In the short story “A Respectable Women” by Kate Chopin, Mrs. Baroda the leading women goes against her purity and faithfulness to her husband because she was his friend Gouvernail.
Mr. Davis to me had no heart and wanted his wife whenever he felt like it, to make her go through so much. But still, Mrs. Davis did everything she could to help Mr. Davis and at the end she found God’s love and correction in him. Women were also scared of child birth. Jerusha said, when she was five months pregnant that she was going to die in child birth, she prepared herself. “She acknowledged that she was a fearful creature, and especially so because of her pregnancy, and wished to give herself up completely to God”.
She married for love, and the love turned to dust. She had bonny children, yet she felt they had been thrust upon her, and she could not love them.” Even though she has everything she needs, a stable family and enough money to support her needs, she still wants more. She says that she is “very unlucky” because she “married an unlucky husband”. Instead of taking the responsibility upon herself that she is unlucky and does not have everything she wants, she blames others for her lack of happiness. In the end she turns out to be the luckiest character in the story because with Paul’s luck she gains all of the money he won.