In the short fiction, Chopin explores her belief that marriage and freedom cannot exist together by using two powerful ironies: situational irony and dramatic irony. Kate Chopin first uses a situational irony to suggest that the women in the nineteenth century did not always feel sorrowful for their husband’s death. The situational irony happened right after Mrs. Mallard heard about the news of her husband’s death. In contrast to the grief and sorrow that Mrs. Mallard was supposed to feel, the things around her were described with a joyful mood “open window… comfortable, roomy armchair… trees that were all aquiver with the new spring life… countless sparrows were twittering in the eaves” (Chopin 1). The event is an example of a situational irony because the mood of the event was happy, which is different from what one would have expected.
Myrtle: Myrtle Wilson is a victim of the “American Dream”. Like Gatsby, she aspired to be important and stand high on the social latter while living a life of glamour and pampering. Opulence was also another desire of hers that was never wholly reached. Her affair with Tom Buchanan permits her to live her life of luxury and importance, no matter how short-lived it was. While she was with Tom, Myrtle could buy the longings of her heart; possessions she could have only dreamed of when she was with Mr. Wilson.
Unrequited love is a kind of love that can't be reciprocated or returned, even though it's usually desired. In the novel, one of the major characters, Jay Gatsby, has this sort of romance towards his old flame, Daisy Buchanan. When he went off to war, even though Daisy promised to wait for him, she couldn't and married Tom. Gatsby was poor and Daisy wanted more, desperate for affection. When Gatsby returned home, he did whatever he could to win Daisy's heart back and earned money and riches.
From the start of John and Kathy’s relationship, Kathy is a main contributor to the communication issues the couple has throughout their marriage. Even though Kathy knows about his horrifying past, she never does anything to help John cope with his issues, but instead makes them worse during their life together. In John and Kathy’s marriage, they do not talk about the issues they are having, nor do they put any effort in to try and fix it. When John is in Vietnam, their relationship only starts to fail even more than it already has. John attempts to communicate with Kathy while he is away, but Kathy for the most part lets him down through some of her degrading letters.
Daisy is seeing Gatsby behind her husbands, toms, back. However, Tom is having an affair with Myrtle, but her husband doesn’t find out that until the end of the novel. Wilson, Myrtles husband, when he found out he told Myrtle, “God knows what you’ve been doing, everything you’ve been doing. You may fool me, but you can’t fool god.”(pg.160) More immorality took place in the novel
A Valediction, Poem cleverly used situation of separation to explore power of memories and differences between youth and maturity. Begins with persona looking for comfort after parting with a friend (assumed husband), commonly seeks reassurance through John Donne’s poetry that are “inked with aches from adolescence” showing collection is full of past memories. Title Valediction directly links to his poem about not having to worry about parting with his wife b/c love shared between them is so powerful. H. then talks about her turbulent youth with comment about not needing drugs; “who needs drugs is she has enough uppers and downers in her head”. She refers to novelist Lou Salome and her loathing in giving up intellectualism for love and sex, portrayed through her inability to recall details of kissing a famous philosopher.
Frome marries Zenobia Pierce prematurely, only to obviate “the mortal silence of…long imprisonment.” (Wharton, page 61) He wanted “the sound of a …voice” to fill the void on his farm. (Wharton, page 61) Likewise, Holden seeks conviviality with Sally Hayes though he dislikes her phoniness. He ends the “depress[ing]” date by calling Sally a “royal pain in the ass.”(Salinger, page 133) Both characters were merely looking for companionship in their otherwise lonely lives but both encounters ended badly, for Frome on a large scale and for Holden on a smaller scale. Undoubtedly, these rash acts to receive camaraderie illustrate the foolhardiness of the protagonists. They both abhor solitude but are unsure how to find viable friendship.
Many problems prevent Blake’s character from reconnecting with his lover of the past. Line three of the poem suggests the first road block from the women’s love when the author mentions that “A Chapel was built…” When he saw the chapel, he was amazed that love was no longer
Birdsong Quotations for Coursework How men view women A to introduce I- “muttered an introduction of which Stephen heard only the words ‘my wife’ B on I- “such a delicate creature” A on I- “my wife is a mysterious creature… no one knows- like the little stream in the song- whither she flows or where her end will be” I’s father- “disappointed her father by not being the son he had wanted” Jean- “he liked to evaluate their (I and sisters) comparative worth in his mind” A-“was at first proud to be married to such a young and attractive woman” S on I- ‘Stephens body convulsed with desire” As S touches L- “despite himself, Stephen felt the reflex of desire” Weir to S- ‘girls? What men call their sweethearts?” Weir to S- “I never think
Henry and Roy who both tells a story of their idealistic past, can be grouped together as the ones, who believes in the existence of idealistic love which tends to be fanciful like their own childhood memories. Roy claims that his love is equivalent to “Mozart’s love” which characterises the romance with happy endings. Henry’s depiction of his mother’s devotion has the sense of artificiality, and it’s almost like as if he forces the story upon himself to avoid other alternatives. However unlike Roy Henry understands the contradicting reality in regards to commitment and fidelity “everyone blames women but I forgive them, if they change their love a thousand times a day.. but I think it’s the necessity of women’s heart” Henry is aware and accepts the flaw in the concept of absolute faithfulness. Ruth, who suffers from her inability to distinguish reality from illusion, was a victim of a horrible relationship.