The audience begin to hope Laura’s romantic dreams will become her reality and she will stop living in the lonely world she has wrapped herself in - the four apartment walls acting as her shield. As the play is a memory play the audience are conscious of Tom, the only reliable source of fixed income, leaving (he begins the play narrating from the future, away from the family). Therefore, the audience are very aware that Laura and Amanda’s future and most importantly livelihood, depends on this evening with Jim being a success. Especially since Laura will probably not receive another gentleman caller. They are made to wonder who will provide for these two dependent women, especially Laura seeing as see she is unable to fend for herself – she dropped out of Business College.
While she is upset by this, she instead thinks about the things she can do such as, “writing, teaching, raising children and cats and plants and snakes, reading, speaking publicly about MS and depression, even playing bridge” (Mairs 48) In the essay Mairs talks about two women, both with MS, living completely different lives. One lives as though she’s not disabled, while the other suffers through it, almost giving up her life to MS. When she was on her way to California for a family trip, she experienced an exacerbation but went to California anyway because she wasn’t sure whether or not she’d ever be able to make it there again. Mairs refuses to give in to the negative thoughts because she doesn’t want to make any decisions for future Nancy because she doesn’t know what future Nancy
In the two short stories, both women feel repressed in their role unwillingly to escape their room leaving them to have a distorted reality created by their mind. Under societal conditions, both women embody a struggle for freedom while spiraling into id tendencies and primal thought. In the Yellow Wallpaper, the woman has very little control over her life due to her nervous condition. She has become trapped by her husband because of not only societal obligations but the treatment back in the day. The treatment consisted of no interactions with anything or anyone but rest and silence.
The wallpaper is her confinement and by tearing it down she frees herself. The narrator’s writings in her notebook and the notebook are other symbols. They represent her attempt at a normal, sane life during her isolation. She writes despite her husband’s objections, this is her connection to her sanity and reality. In “The Veldt” the house is symbolic of technology threatening to take over the world and growing so much that there was no need for human
“ dearest heart, prithee put off your journey until sunrise and sleep in your own bed tonight. A lone woman is troubled with such dreams and such thoughts that she’s afraid of herself sometimes”. Young Goodman Brown did not listen and eventually left. By leaving to go into the forest he not only left his wife but it symbolizes him leaving his religion or God behind. Young Goodman Brown’s name is also symbolic, his youth and good nature are symbolized by his name.
As she refuses to talk to anybody, the child created her own imaginary world being unwilling to look at the reality: “Why couldn't he understand that if he kept quiet, if all of them kept quiet, her parents would hear her and come to take her home?” (47). Through the story, her illusion state changes and tend to become a realistic one. Step by step she has no choice but to find in herself enough courage to accept and to surpass the situation. Nandana can be considered a hero because, as it painful, she finally accepts and begins to talk. Secondly, there's Nirmala, Nandana's grandmother, who was binged back to reality.
After she goes away to her room alone and stays there for an hour; while her sister Josephine and her husband’s friend Richards, who brought the news, honestly believe that it would make her very upset and could affect her health. What happened in that room? “There stood, facing the open window, a comfortable, roomy armchair” (449). The open window gives her a feeling of freshness, newness, and connection to the world. The comfortable, roomy armchair gives her a sense of security and comfort in spite of her husband's death.
Reading Reflection: “The Story of an Hour” Brittany Martin ENG125 Introduction to Literature Instructor April MacGrotty September 19, 2011 Reading Reflection: ‘The Story of an Hour” For my Reading reflection paper I have chosen to write about “The story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin (1894) I will attempt to do so using the formalist approach. Professional teaching and research have revolved around "criticism," or the exegesis of individual works, and every other aspect of literary study has been treated as contributory to "reading (Gorman, 2011). I chose this story because from the beginning until the end this story held my attention and sent me through a rush of emotions all at the same time. From the setting of the story, the main characters bedroom, and how she was able to view the world in totally different way from a familiar space, to the description of the main character a woman who had beauty, weaknesses and strengths and her rollercoaster of emotions from grieve to relief that she went through during the entire story kept me wanting to read more. The Story of an Hour mostly takes place in the main character Mrs. Mallard’s bedroom where she retreats after she learns the news of her husband’s death.
So, as an escape from the reality of the world she closes her eyes. Sylvia is saying that just simply closing her eyes or hiding does not last forever because when she opens her eyes everything is still the same. "(I think I made you up inside my head)", with this, Sylvia is referring to the happiness and normality of her own life. She feels that this has never been a real part of her life and therefore she has only made it up in her head. In the second stanza, Sylvia is saying that her life was abruptly taken over by and "arbitrary blackness".
She is tired of fight with the world and is afraid of what is happening to her at this point in her life. So, as an escape from the reality of the world she closes her eyes. Sylvia is saying that just simply closing her eyes or hiding does not last forever because when she opens her eyes everything is still the same. "(I think I made you up inside my head)"?, with this, Sylvia is referring to the happiness and normality of her own life. She feels that this has never been a real part of her life and therefore she has only made it up in her head.