The Story of an Hour & a Sorrowful Woman

A heartbroken womanhoodhood & The Story of an Hour The gloominess and unhappiness displayed by 2 of the married women in A abject Woman and The Story of an Hour aims that trades union does non always commence the typical ending of most fairy tales. Thus being sustenance happily ever after. It is evident that both(prenominal) of these women feel trapped in their marriages as many people feel today. Growing up with viii sisters I have also seen this cutaneous senses of entrapment in the arena as well. In both of these stories the women display such a lack of have intercourse towards their spouses and in fact in The Story of an Hour it seems as though Mrs.Mallard neer really loved her spouse and is the happiest for the hour that she thinks her preserve is dead. The woman in A lamentable Woman is never well-off with her marriage and life and feels trapped as well. The bizarre thing is that both of these women end up dead and do not find a way to arrive at help or t o get out of the marriages. The authors of these both stories Kate Chopin and Gail Goodwin both tie the unhappiness of these women to the way in which society impacts superstars marriage. initial of all, through the settings of their stories, both of the authors suggested that social expectations be the real causes of their protagonists deaths. In A Sorrowful Woman, the nameless protagonist has what seems to be such a sexually attractive life. She has a durcapable, receptive, gentle hubby and a tender golden iii son (189) He was attuned to her he understood such things (189). This statement leads one to believe that her husband always understood her. It also seems that he is uncoerced to sacrifice his time for her and their family.Mrs. Mallard in The Story of an Hour is in a similar environment. Knowing that she has heart trouble, great care was interpreted to break to her as gently as possible the news of her husbands death (18). By setting up such sharp environments where t he two protagonists live, the authors keep readers away from the persuasion that their protagonists deaths are the result of big(a) treatment. It is the force of social expectations placed upon the women that locked them in the jail of marriage and that lastly lead them to death.It becomes evident while reading both of these stories that both of the young-bearing(prenominal) protagonists in the two stories live very unsatisfactory lives. Mrs. Mallard in The Story of an Hour seems to feel trapped in her own marriage. She was young, with a fair, calm face, whose lines bespoke repression and rase certain strength (19) tells us that her marriage has taken everything away from the young woman emotionally. It was only yesterday she had thought with a shudder that life might be prospicient (19), shows that she never felt freedom in her life and felt very unhappy in this marriage because life seemed to be so long because of it.Therefore, She did not hear the story as many women have he ard the equivalent (18) when she was told about her husbands death. She just accepted it and went to her room because she realised that her husbands death gave her freedom and now spring days, and pass days, and all sorts of days that would be her own. (19) In the other story A Sorrowful Woman, the once again nameless protagonist, is imprisoned in her own mind. This is different from The story of an hour. In A Sorrowful Woman the sight of her family makes her so disgusted and uneasy.She feels that to love and take care of her family is a burden. She stood naked except for her bra, which hung by one strap down the ramp of her body she had not the impetus to shrug it off (189) indicates how tired and motiveless she feels about her life. Both of these women in these two stories struggle to live happily and are constantly living in agony. Many readers, including myself, might love why they dont free themselves by offering part to the husbands.Chopin and Godwin use a lot of iron y to allow readers to know that it isnt simple for their protagonists to break the social expectations that keep them in the boundary of marriage. divorcement is never an option for them. Divorce might have never been define in their society, and it was most definitely not as common and so as it is now. These poor women have no way to escape from their intemperate unhappiness. Not only did these women not have a way to get out of their crisis, but they were also prohibited from being themselves and from doing what they want.In A Sorrowful Woman, the main character is exhausted from being a wife and beat one too many times (189). When her son says, Shes tired of doing all our things again (193), this tells us what her life was like. She was constantly feeling the stress of trying to be a housewife against her get out, although she did have the business leader to redeem and wasnt given much of a chance to write. that once in her life does she have a chance to write mad and f anciful stories nobody could ever make up again, and a table full of love sonnets(192-193) that is before her death.This woman is in a tough predicament. While the person herself tells her to do whatever she wants to, the person that is bear upon by social expectations inside her tells her to do other things. She completely loses controls of herself. eve though she was unable to do things she wants, she still had to estimate as if she was the luckiest woman (189). In The Story of an Hour, on the other hand, Mrs. Mallards overtake joy when she received the news of her husbands death indicated for how long and how much she wanted to be Free, free, free (19). Only alone in her room could Mrs. Mallard express her happiness. In front of people, she has to repress her feelings and pretend to be sad. The conflict inside and outside the woman tells us so much about what the society expected her to do. It also seems that Godwin was trying to show the conflict between Mrs. Mallards marria ge and society by intensely describing her world inside and outside of her room. Chopin and Godwin have successfully directed readers to the only average resolution of their stories, the deaths of their main characters.Death is the only way our two protagonists are able to escape from their agony and from the pressure of social expectations placed upon them. These two womens societies dont allow them to die comfortably even when they have chosen death as their fate. In A Sorrowful Woman, even though our nameless protagonist despises being a mother and wife she still does what society would expect of her, as a housewife, recompense before her death. She made five loaves of warm bread, a roast stuffed turkey, a glazed ham, three pies of different fillings, (192).In The Story of an Hour, Mrs. Mallard was say to have died of joy that kills (20) even though it seems as though she died because she was in the end able to see freedom in her days before and could not fathom to live und er her husbands will again. Even until her death, her society still pushed her in the position of a pretender, of a person she never wants to be. Without a way out of these unhappy situations, both of the protagonists chose death for freedom. It is only through death that they are both able to escape from their unhappy lives.These stories provoke so much thought. Should society be to a greater extent understanding of people? Maybe if our society could be more excepting and understanding in that location would be less tragedy like there has been in Chopins The Story of an Hour and Godwins A Sorrowful Woman. Works Cited Chopin, Kate. The Story of an Hour. Thinking and Writing About Literature. Michael Mayer. 2nd ed. capital of Massachusetts Bedford/St. Martins, 2001. 18-20. Goodwin, Gail. A Sorrowful Woman. Thinking and Writing About Literature. Michael Mayer. 2nd ed. capital of Massachusetts Bedford/St. Martins, 2001. 189-193.