Allegory In A Rose For Emily

Edna is the main character in the novel who sacrifices herself in the biggest way possible. She realizes that she cannot face the terms of motherhood and the forced marriage to Leonce Pontellier. Edna wants to be the independent women that she isn’t allowed to be, which the meaning of The Awakening is that people cannot be forced to be in a relationship with a person they don’t truly love. Towards the end of the book after Robert leaves her and as she thinks about her life and the events that have happened that she regretted.

I personally think she had learned to appreciate this new freedom she had obtained; and she not only dies of a heart attack. I think she also dies because her freedom was snatched

It was Brently Mallard who entered, a little travel-stained, composedly carrying his grip-sack and umbrella. He had been far from the scene of accident, and did not even know there had been one. He stood amazed at Josephine’s piercing cry; at Richards’ quick motion to screen him from the view of his wife, But Richards was too late, When the doctors came they said she had died of heart disease—of joy that kills,” (Chopin). The last form of tragic irony was when she finds out her husband is alive and well and she dies.

If Mr. Marsden found out who had signed the petition, then they would be blacklisted and if she wants to get her family back then she shouldn’t sign the petition. “She hadn’t realized how lonely until now-now that she was no longer alone” (140). Lyddie is realizing how lonely she had been, but now is coming to think she is no longer alone. This is a problem for Lyddie because Lyddie had missed her family and she was lonely. If Lyddie wants her family back together again she is going to have to pay off the debt as fast as possible.

Many modernists were inspired by the Civil War, WWI, and the Great Depression to introduce a new theme into literature. This theme consisted of the stream of conscious, and hopelessness. A short piece that has both of these themes is “The Jilting of Granny Weatherall,” by Katherine Ann Porter. Porter’s short story compared to many other modernistic pieces during the modernist time period. A terrific comparison to this story is the story “Rose for Emily” by William Faulkner, which also has both the stream of conscious and hopelessness as themes.

There is a common theme of young women dying in Poe’s works. In short stories and poems such as, “Annabel Lee, The Fall of the House of Usher, The Oval Portrait”, etc.., a young, innocent woman dies in a strange and horrible way. There is a direct connection to Poe’s life in this theme. His mother, foster mother, and wife were the three woman who he truly loved dearly, and they passed on before him. Poe’s wife was very pretty and died at a young age, just like the characters in many of Poe’s stories.

Meet Mrs. Bundren,’ he says” (261). This hurts me because after putting all the effort to bring his dead-for-nine-days wife back to Jefferson in order to bury her with her family, Anse goes and finds a new wife.

As the traditional idol she is, Emily is the subject of the intense gaze and judgment of the entire town and the narrator representing it. Instead of connecting with Emily, the townspeople create distorted interpretations of a woman they know little about. They attend her funeral more to satisfy their own curiosity about the town 's eccentric than to pay their respects. The women came “mostly out of curiosity to see the inside of her house, which no one save an old man-servant – a combined gardener and cook – had seen in at least ten years.” (“A Rose for Emily”)

It was unexpected to find out how happy she was when she found out she finally got her freedom because her husband was not with her any

Mrs. Mallard cannot contain her emotions and as soon as she lays eyes on her husband she immediately dies from heart disease. This quick death symbolizes how severe Mrs. Mallard’s heart condition is and how surprised she was to see her

In the novel the Glass Castle Jeanette Walls learns from the mistakes of her parents that being successful in life depends of your characters and the choices you make in your life . Jeanette learns from her parents that if she doesn 't start thinking about her future at a young age , she’ll eventually be following the footsteps of her parents, and having an unpurposeful and an unrewarding lifestyle in her future. The Glass Castle suggests that in order to be successful in life you have to leave some things behinds and move on and that exactly what Jeannette Walls has done. Jeanette 's parents mistake was that they never thought about the future and always tried to enjoy the present. She chose to move away from her parents and live with her older sister and that decision she made was the main reason why she succeeded in life.

However there is also dramatic irony to the understanding of the story. "When the doctors came they said she had died of heart disease- of joy that kills. "(527) She was very happy but didn 't think people would agree with her being happy, so she hid it. Everyone thinks he died of joy.

Although the way she was acting was not considered proper, and was not the behavior expected from the newly, grieving widow. She stated, “I will live for myself,” which leads us to believe that until then she lived for her husband (Chopin 2). The “Story of an Hour” depicts the role of a woman as a servant to their husband. As if, they only lived, breathed, and functioned because of their husbands and their role as a wife. The readers can infer that Louise’s death comes from the exhaustion and devastation of thinking that she had gained her freedom and no longer had to strive to be a perfect woman that has to abide by society’s standards.

The theme statement that I have chosen from “The story of an hour” is “Death is a moment of grief and happiness” because in the story the main character is Mrs. Mallard and she has a husband named Mr. Mallard. So, anyways Mrs. Mallard has a heart problem and she also has a sister named Josephine that helps take care of her. So, Mr. Mallard has a friend that he works with named Richards and he has come running to Mrs. Mallards house and told her that there has been a railroad disaster and Richards said “Bentley Mallard 's name leading the list of killed”. So, Mrs. Mallard thought her husband died because he was leading on top of the list of who was killed. Then, “she stood paralyzed inability to accept its significance”.

Mallard has a heart problem (Chopin 128); this will become important as she later dies “of heart disease” (Chopin 129) which makes a pattern as the story both starts and ends the story. Because of Mrs. Mallard’s heart problem, both Josephine and Richards tried to break the news as gentle as possible. So Josephine told her “in broken sentences; veiled hints that revealed in half concealing” (Chopin 128) about her husband’s death. The way Josephine tried to convey this message shows that it should have had a longer effect than the short moment she cried “with sudden, wild abandonment, in her sister’s arms” (Chopin