A love story that only makes sense in the confines of fable, is the sudden romance between Mabel and Dr.Fergusson in the story of “Horse Dealer’s Daughter.” To the common reader, the story plays out as a woman who lost everything and decides to escape the grim reality by suicide, but by luck, is spotted by a vigilant eye of Dr.Fergusson. Who heroically goes to the pond fetches her out and then proceeds to bring her back to life. This Amazing act proved his unmentioned love for her, leading them to fall in love. As cozy of an idea as spontaneous love is, it is a flimsy premise. There are some red flags in the plot that illegitimatizes this as genuine love.
First off, go away and don’t whisper” (Abcarian, 1169) Granny said this because she thought that Cornelia and Dr.Harry were talking about her behind her back. Although jilted at the altar, granny Weatherall still held the love she felt for George this was shown with her first child who she named George. From this past experience granny Weatherall never allowed herself to love someone with such profundity as she once did. “Love was denied Granny the day she was jilted and she herself never dared to love. But without love Granny’s radically human hurt was never healed.”(Unre, 108) At the age of forty, Granny Weatherall suffered of a second life changing jilting when her husband John died.
Relationships in The Handmaid’s Tale and Ariel both share a huge importance. In The Handmaid’s Tale, we see many examples of relationships between Mothers and daughters but do not see the typical “father/ son” relationship. Atwood and Plath both portray parent and child relationships in some ways that are identical, but Plath drifts away from that with the poem “Daddy” which seems to be a very bitter poem about the lack of time she saw her dad Otto Plath. Both Poet and Author do however share the same ideology and belief that giving birth to a baby is somewhat something astronomical however achievable. Both the Handmaids Tale and the poem Nick and The Candlestick show the struggles of having a baby but do however show the everlasting pleasure which they get due to giving birth.
The main character, Juliet at first is strong in the beginning. For example this is one of Juliet’s quotes “Dead flesh and sharpened scalpels didn’t bother me. I was my father’s daughter, after all”. My nightmares were made of darker things.” (pg.20) But then she seems to become more of a damsel in distress as the story goes on, which also makes this a gothic novel. An example of Juliet being a damsel in distress would be when she had run away due to finding out her father was
While in Lawrence’s ‘The Horse Dealer’s Daughter’, a third person point of view is being used to tell the strange love story of the horse dealer’s daughter Mabel committed suicide and a doctor called Fergusson save her and how they fall in love. There is a shift in point of view in this short story, omniscient point of view in the beginning, then from Mabel’s point of view to the first eye contact, then from Fergusson’s. (Mallett, 1997) This shifting of perspective can help the readers to better understand how all the characters think and feel especially the protagonists in the story, and better understand the mutual love between Mabel and Jack. We can see things from both Mabel and Jack’s view and know how they feel after they met each other. Joyce used a lot of symbols especially the religious ones in describing the background of the story.
The mother in the story warns her daughter that they will forever be in conjunction with one another (Fennelly 54). This poem struck a chord with me because of the strong relationship I have made with my own mother. After having my mom read the poem, I discovered I am not alone in thinking it relates to our relationship perfectly. Before I was even finished reading “Because People Asked What My Daughter Will Think Of My Poems When She’s 16”, I could already relate myself to both the mom who writes the letter and the daughter she writes to. I look back at sixteen year old me and I wish I had a letter like this from my mom so we would have understood each other better.
In the short story “Hello, Old Paint” by Jeanne Marie Laskas the bond between human and animal is very important, otherwise she might not of made the right decision. In the beginning, the main character sold her horse, Cricket, and her mule, Sassy. In hopes of them having a better life and it would make it much easier on her as well. Although, Cricket and Sassy had been in her wedding and had always been her favorite animals it seemed like the right thing to do. Then she received a notification in the mail that the check bounced.
She finds exactly what she is looking for, true love and self-fulfillment. Janie is being raised by her grandmother. As Janie grows into a young teenager she begins to dream of love and marriage. Nanny notices that Janie is taking interest in one of her male peers. This scares Nanny so she decides to marry Janie off to Logan Killicks an older man with lots of money and land.
A week later Rat Kiley sends a letter to Curt Lemon’s sister, extolling the virtues of his fellow soldier after his death, explaining what a hero her brother was and how much he loved him. We expected the death and the story to have a positive, heartwarming outcome. The essence of the true war story lies in the reality of the situation. The sister does not respond, and Kiley reacts immaturely. This irony makes sense, O’Brien contends, both because Kiley is young and because he has been exposed to such unspeakable things.
This is proven as she creatively reshapes the central value of Marriage and women and the preconceived ideas we had about these central values before immersing ourselves in Letters to Alice on first reading Jane Austen. Prior to reading letters to Alice, most readers would condemn Mrs Bennett’s behaviour and obsession in pursuing marriage for all her daughters. We are introduced to her obsession immediately from the very first page of the novel “A single man of large fortune; four or five thousand a year. What a fine thing for our girls...you must know that I am thinking of his marrying one of them.” The heightened tone of obsessive excitement highlights the fixation of marriage for the women of Austen’s context. With Austen inclusion of Mrs Bennett’s obsession from the very start of the novel emphasise that this value of marriage is most common among all women in Austen’s context.