Seventh Day Fourth Story: [The Woman Who Locked Her Husband Out] Looking at the story, The Woman Who Locked Her Husband Out, first glance it seems sounds to me like a story about an unfaithful husband named, Tofano. But low and behold, it is the wife, Monna Ghita, with another man. This marriage started off on the wrong foot with Tofano, promptly growing jealousy of his new wife without a reason. Monna disliked her husbands jealousy and decided to deal with with it by giving him something to be jealous about. She used her husbands love of alcohol to intoxicate him so she would be free to, “forgather with her lover.” This seems counter intuitive. Giving Tofano a reason to be jealous when it clearly states it happen, “without any reason.” I …show more content…
She started off by telling a lie, explaining how she was comforting a next-door neighbor who could not sleep the whole night. This did not work so she resorted to threats, “If you don’t let me in , I shall make you the sorriest man on earth.” She states, “Rather than face the dishonor which in spite of my innocence you threaten me with, I shall hurl myself into this well.” Surprisingly Tofano did not flinch at these words, but this is when the wife gets real sneakily. She walked over to the well, picked up a large rock, says, “God forgive me!” and throws the rock down the well. Tofano was dumfounded that she would actually do this and ran out to save his wife. But his wife was waiting close to the house. She ran to the fount door and bolted it as soon as she saw her husband run to the well. Sitting by the window she shouted, “You should water down our wine when you’re drinking it, and not in the middle of the night.” She had outwitted her husband and this is not the end. She then started shouting, “By the cross of God, you loathsome sot, you’re not going to come in here tonight. I will not tolerate this conduct of yours any longer, It’s time I showed people the sort of man you are and the hours you keep.” She accuses him of drinking and sleeping around, and the people surrounding the yelling couple believe her and the people gave him a
A few hours later, the prince had the witch banished from the earth. He went to go marry Paisley. Of course she fulfilled her promise due to the fact that the prince saved her life. After their wedding they rode off into the sunset on a white horse and Paisley said “I shall never lie again as long as I
“You think,’ she said, ‘you can buy me off with this book?’ […] ‘You and your husband. Sitting up here.’ Now she became spiteful. More spiteful and evil than she thought herself capable” (262).
Nevertheless, her attempts are futile as he dismisses her once more, putting his supposed medical opinion above his wife’s feelings. The story takes a shocking turn as she finally discerns what that figure is: a woman. As the story progresses, she believes the sole reason for her recovery is the wallpaper. She tells no one of this because she foresees they may be incredulous, so she again feels the need to repress her thoughts and feelings. On the last night of their stay, she is determined to free the woman trapped behind bars.
The topic of whether it is in the nature of living beings to be naturally good has been examined by several authors throughout previous centuries, for example, Susan Griffin. Using a humanistic perspective, Griffin’s chapter, “Our Secret”, from her book, A Chorus of Stones, approaches this topic and can reflect on her own life and feelings using other people’s stories about fears and their secrets. Combining her personal life stories, Himmler’s life narrative, as well as two sub stories, Griffin’s chapter allows characters to represent human emotions and emphasize the hidden feelings of living beings. Similarly, Plato’s dialogue, Phaedrus, and Franz de Waal’s, The Ape and the Sushi Master, talk about the topic of living beings being naturally
Then she goes on to talk about her marital status in lines six and seven “ It belongs to a woman who sleeps in a twin bed even though
“The Long Goodbye: Mother’s Day in Federal Prison”, written by Amanda Coyne depicts the struggles of parents and family members with the emotional trauma children go through due to the absence of their loved one. The story tugs the heart strings of readers with its descriptive account of Mother’s Day in a minimum security federal prison. Coyne describes the human emotions and truly gives an accurate account of what being in a visitation room is like. “The Long Goodbye: Mother’s Day in Federal Prison” makes the reader question the criminal justice system and convinces him or her to adjust their way of thinking towards the definition of criminalization through the logos, pathos, and ethos demonstrated throughout the text.
Not only is prison ineffective in preventing reoffending in women and is expensive, it can be extremely damaging to the female’s well-being and their families. The effect that a custodial sentence has on women is arguably far worse than for men. Women are often not prepared or equipped for their life following their prison sentence; due to the fact that women are more likely to be lone parents before prison (Social Exclusion Unit, 2002), are more likely to leave prison homeless and unemployed (Wedderburn, 2000), and are more likely to lose access of their children whilst serving their sentence (Corston, 2007). Statistics from 2010 showed that around 17,000 children become separated from their mother by imprisonment (Wilks-Wiffen, 2011). This can be absolutely devastating to not only the female offender, but to their innocent children too. Moreover, due to the small number of women’s prisons, the average distance that women are sent away from their homes is around 60 miles (Women in Prison, 2013). Therefore, even if the women are lucky enough to keep in contact with their children, it can be tremendously hard to organise visitation and uphold
Reading through the very beginning of Susan Griffin’s “Our Secret” felt like reading Shakespeare for the first time as a sticky fingered, toothless, second grader. It just did not make sense...my mind couldn’t quite comprehend it yet. Nothing in the essay seemed to be going in any clear direction, and the different themes in each of the paragraphs did not make sense to me. There was no flow – as soon as you began to comprehend and get used to one subject, she would switch it up on you and start talking about something else that seemed unrelated. As I pushed forward, it seriously was beginning to feel like she was drawing topics out of a hat as she went. That was until I hit around halfway through the second page. This is where Griffin introduces her third paragraph about cell biology: “Through the pores of the nuclear membrane a steady stream of ribonucleic acid, RNA, the basic material from which the cell is made, flows out (234).” She was talking about the basic unit of
In order to rebel against her husband’s act, she chose not to sleep and express her own sense of self-worth and individuality. The next portion of the description talks about how she does not tell “them” that she is actually a week. Gilman’s language choice is clever and helps exemplify her argument in a couple of ways. In one sense, the “them” is referring to her husband, the male superior figure in her life. He decides all of the wife’s life choices.
He tells her not to make a fuss about it because it's not good for his job who would tell their wife that or maybe someone who doesn't care. A mean man he is a cruel hearted man but mary still loved him mary felt broken hearted but tried to ignore it. He had no feelings for her and if he did he wouldn't have tried to leave her and would have worked out the problem.the officers said that he was a” ladies man” what if he didn't die would he have did this to another lady.
Then he gets mad and tells her to leave. She shows enormous amounts of courage throughout the book by standing up for what is right no matter
...the story concludes with the woman "crouched," still naked, "in the underbrush" below her house and marveling how strange it is to be seeing her husband at last after "having wanted so desperately to get home," and yet now feeling "no emotion" at what she saw. (138)
People from the Party came in not too long after. When they came in one of them grabbed the paperweight and threw it to the ground where it shattered. After the paperweight was smashed the men began to beat repeatedly beat Julia and then “carried her out of the room like a
The story begins when she and her husband have just moved into a colonial mansion to relieve her chronic nervousness. An ailment her husband has conveniently diagnosed. The husband is a physician and in the beginning of her writing she has nothing but good things to say about him, which is very obedient of her. She speaks of her husband as if he is a father figure and nothing like an equal, which is so important in a relationship. She writes, "He is very careful and loving, and hardly lets me stir without special direction." It is in this manner that she first delicately speaks of his total control over her without meaning to and how she has no choices whatsoever. This control is perhaps so imbedded in our main character that it is even seen in her secret writing; "John says the very worst thing I can do is to think about my condition...so I will let it alone and talk about the house." Her husband suggests enormous amounts of bed rest and no human interaction at all. He chooses a "prison-like" room for them to reside in that he anticipates will calm our main character even more into a comma like life but instead awakens her and slowly but surely opens her eyes to a woman tearing the walls down to freedom.
Those who are trapped seek freedom. “Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves; and under the rule of a just God, cannot long retain it” (Abraham Lincoln). “Trifles” by Susan Glaspell is about a woman who is the main suspect of her husband’s murder. Though, the story is more centralized around the idea of a woman being trapped in an unhappy marriage that she could not escape. This took place during the late 1800’s in a male dominated country where they feel superior to women.