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In three pages, the author discusses the main characters in Kate Chopin's "The Story of an Hour" and William Faulkner's "A Rose for Emily." The author looks at the way society presses Mrs. Mallard and Emily to hide how they really feel after the death of their husband and father. There are two works cited.
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lives by their father or husband. In this paper, I will discuss how Emily and Mrs. Mallard were affected by the society of their time. In "The Story of an
Hour," Mrs. Mallard finds out that her husband is dead. In societys norm, she should be sad and worried about her future. In fact, her initial response is to become
sad. Her sadness, though, is not the kind of mourning anyone would have expected. She weeps, suddenly and violently. There was no initial response of shock. In "A Rose
for Emily," Emily has the opposite response. Instead of instant acceptance, she opts to completely ignore her fathers death. When the townspeople come to collect the body, Emily refuses to
give it to them because she feels that he is not dead. These women mourn the death of the iron fist in their lives differently, but the reasons for
their unusual responses comes down to societal constraints. They respond out of discovering a new-found freedom. Emily is afraid of it at first, but then runs out and finds herself
a boyfriend. Mrs. Mallard immediately accepts that her husband is dead, but slowly comes to the realization that she is completely and utterly free. When Emily discovers that her
boyfriend is gay, her instant fear of what the community would think of her leads her into completely irrational thought. She hates the idea of losing him. Even though he
is not a replacement for her father, she cannot stand the idea of being alone. In contrast, Mrs. Mallard enjoys the idea of being alone. After crying, she shuts herself
into her room and sits in the same chair she has sat in for hours before. Perhaps she looked out that window and wondered what could have been, but this
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