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A 3 page paper which examines the theme of growing up, or maturing, as seen in three short stories. The short stories are “The Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin, “Hills Like White Elephants” by Ernest Hemingway, and “A & P” by John Updike. No sources cited.
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can learn lessons, discover new things about themselves and move into a new direction in their lives, or ultimately have an experience which makes them far more enlightened or grown
up than they could have imagined. The following paper takes three short stories and analyzes their theme of growing up, or maturing. The short stories are "The Story of an
Hour" by Kate Chopin, "Hills Like White Elephants" by Ernest Hemingway, and "A & P" by John Updike. Growing Up The first story, "The Story of an Hour" by
Kate Chopin, is a story of a grown woman, and a mature woman as well. As such it is not a story about a young woman coming to some time
in her life when she grows up and matures. But, it is a story of growing up in a sense that the woman in the story is finding herself, feeling
independent, and thus seeing a life that lay before her which offers her a sense of independence and freedom. In this story the woman discovers that her husband has
died and although she loved him, she is now in a position where she can envision her future as a woman who does not have to be simply a wife.
She has been given the opportunity, or so she thinks, to finally live a life that is solely hers. There is a powerful sense of freedom in this realization that
sets her soul souring. In the end, however, she discovers that her husband is not dead after all, which results in a heart attack for her and death. So, while
she experienced a sort of growth and enlightenment about her possible future, she was not strong enough to actually deal with the fact that the possibilities were no longer valid
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