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This 3 page paper discusses the story: The Hand, by Sidonie Colette. Symbolism, feminist themes explained. Quotes cited from text. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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love. Sidonie Colette in her work, The Hand, show a progression of one womans perspectives and outlook toward her husband. A narrator who never names the protagonist, a young,
newly married woman, tells this story. It is an age old scene which opens up the story. They are lying in bed together and the young wife, still very much
in love, rolls over to observe her new husband. She declares that she is too happy to sleep. The story of their
courtship unfolds and the reader learns that the newly wed is very na?ve about marriage, love, and the reality of life. Her own life experiences, the reader learns, have been
limited as she has never lived on her own, having lived at home until the day that she was married. As she
describes her husband and she speaks of him, the most that the reader learns about this man is that he is nice looking, very rich, and that he has nicely
manicured hands. She realizes as she gazes down at him that this is the first time she has really, truly observed him. The hands that she has admired for their
hygiene she also realizes are very large and she is shocked. This is a significant statement by the wife, since up until this time, she has been blissfully locked into
that Cinderella syndrome where everything was perfect. Now, of course, she is noticing his imperfections. She seems fixated on his hands, how
rough they actually are, how out of place the pink varnish looks. The wife sees cruelty there, as if he hands were malevolent beings, with a mind of their own.
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