This is from an assignment I did on character. The story in question is Kate Chopin's "Story of An Hour".
Dear Brently;
I am writing to you to inform you that I did not die from joy from your return. Instead, I passed from this life into the next. I left you, like I thought you had left me. At first, I struggled with the grief, with the guilt. I felt a storm within me and everything felt so unfamiliar. My mind was racing with wild abandonment. I had felt captive for so long that it was hard to cope withÂ… until I had an epiphany. The main concept of marriage is the repression of a woman and the bending of her will. I repressed the strongest impulse of my being for you, Brently. While you thought the things you did were to support our marriage, I felt you did it to bend my will and I consider that a crime.
I have never felt so free before. I was young when we married and I lost my identity to become your wife. I blindly accepted into our marriage, and the idea that you......
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