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Two Women's Repression - Online Term Paper

Two Women's Repression

Jennifer Grabau
Professor Henny Kim
English V01B
9 September 2013

Two Women's Repression

Although "Eveline" and "The Story of an Hour" depict from the same impression, they are also uniquely unfamiliar. After reading both stories, it's easy to identify they're similarities and differences. Eveline was torn between leaving her family to be with Frank. Mrs. Mallard was under the impression that her husband and had died in an accident and was surprisingly excited about it. Eveline didn't want to leave her father and brothers because of the promise she made to her mother before she died. You can tell that Mrs. Mallard wasn't at all happy in her marriage with Brently and had possibly ...

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They were both so close to having a new life but yet so far.

"She was young, with a fair, calm face, whose lines bespoke repression and a certain strength" (216). Eveline and Mrs. Mallard were both repressed women that felt stuck in the lives they were living.

When Mrs. Mallard was sitting in the room by herself after hearing the news about her husband, "she was drinking in a very elixir of life through that open window" (217). She was free! Or so she thought. Eveline was torn between staying with her father and siblings and leaving with Frank. "She stood among the swaying crowd in the station at the North Wall. He held her hand and she knew that he was speaking to her, saying something about the passage over and over again" (6). Eveline couldn't do it. She couldn't leave her family. Whereas, Mrs. Mallard was already gone from her husband and thrilled about it.
It's interesting to read two different stories that can be so similar yet so different at the same time. ...

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