Compare and Contrast Mrs Mallard's spiritual quest in Kate Chopin's 'Story of an Hour' with that of the protagonist in Gail Godwin's 'A sorrowful Woman.'

I don 't love my children ' she would be condemned giving the woman a choice in abortion is a very hot right now , but that is a whole new issue altogether . Still , the idea that a woman might be unhappy with , or might not even want , a family is still something most people find hard to accept . The Sorrowful Woman found this hard to accept herself , which explains why she kept trying to reconnect with her family just to push them away again . Her firing the girl ' can even be considered as the

shame she felt at not being able to do those things that the girl was doing for her family anymore , things that she felt she had to do . It should be noted that while her detachment to her family is clear in how her husband is consistently called the husband ' or the father ' and her son is called the child ' she still feels like the motherly duties are her own as the kitchen is still referred to as her kitchen (Godwin

Mrs . Mallard , on the other hand , laid her shame to rest more easily as a clear and exalted perception enabled her to dismiss the suggestion as trivial (Chopin . This could be because she did not actually have to see her husband to feel the shame , as she did think that she would weep again when she saw the kind , tender hands folded in death (Chopin . The Sorrowful Woman , however , did not have this luxury as she saw and heard her child and husband constantly . Thus , running away from how she felt when she saw them can explain why she locked herself away in the room to the point where she would only receive notes

Of course the reader , even knowing the unhappiness of the woman , would...