Minnie Wright and Louise Mallard lived very different lives and at the same time they were much alike. They wanted a healthy life, a comfortable home and both women only wanted their husband’s love. They adapted and settled for less and existed more like prisoners than as a wives in their homes.
Minnie Wright didn’t really want her husband gone. When Mr. Wright killed her bird he also killed the last bit of happiness and love she was desperately holding on to. She had started acting like him. Her bitterness turned to hostility and she was not stable or in her right mind. She laughed and hardly showed any emotions as if she was in shock about her actions. Mr. Wright had broke her spirit completely finally. All she wanted when they took her in was her apron and shawl proving that she didn’t believe she deserved anything more. She felt that her life was condemned to imprisonment and she welcomed it proudly.
Mrs. Mallard was thankful to hear about her husband’s death though. She was terrified of Mr. Mallard because he was violent towards her. Still yet she desperately broke down and sobbed in grief. It wasn’t obvious that she felt happiness through her tears and that she seen a brighter future as if she had longed for it secretly for some time. Years of repression had only given her strength. Louise Mallard wasn’t a broken spirit. She acted as if she was just freed from prison and was ready to recover her rights.
Mrs. Mallard and Mrs. Wright were the same in the way that they never felt appreciated or accomplishment in their husband’s eyes. Both women would have stayed in their environments and settled for less than what they actually desired though. At the loss of their husbands, no matter the circumstances they were both also scared and heartbroken. They wanted to live a long happy life with their husbands and wished things could have worked out more for the better than for the worse. They loved their husbands besides everything and demanded for nothing more.
The husbands were different in many ways. Mr. Wright was short and bitter and it was obvious he wasn’t much on company. He wasn’t a compassionate man but wasn’t physically harmful to Mrs. Wright either. Mr. Mallard was violent towards his wife but socially the Mallards hid the violence, so it wasn’t common knowledge. They presented themselves as normal as possible. Mr. Mallard provided a more comfortable home for Mrs. Mallard also.
Both men thought of themselves before their wives. The thought of women being helpless without a man was common. The doubt of women having the capability of thought or plan was common also. Women were to do their job and to be subservient to their husbands.
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