All three of the writers wrote about women wanting one particular thing. In ‘The Story Of An Hour’, Mrs Mallard is seeking freedom, and is absolutely overjoyed when it sinks in that she has got it, ‘She breaths a quick prayer that life may be long.’ She feels that now her husband has passed away she can actually look forward to life and look forward to waking up the next morning. ‘It was only yesterday that she had thought with a shudder that life might be long.’ But now she was looking forward to every day that would come.
In ‘The Woman’s Rose’ the woman wants the friendship of the fair seventeen year old girl. ‘I would have given all their compliments if she would have smiled at me as she smiled at them.’ She seems to admire the girl. The way she describes the girl ’… fair, and rather fully-fleshed; she had large dreamy blue eyes, wavy light hair [and] rather heavy lips.’ She describes as if she feels like she wants to be like her the fair-haired girl. When she got all the compliments from the men, she loved it, she loved being pursued and being called beautiful and a woman. The pretty seventeen year old girl and the woman met at the party and the girl felt as if all her wishes had come true by actually talking to the woman. Olive Schreiner narrates the story so it seems as if she is actually the woman, which gives the more personal effect.
The woman in ‘The necklace’, Madame Loisel wanted to be the upper class women that she never was. She seemed to have the upper hand over her husband, Monsieur Loisel. ‘She looked at him irritably and said shortly “And what am I supposed to wear if I do go?”’ Monsieur Loisel thought that she would be happy by getting the invite to the party, but Madame Loisel seemed that nothing would please her no matter what her husband did for her she was never happy. She manipulated her husband and she was greedy. It seems that she never loved her husband she just married him as she thought that she wouldn’t be able to marry an upper class man, and jus accepted the offer of a clerk.
All three writers use symbolism in their stories, which is fairly important as symbolism affect the women in the stories.
In ‘The Women’s Rose’ the girl had hoped that spring would come. Spring gives us the sense of happiness, romance, flowers and friendship. The word ‘Spring’ was also used in the story on an hour By Kate Chopin. Mrs Mallard got excited and stated thinking about spring and how she looked forward to it.
In ‘The story of an hour the pace of the story is fast because it is so short but also because it is mainly made up of simple sentences, even though a few complex sentences are also used in the story.
In ‘The Women’s Rose’ the story flows because Olive Schreiner uses a lot of semi colons, which keeps the complex sentences smoother.
All the three stories have a few similarities. All of them are written about them getting what they want at one point in the stories. Most of the similarities are between ‘The Woman’s Rose’ and ‘The Story Of An Hour’ as they both talk about spring, them being happy and independent and looking forward to living their lives.
All the stories helped us to feel as we were there living the story, as if we were in the patriarchal 19th century. We read about the way the women are treated in injustice and the way that men hardly notice they are there and pay little attention to them. They fought to accomplish something that they desired.
