In stories "The Yellow Wallpaper" and "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber", the characters suffering had lead them to breaking free of the control that someone had on them.
Does suffering real lead to Wisdom?
This year we have studied many short stories with reoccurring themes and values. Many of the stories we studied one major theme was suffering, throughout the stories we studied we see this theme occurring many different times. But many of the stories that have suffering them don’t lead to wisdom. The only major story where this is not true is in the school. Where the kids actually gain wisdom from all the things that had died around them. But in every story other then the school suffering does not lead to wisdom. In most stories the characters are pushed to their limits and break free of their suffering.
The short happy life of Francis Macomber, Francis had suffered a lot, but his suffering did not lead to wisdom. Francis suffered because of his wife, Margot. She didn’t care about him and she was very controlling. An example of this is when Margot comes back to their tent and Francis confronts her about what she had just done. “You don’t wait long when you have an advantage, do you? Please let’s not talk. I’m sleepy, darling. I’m going to talk. Don’t mind me then, because I’m going to sleep. And she did” The quote is showing how Margot controls this relationship and how Francis has no control of what is going on. Margot just ignores the fact that Francis is still talking and goes to sleep Francis did not actually live his life until the very end the story. He had realized how to live his life and that he should not always be afraid of things. Francis also at that point had broken out of Margot’s control. Once being able to see things clearly and started to actually live his life he was killed, by Margot. Him suffering did not lead to wisdom because he did not have to suffer to realize that he should have been living his life the way he was at the end of the story the whole time.