¶ … Kate Chopin and Gail Godwin
When comparing The Story of an Hour by Kate Chopin and A Sorrowful Woman by Gail Godwin, the main similarity is the theme of marriages. These types of relationships should be based on important issues such as trust, love, and commitment between two people (Coontz, 2005). However, there are many people who do not base their marriages on such things, and these stories address that issue (Coontz, 2005). Women, like men, are not always happy in their relationships (Kiecolt-Glaser & Newton, 2001). Both Chopin's and Godwin's stories focus on the women and how they struggle with the marriages they have (Meyer, 2003).
Since nearly half of the marriages in the United States end in divorce, the idea that there are unhappy marriages does not come as a big surprise (Kiecolt-Glaser & Newton, 2001). However, what people sometimes do about their unhappy marriages and what it leads them to do have to be carefully considered (Kiecolt-Glaser & Newton, 2001). Such is the case with these two stories and their endings. Both women are devoted to their families, but they end up struggling with so much pain and misery personally that their stories end with death instead of with happier times (Meyer, 2003).
Chopin's story is the tale of Mrs. Mallard (Meyer, 2003). She is a caring woman who is very loving. She wants to have a good, solid, lasting marriage. However, she is also the victim of the standards that are placed upon marriage by society (Meyer, 2003)....
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