Mallard's Loneliness
In the short story “A Story of an Hour”, Mallard is portrayed of being alone due to the “death” of her husband. That “alone” feeling starts to clear away as she notices that she was confined and followed everything that her husband told her to do. Even though Mallard was confined in a room, she starts to see how her husband was acting like a dictator and was moving Mallard as a puppet. At first, when she thought how freedom was coming towards, she dreaded it. But, as freedom arrives and enters her mind, it fills Mallard with an overpowering joy and comfort that she’s not controlled. Yet, she still experiences this mental and emotional freedom still in a small confined room all by herself when staring at the window. “She said it over and over
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Alfred Prufrock is lonely. There is a difference between being lonely and alone, Mallard is a good examples of being alone because even though her husband “died” she still had a family. Unlike Mallard, J. Alfred Prufrock is an example of loneliness because it states in the poem how he stands in a room full of people, nobody is talking to him and no one even recognizes him. In the poem, Alfred Prufrock doesn’t want to be lonely anymore and instead be recognized. The author puts in repetition as a way to catch the reader’s attention, for example “In the room the women come and go talking of Michelangelo” (Eliot 13-14). This portrays how everybody is talking about all of the previous accomplishments Michelangelo made, this puts “pressure” over Prufrock to so something or make something so that people can start to recognize him and he can feel that there is a reason for his life. Prufrock is more dramatic than Mallard because Prufrock states that time is running out and that he wants to have a purpose for his life before he dies, unlike Mallard that only felt some freedom until they found that Mallard’s husband is still alive. Under those circumstances, a conclusion can be made that Mallard and Prufrock are similar due to the emotional feelings they have and how they want to change and be different, but not everything can go their
Alfred Prufrock is lonely. There is a difference between being lonely and alone, Mallard is a good examples of being alone because even though her husband “died” she still had a family. Unlike Mallard, J. Alfred Prufrock is an example of loneliness because it states in the poem how he stands in a room full of people, nobody is talking to him and no one even recognizes him. In the poem, Alfred Prufrock doesn’t want to be lonely anymore and instead be recognized. The author puts in repetition as a way to catch the reader’s attention, for example “In the room the women come and go talking of Michelangelo” (Eliot 13-14). This portrays how everybody is talking about all of the previous accomplishments Michelangelo made, this puts “pressure” over Prufrock to so something or make something so that people can start to recognize him and he can feel that there is a reason for his life. Prufrock is more dramatic than Mallard because Prufrock states that time is running out and that he wants to have a purpose for his life before he dies, unlike Mallard that only felt some freedom until they found that Mallard’s husband is still alive. Under those circumstances, a conclusion can be made that Mallard and Prufrock are similar due to the emotional feelings they have and how they want to change and be different, but not everything can go their