Analysis Of A Sorrowful Woman

In the story “A Sorrowful Woman”, the woman is suffering from depression which later caused her to commit suicide. The woman is very depressed as she does not want to be a full time wife and mother. The sight of her husband and son always makes her feel disgusted and sicked. When the husband hires a girl to manage the woman roles that the woman wished to achieve herself, this made the woman more upset which makes the woman to fire the girl. After she fired the girl, the woman started moving to the girl’s white bedroom and that’s where everything starts to fall apart as she cuts off all the contact with her family. The woman wanted to be free so bad. She doesn’t want to be a wife and mother so she tried new things. She tried new personalities, for example, she attempted to write a poem, but it doesn’t seem that she is satisfied with it. After she tried everything, she realized how many options and choices she have and the idea of having so much freedom seems to distress her.
The woman doesn’t even care for her family as she disconnects herself from her family, since she finds her home and family as a burden. She thinks that the life that she’s living right now seemed to suffocate her with the roles of being a mother and wife. In this story, I think the woman wants to portray that not all women must want to be a wife or mother, especially during the time or year of this story. And women just wanted to be independent and free like any other man just like the main character, the woman, in the