My first response after reading this story is that the two is headed for despair. Mabel again does not know what she is going to do. To save a life, the noble doctor has hurled himself into a vast disagreement. The conflict in this story is that Mabel does not have anywhere to go after her family loses their housing estate. Mable has been the concierge of the home and now with everything gone and the older siblings going their own way, she is left alone. The conflict is resolved to a certain degree, because she has discovered a new life path in the noble doctor. Then again, the conflict will once again surface because the two of them are very hesitant if marriage is the correct thing to do. To me at the time that this story takes place, the correct thing to do generally after seeing …show more content…
She begins as the befitting younger sister who had a face that was very hard to look at. As the story moves on, she displays the dynamic as a disheartened child mourning for her mom. Later on, in the story, Mable becomes a gawky lover who endlessly portrays her flaws to the doctor. As her character alters, the idea of meager old Mabel what is she going to do with herself remains the same. The womenfolk took care of the household and this woman was barely perceived by men. The irony of the story is that Mabel ultimately found a life to look up to just like her siblings had. Her life could carry on like her siblings. She could take care of the home that she and the noble doctor had together and rear their family if they got married. Still, the two were too fearful to tell on another they thought they were making a blunder. The tone of the story is sarcastic, depressed and a little saddening. It is ironic that Mable finally found reason in her life. It is miserable and depressing that it will probably not work out and she would still be left with a life just like the first lines of the story, “Well, Mabel, and