3 aspects you enjoyed about the writing:
- Chopin entices her audience with vivid imagery, “The delicious breath of rain was in the air. In the street below a peddler was crying his wares. The notes of a distant song which some one was singing reached her faintly, and countless sparrows were twittering in the eaves.”
- “When the doctors came they said she had died of heart disease--of the joy that kills.”, this ironic and dark ending has either a humorous approach or a crush of hope. AS audiences we were built up with the hope that Louise would finally live life with independence only to be let down and “killed” by the sudden resurrection of her husband. It is also comical as her death can be thought of as her being so grateful that her husband is alive, she died in shock.
- How the build up towards her freedom was destroyed with one sentence. Her death.
2 things that make this writing unique:
- Instead of having her writing be big paragraphs, she divides them further down to keep the reader’s interest, and make them think they haven’t read much at a time.
- How Chopin built concluded her story with not just one but two plot twists.
1 question you wish you could ask the author:
How would you have predicted that women now view marriage as compared to your times?