The Hand Colette Summary
The Hand The Hand by Collette portrays the rather submissive and oppressed role women played and the rather dominant one that men played in the years that this story was written. Through unconscious submissive behavior of the women, her sacrificing self comfort for that of her husband's or blaming herself for his random twitches, we can see that through the standards and teaching of her society she has learned what her role is as a wife. The monstrous description of the hand shows the dominance that a husband portrays in marriage. In the 1890’s, the time this short story was written, the women roles in relationships between man and women were rather submissive and oppressed which has led to a stereotypical view of women in today’s society
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Through the laws restricting women from men they have been taught through the world around them that their suppressed role in society is the normal. More often than not, women are married adolescent and quickly through the demand of men on the women and they had no choice to resist the marriage forced upon them. In this story, the women is described to have been married young and quickly. She is described as adolescent which allows us to envision her as a younger women and the relationship between the two early in the story as, “It had been only two weeks since she had began to live the scandalous life of a newlywed who tastes the joys of living with someone unknown and with whom she is in love. To meet a handsome, blond young man, recently widowed, good at tennis and rowing, to marry him a month later: her conjugal adventure had been little more than a kidnapping.” Although the marriage is described as consented from the wife it tells us how morphed she is from society. The wife knows little about her husband, only the general and rather obvious things. She says she is joyous to live with someone she has only just met. He is also said to have been recently married. The description of the relationship between the two tells us how much say the male in a relationship has in
Through the laws restricting women from men they have been taught through the world around them that their suppressed role in society is the normal. More often than not, women are married adolescent and quickly through the demand of men on the women and they had no choice to resist the marriage forced upon them. In this story, the women is described to have been married young and quickly. She is described as adolescent which allows us to envision her as a younger women and the relationship between the two early in the story as, “It had been only two weeks since she had began to live the scandalous life of a newlywed who tastes the joys of living with someone unknown and with whom she is in love. To meet a handsome, blond young man, recently widowed, good at tennis and rowing, to marry him a month later: her conjugal adventure had been little more than a kidnapping.” Although the marriage is described as consented from the wife it tells us how morphed she is from society. The wife knows little about her husband, only the general and rather obvious things. She says she is joyous to live with someone she has only just met. He is also said to have been recently married. The description of the relationship between the two tells us how much say the male in a relationship has in