Thursday, February 10, 2011
SSRJ#3 Colette
This short story, from what I was able to interpret, focused on relationships and growing to love what you admire and don't admire about a person. A young woman in love has a change of heart when she notices her "perfect" new husband's hand and how unattractive it was. She mentions that they had only known each other for a month before they got married, which isn't exactly enough time to get to know someone. I thought that the symbolism in this story was the hand. The young woman thought that she knew her husband very well, but she later on found out something she didn't like about him. Even though she didn't like his hand, she was able to move past it and love him for who he was. I sensed that she was began to question whether or not they got married too soon; the epiphany of "The Hand" seemed to overwhelm her. I was wondering why she mentioned that her husband was newly widowed and made it seem like a positive thing? Also, did the young woman realize in the end that she was in love with him despite "The Hand", or was she just accepting the fact that she did not know her husband very well, but would stay in the marriage amyway?
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I think that the wife at first was caught-up in her husband’s good looks and athleticism and so she didn’t think about the fact that he was a widower. But she certainly started to wonder and become a little scared at the way her husbands hand was acting. In knowing that he was a widower, and how the hand seemed to resemble as though it was strangling something when it grabbed the sheets, definitely made the wife uneasy. Of course she didn’t know what her husband was dreaming about, and so really couldn’t be certain whether this was a cause of alarm.
ReplyDeleteI think at the end of the story she was realizing she was going to have to accept him for who he was. A lot of us second guess our choices and I'm sure she was as well. But, I hope that she looks past the beastly "hand" and can really love him and not just the idea of being married.
ReplyDeleteI think maybe the author was widowed before, because it mentioned she was married several times in her bio. As far as the guys hand goes I think she just started over analyzing it. Im sure you could find something wrong with everything if really start dissecting it. But yeah I think she ended up getting over it by the end of the story or at least making peace with it.
ReplyDeleteyeah I found it odd that her husband was recently widowed, how do you get over someone so soon and already remarry?
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