ENG 1100C Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Afterall
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Literature: approaches to fiction, poetry, and drama (underlined) New york: mcgraw-hill, 2008, pages# of story. ie:201-205. This story has a # of different ironies. Freedom: she has some sort of emotion that causes her to cry, is it for the death of her husband or for her freedom, she"s young, but life hasn"t been the best, her eyes are gray/dark. Significant to the life she had with husband: she"s expressing this overwhelming feeling of freedom, tries to repress it but couldn"t, finally accepts it, free, free, free . Sense of relief & sense of excitement. Eyes no longer have that dull stare. Leans to a sexual feeling, the rush of an excitement: once she gets over the funeral, she will have all the years ahead of her for her own enjoyment, she will live for herself (irony) Usually, to be happy, you live for someone else.
