Analysis of Gail Godwins A Sorrowful Woman :: Godwin Sorrowful Woman

Analysis of Gail Godwins A Sorrowful Woman   Gail Godwins short recital A Sorrowful Woman revolves around a wife and dumbfound who becomes overwhelmed with her husband and child and withdraws from them, gradually shutting them completely out of her life history. insatiable with her role as dutiful mother and wife, she tries on other roles, besides finds that none of them satisfy her either. She is accustomed to a specific role, and has a knotty time coping when a more extensive array of choices is presented to her. This is do clear in this section of the story.   As a housewife and a mother, Godwins protagonist leads a fairly structured life. Her activities argon mostly wrapped to caring for her husband and child and caring for their home. Though she is obviously insatiate with this, as shown by her attempts to discard this role, she is not comfortable without such a structure. Even when she has moved into the white elbow room, she develops a routine of brushing h er tomentum in the sun each day. When she decides to write a poem, she shies away from the make once she realizes how m whatsoever options are open to her the idea of so frequently freedom seems to distress her. Even when she thinks that her poem could be six, eight, ten, thirteen lines, it could be any number of lines, and it did not even have to rhyme, the words themselves are rushed, the pacing of the sentence communicating her nervousness and discomfort.   Her dissatisfaction with her role in life also leads Godwins protagonist to try on other roles. Though she tries on many, none of these seem to satisfy her either she tried these personalities on resembling costumes, then discarded them. Her inability to find any role that in truth satisfies her probably contributes to her general sense of helplessness and continued insularism from her family and, indeed, the stick of the world. Since she cannot find any particular role that suits her, she attempts not to have any ro le at all the coldness and isolation of the undecorated white room make it seem that she is trying to empty herself of her previous life.   Her withdrawal from the world is also presented in this passage. She chooses to move into the white room, now no longer decorated by the previous inhabitant. White can be a very cold, sterile color, and it serves to illustrate her lack of attachment to the room or to her own home.