What happened?

After reading "A Story of an Hour," why do you think the story ends the way it does? What elements are confusing about the ending? How does this story inform the ideas you had yesterday about stories told from a mother's perspective? 

Mothers vs. Children

When we first started reading short stories, we read several stories told from a child's perspective. More recently, we've read several stories told from the perspective of mothers. We talked in class on Friday about the elements that stories told from the perspective of a child have in common. Now that we've read stories told from the perspective of mothers, do you think that those stories have some things in common? Please cite specific examples from any of the stories that you discuss in your entry and be clear which of the three stories you're discussion ("Who's Irish?" "Everyday Use" "I Stand Here Ironing").

Short story 1

How would you describe the narrative voices of the two stories? Do you think these narrators have anything in common or are they quite different? Please include examples from both stories.