MARRIAGE

Marriage

Marriage

Introduction

The most controversial issue of all times is the depiction of male / female supremacy in general and marital relationships. Nonetheless, while studying the role of men and women within the marriage, a lot can be learned about the failed or unsteady marriages. The assessment of gender based responsibilities and matrimony are observed all the way through the following short stories I'm Going! A Comedy in One Act and The Secret Life of Walter Mitty. Careful analysis of both of these literary works, quite evidently illustrates the effects of socioeconomic class distribution on marriages.

Discussion

Since the beginning of time, numerous concepts on the mighty standing of marriage have been emphasized upon, for instance: Marriage is an establishment. A happy wife makes for a happy life. Love and marriage go together like a horse and carriage. These notions helped to define and stereotype the gender role s of male female in the marriage (Wilkinson, 2009; one of the religious examples quoted widely is of Adam and Eve, in which while Adam went out into the world during the day facing and naming different ferocious animals Eve was at home talking to reptiles (Goodman, 1996). The participants' role in every union is defined after a short span of time. In literature, the roles are designated to both genders and matrimony is depicted in several ways, varying from the submissive, timid wife to the husband who just edges near his breaking point earning bread for his family. This perspective is obvious in such short stories as The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, I'm Going! A Comedy in One Act, and The Story of an Hour.

Women have conventionally been thought as less strong gender in matrimony; in addition to it is exceptional to have a fair and evenhanded bond significance regarding analysis. The case with these stories is that, whenever women enjoy, or try to seize added authority in the association, it rarely ended in a better-off coexistence. Eve's longing to achieve knowledge at the end of the day led to the descent of man, so if the female turns out to be the governing spouse, it could lead to the disastrous relationship?

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

James Thurber is one of the best American humorists. When Harold Ross, joined the New Yorker in 1927, he told the then young collaborator James Thurber that, everyone believes in mastering English, but nobody actually maters it. However, Thurber a writer who was to become, alongside names such as Dorothy Parker and Truman Capote, one of the authors of reference of the legendary New Yorker magazine (Johnson, 1998). Millimeter observations and tireless storyteller, Thurber's stories entertain us, drive us, we open a clear sky that glimpse, beyond irony, the frustrations of modern man.

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, the most famous of his stories that our selection title, served even to baptize as "Walter Mitty syndrome" the compulsion to fantasize that some men escape-heroically in their own way of rigid and dull routine of what we agree to ...