The Hand: Rose Colored Glasses
The love that a woman can possess towards a man can be the strongest love that she will ever know. However, many women confuse love with adoration. This confusion can lead to heartache and a life of submission. When a woman adores a man, she is viewing him through rose-colored glasses and calls it love. It takes a lot for a woman's love to waver, but her view on the man can change as easily as the wind blows. In Colette's "The Hand," and in Munro's "Prue," each woman changes how she feels about her man, and yet in the end, she remains with him. As with any typical new bride, the young wife in "The Hand" adores her new husband. "...she proudly bore the weight of the man's head..." (220). Another reason why the young wife adores her new husband is because she is no longer a little girl because of him. "...the blue of the brand-new curtains, instead of the apricot-oink through which the first light of day filtered into the room where she had slept as a little girl." (220). In "Prue," the main character, Prue, posses an adoration for her man, Gordon, even though he is not her husband. It is not a lovin
g adoration, but more of an adoration of his status. When she talks to friends about him, she has to mention things that pertain to his status such as "Do you know that there are four bathrooms [in his house]?" (455). Prue is in Toronto because of Gordon, even though her children and the townspeople hope that is not the reason why. The similarity between these two women is that their relationships are based on adoration. This similarity plays a very important part in the endings of each story. In the end of "Prue," Prue starts the cycle that she is living with Gordon all over again by taking the cufflink from his dresser. When she goes home and puts the cufflink in the tin, it shows how long she has been a part of this cycle. Prue puts something into this tin every time that she wants to forget about something. "She just takes something, every now and then, and puts it away in the dark of the old tobacco tin, and more or less forgets about it." (457). Prue does not want to realize that Gordon will never be solely hers, but the old age of the tobacco tin and the number of trinkets in it begin to show Prue the truth. The cycle
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Approximate Word count = 768
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)
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