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A Sorrowful Woman

Gail Godwin's short story "A Sorrowful Woman" depicts the life of a woman with a terminal illness in her final stage of life. The short story opens up with the wife looking at the husband and her child describing the husband as "durable, receptive, gentle; the child a tender golden three. The sight of them made her so sad and sick she did not want to see them ever again" (33). The statement of the wife portrays the sense that she is resentful for the husband's health. The word "durable" exposes to the reader that husband is strong and the wife begrudges him and the child, for she is ashamed and it pains her to see them healthy as her health is depreciating.

A pivotal point to the insight of the story comes when the wife after going on a yelling rampage tells her husband "If only there were instant sleep" (33). The aspect of the wife's illness begins to take shape with her words to the husband


The mothers preoccupation with her illness is noted when telling her husband "the girl upsets me" referring to the girl hired to help with the child. Here the hired girl represents youth and vitality with which the wife detests and consequential she fires the girl. The wife's present absence of youth and vitality is realized by seeing the girl and knowing "now the days were too short" (36) she awoke at the crack of dawn and "her fingers raced the hours" (36). The wife become conscious of her final days and wanted to leave a positive message of her own as her time came to close. She had made an assortment of food and clean laundry before drinking her concoction of cognac and a dark liquid. When the husband and the child returned home "the house smelled redolently of renewal and spring" (37), which symbolized the wife's passing and the beginning of a new life for the husband who turned his life upside down to be with

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