3 Responses

1. WP Autoblog Software

   08|Oct|2009 1

   The unfairness of this marriage is that it leaves Nora feeling like a non person. She has no identity of her own. She is simply “someone’s wife”. She tells her husband that she went directly from her father’s house to her husband’s house with no time inbetween. She was never given the opportunity to find herself. She has no education, no training, really no thoughts of her own. She is just someone’s housekeeper and womb to give him children. Most women today don’t enter into such marriages. They go to college – they have jobs and friends of their own. They have “girls night out” and things like that. Nora had none of that. Her job was to keep his house clean, give him children, take care of the children and have dinner on the table when he came home. Have you ever read The Handmaid’s Tale? It might be interesting to compare Ofglen from that book to Nora. Their situations are quite similar. Or compare this story to Hawthorne’s The Birthmark. Pax – C.

2. concerne

   08|Oct|2009 2

   It’s a very long time since I read that. But what I remember was the game/role playing the female lead had to do in order to be able to do the simplest thing – her husband was her jailer, controller, puppeteer.
   The story made me so very uncomfortable that it was very hard to read – all the dishonesty and falsehoods and masks she was forced to wear – which seemed necessary in those times.
   How lucky we are to live in these times of relative gender equality.

3. anti LOVE

   08|Oct|2009 3

   the husband (i forgot his name) treated her unfairly. he would treat her like a child and love her for her beauty. however, she used it to her advantage too to get what she wanted.