Comparison of Ripe Figs, The Story of an Hour, and The Storm by Kate Ch

Comparison of Ripe Figs, The Story of an Hour, and The Storm by Kate Chopin In the three short works, Ripe Figs, The Story of an Hour, and The Storm, Kate Chopin has twist into each an element of nature over which no one has control. She uses short time spans to heighten impact and bring her stories to quick conclusions. She displays attitudes in her characters in deuce of her stories which may have been very controversial at the time they were written. Ripe Figs is the shorter of the three, covering a summer in a young girls life. The figs need to mature before she can visit her cousins. At first the leaves of the fig tree were tender and the figs were little hard, green marbles (4). Each time she would slowly walk of life beneath the leaves, she would go away disappointed. Then one day she saw something that made her sing and dance the whole day long (4). The figs were ripe. However when she sit down some down before her godmother, the godmother said, Ah, how early the figs ha ve ripened this year, but for the girl, they ripened very late (4). Kate Chopins second short story, The Story of an Hour, takes hindquarters in the space of an hour, during which a wife comes to terms with the death of her husband. Upon the news of her husbands death, she wept with wild abandonment (12). After the storm of grief had spent itself (12), she went to her room alone. thither she sat in a roomy armchair (12), facing the window. She could see new life in the leaves on the trees and smell a breath of rain in the air (12). Also she could hear the sounds of life still going on a peddler was crying his wares, and the music of someone singing in the aloofness reached her, along with the sound of countless sparrows twittering in the eave... ... be free again when he sends her a message not to hurry home. Perhaps this was the unspoken relish of many women during Chopins lifetime. In summary these three short stories seem to have very much in common. The use of nature, the sh ort time frames, and the perhaps frightful attitudes of some of the characters all combine to create a sense of identity that one might expect to see in works by the equal writer. Kate Chopins style is never boring. Her stories move quickly and have great impact.BibliographyWorks Cited Chopin, Kate. Ripe Figs. literary works for Composition. 3rd ed. Ed Sylvan Barnet et al. New York Harper, 1992. 4.The Story of an Hour. Literature for Composition. 3rd ed. Ed Sylvan Barnet et al. New York Harper, 1992. 12 - 14.The Storm. Literature for Composition. 3rd ed. Ed Sylvan Barnet et al. New York Harper, 1992. 27 - 29.