Reading Ain't Easy

The beginning of the assigned reading made one very important distinction for me. I do not know how to read. I see the letters and can pronounce the words but sometimes I really don't put myself into some of the things I say I've read before. Now, I'm not gonna try and analyze every single sentence in a book, but I definitely got a new perspective on how to approach literature. All the stories that were in the reading were great. They all seemed to center on the theme of a woman who is afflicted by something in her life. In "The Story of an Hour", it was Louise's feelings of imprisonment in her marriage. In "A Secret Sorrow", it was Faye's inability to have children and lastly, in A Sorrowful Woman, it the woman seemed to be suffering from a major case of depression. The connection of love was something else that brought all three stories together whether it made someone feel that it took away their life like Louise, or couldn't exist for Faye, but in A Sorrowful Woman, it was not so much just the wife's difficulties as the whole family. I really liked the last story because it showed how one person's condition can really affect those around her and the difficulties she went through as well as the whole family. The close readings also showed alot of how simple phrases give an insight of what type of ideas the author might want the reader to have. All very insightful.