Male/Female Relationships

        There are different kinds of male and female relationship with different people.  In the following paragraphs I am going to try to explain in my own words about the female and male relationship that I read about in class.  I am going to try to describe a diverse kind of love, a dominant, a pure love, a wounding and a communicative relationship.

        In the story “The Lady or the Tiger” the princess and her lover had a diverse kind of love for each other.  “Often had she seen, or imagined that she had seen, this fair creature throwing glances of admiration upon the person of her lover, and sometimes she thought these admirations where perceived and even returned”.  “How and then she would seen them talking together; it was but for a moment or two, but much can be said in a brief space; it may have been on most unimportant topics; but how could she know that?”  “Without the slightest hesitation, he went to the door on the right, and opened it.  The first two quotes make you realized that the princess was very jealous and that all of the time she was there she was thinking of all the things that her lover and the one gorgeous girl would do.  Jealousy is one of the things that make them have such a diverse relationship.  On the last quote it shows how the lover trusted her by opening the door without hesitation.
        In the story “The lottery” Bill and Tessie there was a
dominant relationship.   “I think that we ought to start over, Mrs. Hutchison said.”  “(Ready, Bill?)Mr. Summers asked, and Bill Hutchinson, with one quick glance around at his wife and children, nodded.”  “Bill Hutchinson went over to his wife and forced the slip of paper out of her hand.”  In the first two quotes it shows how Tessie wanted something to happen but Bill didn’t even look at her and went ahead and finish the lottery.  The last quote shows how he takes the paper out of Tessie hand by forcing it out which shows that he was the one in charge of the relationship.
        In the story “A Haunted House” the dead old couple had a pure love relationship.  “From room to room they went, hand in hand, lifting here, opening there, making sure—a ghostly couple”.  (“Here we slept” she says.  And he adds, “Kisses without number.”) “Walking, I cry (“Oh, it this your buried treasure?  The light in the heart”)” The following quote show the pure love of the dead old couple.  The first two quotes that I put where because the dead old couple talked to themselves with so much love.  The last quote I wrote because they finally found what they where looking for the light in the heart.  When I think about the light in the heart it makes me think about love because love gives people light.

        In the story “The Jilting of Granny Weatherall” Ellen and George had a wounding relationship.  “For sixty years she had prayed against remembering him and against losing her soul in the deep pit of hell, and now the two things were mingled in one and the thought of him was a smoky cloud from hell that moved and crept in her head when she had got of Doctor Harry and was trying to rest a minute.”   “Don’t let your wounded vanity get the upper hand on you.  Plenty of girls get jilted.” “Find him and be sure to tell I forgot him.”  In the first quote it talks about how she prayed and prayed for sixty years to forget about him and how George jilted her.  I think that it had to be kind of deep to remember it for sixty years. In the second quote it shows how she tells herself she has to forget about the jilted and that is not something really bad that many people get jilted, that she is not the only one.  The last quote talks about how she forgive George for what he did to her but, I think that she was being a little bit sarcastic because she keeps on talking about it.

        In the story “The Chrysanthemum” Elisa and the Henry had a communicative relationship.   “Henry, who where those men you where talking to?”  “Why, sure that’s what I came to tell you.”  “Good, she said”.  The following quote show why I think that Elisa and Henry had a communicative relationship because they shared information very well.  They did not show that they had a bad relationship at all which means that they had very good communicative skills.

        Male and female relationships are quite different in all of the stories that I read in class.  The thing that kind of made a connecting with all of them it that they were all couple relationship.  The stories that I think mostly went together was “A Haunted House” and “The Chrysanthemum” because they sort of had or have that loving relationship.  All of the other stories did not really connect in any kind of way.