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"Managemment Of Grief" And "A Pair Of Tickets": Women's Images - College Essays

"Managemment Of Grief" And "A Pair Of Tickets": Women's Images

Both Management of Grief and A Pair of Tickets were written by women and about
women. Authors were able to portray an image of women which differs from the
traditional, stereotypical literary image of feeble and delicate creatures who
needed to be cared for. Women in these stories were faced with horrible
tragedies, but the determining element in their experience was not so much what
happened to them but how they took it.

After reading first few pages of Management of Grief one may see Shaila as
"traditional" Indian woman who due to her upbringing was not even comfortable
enough with her own husband: "I was too much the well brought up woman. I was
so well brought up I never felt ...

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Only this
time the statement is ironic. Shaila's actions show us that she is far from the
voiceless, week female she was brought up to be.

Shaila was not responsible for her own heredity. She could not control much of
her environment in which she was brought up, but she had the power and internal
strength to face the life with her individual rejoinder. She admits to being
"trapped between worlds" (543), and we can feel the internal struggle between
"traditional" and "rebellious" tendencies. It seems that Shaila does not
realize herself that "rebellious" part already won over. The last indication
of victory was the poem of love she wrote to her husband in the hospital :
"Finally he'll know my feelings for him"(541). The fact that she never told her
husband about her feelings bothered Shaila. She brought it up right after she
found out about the accident, which indicates that this was on her mind for some
time. She broke the tradition of not revealing and admitting ...

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