Compare And Contrast Separate Ways And A Simple Heart

In both short stories “ A Simple Heart” by Gustave Flaubert and “Separate Ways” by Higuchi Ichiyō, they are very similar. Both of these stories are touching the lives thru the characters they chose to portray to the readers. All this fits very much into the Realism movement.
In “A Simple Heart” Flaubert who was a famous realist of the nineteenth century, he uses the characters of Félicité and the parrot as a symbol of Realism. The idea that Flaubert portrays is real, everyday life events, and it’s not one that you can get overemotional stuff in romanticism. He shows this in the short story about how people spoke back in the nineteenth century and how they were described really using details in his writing thru how the middle and lower class

This is clearly shown through the characters of both Madame Aubain and Félicité who are perfect examples for this Realist story. Félicité is an example in the story who is poor and uneducated, one who is kind, and who worshipped the bird and who never gave up on anything. I believe the author who is in fact a true Realist inspired me because in “A Simple Heart” it is marked by the deaths of almost all of its characters and it also emphasizes the facts that life is limited. He also shows that Félicité’s rewards for her good life comes to an end, and she sees the Holy Spirit leading her to heaven. The relationship between Loulou and Félicité was a very strong bond because she never got married, nor had any children, and this is why the bird serves as an important part of her life and the missing link. This is emphasized in the story when Flaubert’s mentions “And as she, breathed her last, she thought she could see in the opening heavens, a gigantic parrot hovering above her head.” (Flaubert, 678). I believe this is clearly showing the reader that she is incapable of understanding

He is described as an orphan. The author Ichiyō’s main character in this story is Okyō and Kichizō. Okyō is a woman who is a seamstress and Kichizō is the sixteen year old who works in an umbrella shop. Kichizō does not have any relatives. The story opens up in the nineteenth century in Japan. The theme in this story is about togetherness, family, friends, and wealth. This story clearly shows how caring for each other is important and how the author choses to tell us through Okyō that happiness can be found in relationships. As Ichiyō writes in Separate Ways, “If only I could sew you a nice kimono, it would be a happy day. I’d gladly do it. But look at me. I don’t have enough money to dress myself properly. I’m sewing to support myself. These aren’t gifts I’m making” (Ichiyo, 882). The kimono could represent fabric that keeps Kichizō and Okyō together because as long as they have this promise they will stay in each other’s life. Ichiyō really shows the audience that it is hard to get out of poverty because as much as someone wants to make it, it is never enough to get out of it. The other thing that tells us that she is living in poverty is that she does not have enough money to clothe herself. In this story here the author Ichiyo is talking about the relationship between Okyō and Kichizō and points out the choice between living in poverty and