Life Lessons In Gwilan's Harp, And The Last Leaf

In these Stories “Gwilan’s Harp” by Ursula K. LeGuin, “The Washwoman” by Isaac Singer, and “The Last Leaf” by O. Henry, the characters experience great life lessons, each character understands and grasps the life lesson when they feel as if they have hit rock bottom, in “Gwilan’s Harp” Gwilan realizes that she can sing and her life does not end when her husband dies and her hands are too stiff to play the harp, finding a new self-worth in herself. The “Washwomen” A poor humble hard working wash women, works without complying and to the best of her abilities, inspiring the people that she washed for to work and not complain and know that your job will never stop until God calls you home. Finally, “The Last Leaf” this shows the that God has bigger plans for people then what they think, Johnsy thinks she will die, Then once she realizes that she won’t die, she realizes that she has sinned and by selfish and sees a purpose in life. All these stories share similarly life lessons, the Purpose

In the story her son has his wedding and does not invite his own mother to his wedding but she went anyway, not caring what her son thought of her, then winter came and she became terribly ill and on deaths door, but she finished the last wash she would do and returned it to the family barely able to make it and said “I could not rest easy in my bed because of the wash… The wash would not let me die.” (Singer) then she collected her pay and left and never came back again, she died that night on her way home, God said it was time to go and she was gone, and the family realized that this women was from God and the lesson she taught about hard work, perseverance, discipline, and loyalty show all these characteristics over and over again, until her