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Turned Charlotte Perkins Gilman Analysis

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The first prose, Turned by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, consists of varying views from two different women in a time setting that is most likely in 1911. They are both crying, perhaps over the same person because that person had likely passed away. One of the “sobbing” women is Mrs. Marroner, the wife of Mr. Marroner. The other sobbing woman in the prose is Gerta Petersen, the almost adoptive daughter but really a servant girl of Mr. and Mrs. Marroner. In the passage, it is known that Mr. Marroner “had to go abroad for his firm,” Mr. Marroner tells Mrs. Marroner “to take care of Gerta and get her ready for college” and for “Gerta to take care of Mrs. Marroner” in his absence. He had reassured them that trip would only take “a month at the latest.” However, Mr. Marroner, had been away for seven months without seeing both Mrs. Marroner and Gerta but he had written to Mrs. Marroner about how he “deeply regretted the delay,” “how …show more content…

Marroner was facing at his firm. The women have displayed reactions of those who are mourning a death of some sort. The death, in this case, is that of Mr. Marroner himself. This is claimed because there is a huge instance of foreshadowing that occurs when Mr. Marroner writes to Mrs. Marroner “that if [he] should be eliminated from [her] scheme of things, by any of those ‘acts of God.’” This is foreshadowing Mr. Marroner’s death because one would only expect to die when God decided to eliminate someone from the grand scheme of things. Unlike Mr. Marroner’s prediction of Mrs. Marroner not being affected by his death, she is seen to be very affected by his death. This is seen by how “she sobbed bitterly, chokingly, despairingly” and how “her shoulders heaved and shook convulsively”. This reaction is usually seen with people who have just found that they have lost a loved

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