While reading stories, you want to make connections with the characters and really understand from their point of view how they are feeling. Being emotionally connected to the story is important when reading. Characters who reside more in the mind and their thoughts than in their body and their emotions, put distance between the story and the audience. Thoughts can lie. Dialogue can lie, too. However, emotions are universal, relatable and humanizing. Emotions always tell the truth. Such stories like The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka, The New Dress by Virginia Woolf, and The Road to Salvation by Pemchand are just a couple of writings that include reclusiveness, unawareness, or gluttony that change the outlook of what each of the characters think about life. The characters miss out on so much because of their …show more content…
She is a much rather older woman who is still trying to live in her youthful years. After being invited to Clarissa Dolloway’s party, she tries to keep up with the new fashion by dressing like her rich friends, but her new yellow dress is not enough. She begins to have an internal dialogue that rips her self-esteem apart. Mabel feels like an animal or insect rather, much like Gregor in the metamorphosis. Although no transformation was taken place, she saw herself as a fly and used descriptive words like dowdy, decrepit, horrible, dingy old fly. Even as a child she has this same mentality. She dreamt of marrying rich and fantasized about living in some exotic place like India. However, she married below her status which she considered it to be a failure and settled for a safe marriage. Mabel remained in a constant state of depression, unable to change her life or help herself. She tried too hard to fit in with the crowd, which left her insecure about herself. Mabel was unaware of her surroundings which kept her from having a good time and making any connection with anyone at the