A family is a member of people living in a household. The eastern society, family is the most essential part of the life because the roles and duties of families define the reputation of families. What happen if family failure to do his or her responsibilities? The consequences of the result are affected by the family. Jealous, selfishness, unfriendly, not familiar with neighborhood, disputes, and spying are the factors that destroy the family reputation. Therefore, it is most important to understand the roles and responsibilities of the family to make the betterment of the family. “A Sorrowful Woman” narrated by Gail Godwin is a story of a woman who, overthinking with her responsibilities as a mother and a wife, with her responsibilities and roles and she is overpowered her duties, and she decided to withdraw from the family.
The narrator states in his story a woman's duty as a wife and a mother in a house starts to become unusual, and she is not satisfied with it. She tries her best to satisfy herself by …show more content…
He gave birth of her children, but she becomes careless of her children. Her children want to play with her, but she ignores it by screaming. She always feels tired of doing thing at home. Everyone is working at home, being a good husband and wife makes families happy. The narrator states in a story of “A sorrowful woman” He got up an hour early did the shopping, cooked the breakfast, took the boy to the nursery school (Godwin, 1996).” She got a good husband who is doing everything for her, not only for her but for his child. Husband has good character in the story and wife has crazy character. The woman’s egoism can be vividly mentioned in the statement “she was a young queen, a virgin in a tower (Godwin, 1996).” She is a male dominant woman because she is always aggravated with her husband and her child, and being a wife and husband in the setting has equal rights and duties to do with the