Short Stories

Miss Brill, The Story of an Hour, and The Hand all demonstrate that fiction is often based on real life. In Miss Brill, we see that the voyeuristic life of a lonely woman is akin to unmarried women without families. In The Story of an Hour, We see a wife who drops dead upon finding out her thought to be dead husband is alive. She does so because she feels oppressed in a relationship where the male is always in control. In The Hand, a newly wed discovers her husband's masculinity and potential brutality are repulsive to her since she will be kept in an inferior position because of it in the relationship. All three depict the realities of women living in a man's world.

In Miss Brill, we see that Miss Brill is lonely. She lives life as an observer not a participant. She is like many unmarried older women who must take solace i

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