Question One for "A Respectable Woman"
In the story, “A Respectable Woman,” Kate Chopin gives us a great deal of detail to explain how Mrs. Baroda feels towards Gouvernail. What portrait of her character comes to us from all these details? Name and explain one of her traits that you recognize from her thoughts or feelings.
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In the sorry “A Respectable Woman”, Mrs. Baroda is portrayed as a sensible person by Kate Chopin through her thoughts and feels toward Gouvernail. Before she sees him, she can picture him “tall, slim, cynical.” When she recognizes that she maybe love him，she feels had to “quit her home in the morning”to draw away from him. Being a respectable woman she is a sensible one。
Kate Chopin portrays Mrs. Baroda, from the story "A Respectable Woman" as a woman who puts her morals over her own desires. Her temptations for Gouvernail grew stronger to a point where she wanted to touch him through the sensitive tips of her fingers, but being a woman of great principles, she forced herself away by leaving her home until he leaves. Mrs. Baroda’s desires for Gouvernail are strong but her morals will always come first.
From the detailed description, one of the Mrs. Baroda’s traits is inconstancy. Before meeting with him, she regards she won’t like Mr. Governail. But without any satisfactory explanation to herself, Mrs. Barado “rather liked him when he first presented himself.” During the following days when they have the chance to know well each other, Mrs. Baroda swings between her like and dislike for her husband’s best friend. The fickleness reflects a conflict in her mind: The instinctive motivations and the societal judgments.
Mrs. Baroda is a very proud lady in the story “A Respectable Woman”. At the beginning of the story, she is curious about Mr. Gouvernail, but he doesn’t open up himself to her. She feels “piqued”. Another example is Mrs. Baroda doesn’t tell her husband what happened that night. Her pride doesn’t allow her to tell. She believes it’s a battle she must “fight alone”.
In “A Respectable Woman” Kate Chopin gives lots of Mrs. Baroda’s character portraits feelings toward her husband friend, Gouvernails. “…he tires me frightfully.” is an oxymoron between her values and desires, and her respectable behavior. . His presence, character, traits, even his voice constantly involve Mrs. Baroda in conflicting thoughts that confusing her feelings. She fights herself the human passion battle.
One of the heroine’s traits is sense. Although Mrs. Baroda sees Gouvernail a charming man and a strong temptation to her, she is clear that she is a respectable woman and goes all out to resist such temptation. Finally, she withstands and overcomes it, and successfully avoids hurting her husband and maintains the happiness of her family.
Mrs. Baroda in “A Respectable Woman” is indecisive. First of all, judging by her own imagination Mrs. Baroda dislikes her husband’s friend-Gouvernail, but days after Gouvernail’s stay, she becomes to like him and makes chances to approach him. Even though, during her struggle in honor or dishonor to her husband she decides to “draw away from him,” shows that Mrs. Baroda overcomes the temptation, but still she feels unsure about the future.
In “The Doll’s House”, some of the narrator’s comments make the readers feel unjustifiable for Mrs. Kelvey. When the narrator describes she is a “spry, hardworking” person which suppose is a compliment to her but this does not make her to become respectable. Still, all of the town’s people isolate her children and tease her family. Obviously, Mrs. Kelvey’s fate is not destined by how she does but by what the family she belongs
In the story, “A Respectable Woman”, Mrs. Baroda is a self-controlled woman. When Gouvernail comes to her and “seated himself upon the bench beside her.”, even though she has strong feeling about him, she could control herself. Also, she extremely tempts to tell Gaston about Gouvernail, “But she did not yield to the temptation.” She is a respectable woman and she realizes telling her husband about him can ruin their relationship. It shows one of Mrs. Baroda’s personal traits.
Mrs. Baroda is a romantic woman. When Gouvernail, a stranger, first presents himself, “she rather [likes] him” with no satisfactory explanation. One night, when Gouvernail talks freely about his college days and ambitions, Mrs. Baroda deeply drinks “in the tones of his voice” and even wants to touch his face “with her fingers”. Maybe she has expected to experience a wonderful special love from another man in her mind for a long time, but the real life and moral stop her.
In ,'A Respectable Woman,'Mrs. Baroda draws a negative picture of Mr.Gouvernail,but when she meets him the picture change to become her sweet feeling.She decides to stop her feeling from destroying her marriage.At the end of the story Mrs.Baroda wants Mr.Gouvernail in her life,'wholly from herself,to have visit them again.'She is a betrayer person.She promises her husband to be nice to his friend,but she is in love with the visiter.
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