There are many ways to live a full life. One way according to Mandy Hale is “Dance. Smile. Giggle. Marvel. TRUST. HOPE. LOVE. WISH. BELIEVE. Most of all, enjoy every moment of the journey, and appreciate where you are at this moment instead of always focusing on how far you have to go” (Quotes About Living Life To The Fullest). The theme of life continually appears in literature. According to authors Henry James, Stephen Crane, and Mary E. Wilkins Freeman in order to live a full life on must prioritize one’s responsibilities, fight negative circumstances and pursue endeavors that makes one happy.
In Freeman’s story “The Revolt of Mother” the mother has to make hard decisions. The father, Adoniram, decides to build a new barn where he had once promised the mother that he would one day build them a new house forty years prior. She plead with him to build a house instead of the barn, however he ignores her wishes. The mother even tells him that, “You’re lodgin’ your dumb beasts better than you are your own flesh an’ blood” (James 666). She decides after Adoniram goes on a brief trip to one have their daughter’s wedding in the new barn and two…show more content… Young Daisy in this story is a girl that does not crumble under her societies wishes. In fact, Daisy does a lot of things within the story that to her society seem distasteful before she dies. Mrs. Costello says of Daisy and her family, in the story, “They are hopelessly vulgar” and that “The girl goes alone with her foreigners” (James 439). One friend of Daisy’s, Mrs. Walker, even says “don’t walk off to the Pincio at this hour to meet a beautiful Italian” (James 442). No matter what anyone said in protest Daisy still went out and had “rendezvous with a presumably low-lived foreigner” (James 445). Daisy lived each day as her own and did not seem to care what most people thought about her and Mr.Giovanelli’s