Are women better off without marriage? In Dorothy Parker’s poem’ Penelope, and Kate Chopin’s short story, The Story of an Hour. The authors emphasize that women at the time wanted independence. Chopin and Parker support their claim by describing women being unhappy in their marriage. They use tone and irony in order to reveal their idea to the world by writing. Chopin’s “Story of an Hour” uses verbal irony and tone to describe women’s unhappy marriages. In the “Story of an Hour”Chopin portrays
Dorothy Parker’s poem “Penelope” suggests that the role of men is glorified while the role of women is under appreciated, and unrecognized. The title of this poem alludes to Odysseus’s wife, from The Odyssey in which Odysseus had been lost for ten years and Penelope is left alone with her son. The poem is written in Penelope’s point of view and it explains how she feels while Odysseus is away. Parker uses rhyme scheme and tone, personification or animalistic description, and symbolism to show her