Essay #2: Comparative Analysis

"The Story of an Hour" & "A very short story"

In life making the right decision on time may influence our future life. On a daily bases we live situations that mark or determinate our lives. Also we live situations that sometimes we don't know how to understand them or apply them to our lives, because these are an indicative of what we should or shouldn't do. If we don't know how to manage them they could affect our lives. "The Story of an Hour" and "A very short story" are stories that can help us understand why this things happen and the problems that we can have if we don't make the right decision in the right moment. Both stories show the importance of knowing how to make the right decisions in life.

In "The Story of an Hour” we see how Mrs. Mallard lived an unhappy life with her husband, and sometimes would think she loved him and other times she didn't think so. When knew that he had died in a matter of minutes she reflected about how was her life besides her husband. And while doing so, she didn't see her life but the life her husband had obligated her to live. Knowing of his death, her innerself went free and lets her see what she can do know that she is free. Unfortunately she dies when sees and knows that her husband is alive. She died of “happiness” or “pain”. We can see how fast life can change; this is why we have to know how to make the right decisions in life.

In "A very short story" Luz has been for months with a man who she thinks
she loves. They are not married but think they should get married. Time passes and the obstacles make her believe that getting married wouldn't be the right choice. So she decides to break up the relationship for there own good. Because of his end we see that she makes the right choice.

These two stories have something in common, and it is that both of them makes us analyze the fact of making the right decision and how they may affect us. Luz made the right decision when she decided to break up her relationship, probably because of all that she had passed through wouldn't have taken her to a happy ending. Probably if Luz would’ve married him, her life, as we see the ending, it wouldn't have been the best choice or maybe very similar to Mrs. Mallard. On the other hand Mrs. Mallard late discovered that she had not made a right decision in her life and when she ‘woke up” and desired to live a better life and change her life, it was too late and her heart didn't allow it. Unfortunately today most people make choices very rapidly and end up making wrong ones, without thinking in the consequences of there decisions.

I believe that these two authors want us to see life like it comes at you only once, and this is why we need to make the best out of it. We have to know how to make right decisions. When life comes at you with difficulties or situations, we have to make the right choice and see what life itself indicates. Luz and Mrs. Mallard are examples of how important for our lives to make a wise decision.