The Darling

"The Darling" is a realism story that is really annoying and it stinks. There is truly no plot what so ever and this woman complains about how her life is so awful without someone telling her exactly what to say and do. The girl does not have her own opinions or views on anything but simply follows what her spouse or someone that she cares about tells her to think. The minute she finds a new husband she jumps right into his life and does what he wants and does nothing for herself, which affects her greatly when they each die. She has nothing after they past away and it makes her a miserable person that no one wants to be around. "She wore a black dress with weepers, having vowed never to wear a hat or gloves again, went out seldom and then only to church or to her husband's grave, and lived at home like a nun" (Chekhov 562). She did not make the outside connections to other people but was solely devoted to her husband and his work. She became that weird woman with cats who does not leave her home when she was not with someone. Emerson and Thoreau would hate this idea of belonging to someone else and needing someone else to be happy. This woman has to have someone in her life to make her feel good about herself. "Olenka could explain everything and give her opinion on any subject you liked, whereas now her mind and heart were as empty as the yard outside"( Chekhov 563). With the influences of others she used their opinions and never really gathered her own or thought about things and just took what others said as right. Thoreau and Emerson were for the power of the people to make their own decisions and this woman does nothing for herself at all. She is someone that Emerson and Thoreau would not associate with during the normal day.

Chekhov, Anton."The Darling." Comp. Jeffrey D. Wilhelm, Ph.D. and Douglas Fisher, Ph.D. Glencoe Literature. American Literature ed. Columbus: McGraw-Hill Companies, 2009.557-565. Print.