Tuesday, October 25, 2011
Journal #10
Reading The Wife of his Youth, by Chesnutt, ended very surprisingly. It is such an incredible moment of fate for that to happen. As I was reading the story, I started becoming a little confused on where it was going. It just had random segments of introduction about Mr. Ryder's current life and his relations with Ms. Dixon. The story continue's to lead to a love tale to Ms. Dixon by Mr. Ryder as he emphasizes her perfections. Then ironically the little old woman, Liza, comes in to the story, portrayed the quite opposite of Ms. Dixon, and by then I am confused about this whole story, wondering where this going and what not. And the dialogue of Liza was near impossible to fully understand so that didn't help the situation. Then as I continued to read through the end to learn that he was the man Liza has been searching for along. I had no clue that would be coming and I reread that last segment another time and I came to understand. He is today because of whom he was in the past, and that no one can escape their past. But he embraced it and welcomed his past and he did so in such a fashionable manner. I was taken by surprise about how he handled the manner. He did such an honorable act by embracing the wife of his youth and his past. The wife of his past helped drive him to the status he holds, all those events come together, and it was destiny that finally brought them back together.
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