Question

The short stories “A Respectable Woman” and “Was It a Dream?” both suggest a connection between love and secrecy. Use evidence from both texts to analyze how love relates to secrecy.

Answer 1

Both stories represent the ironic endings of love and the suspense and the narration of love.

Explanation:                                                                

• In both of these stories, the female characters will hide their secrets from their lovers. In the story of "respectable women", the female is attracted to her husband and she was thinking about how to tell her husband. She stopped thinking about that thought.
• In “Was It a Dream" story the female will cheat on her lover before she was dying. In both of the stories, they will undermine loving relationships.