Answer:
I define success as having a job that you enjoy and enables you financially, a spouse and family that loves and cares for you, children that make you proud by who they are and what they do, having the freedom to worship a loving God, and being able to contribute to the betterment of your fellow man.
Take small breaks in between
I would say the author uses irony in this passage that remembering his mother makes him not happy but miserable which may be the opposite of what is expected but he would rather suffer this than be happy in forgetting her as this latter feeling would be expected to make him sad.
<span>The word choice suggests
that the narrator sensed a disturbing feeling from the wallpaper figure’s
movements. The narrator has distinguished the pattern to be that of a woman
wanting to be free. She related herself with this woman and believed that she
is also trapped.</span>