Question

Comment critically on the ending on Bates’s short story ‘The Ox’.​

Answer 1

Explanation:

comment on the ending of the short story the ox

Answer 2

We need to critically comment on the ending of the story 'The  Ox'

• In the story, Bates portrays Mrs. Thurlow as a resilient strong woman with the characteristics of an ox.
• She spends her life working every single hour of her life to save money for the future of her sons.
• She loves her sons very much.
• At the end of the story, she is left without the money of her husband and her sons, and the author uses a punctured bicycle to depict the state of Mrs. Thurlow s life.
• Despite her being a strong and ox minded woman, life takes a turn that would normally crush a person's spirit but Mrs. Thurlow goes back to her house alone and to her slope with her bicycle, displaying the character of a strong Ox