Question

What effect had solitude on mamzellle Aurie? Why did she cry when the children left?​

Answer 1

Explanation:

The tittle of the short story regret by Kate Chopin presents a fifty- year old Mamzelle Aurelie who unmarried women. She has never had a man and lives alone on her farm with some animals and Negroes working with her. One day, her nearest neighbor, Odile brought her four children to her house and left them in Mamzelle Aurelie’s care because of a dangerous illness of her mother. This is why Mamzelle Aurelie, who has never ever has children before has to keep them. For the next two weeks, Mamzelle Aurelie had to learn to care for the children and be accustomed to their presence and noises. At the end of two weeks, Odlie came back and released Mamzelle Aurelie from her responsibility, but Mamzelle Aurelie felt the loneliness in the absence of the four children, and she cried “like a man, not even noticing her dog liciking her hand.

Answer 2

Answer:

When with the children, she can feel all the joy of life. But after two weeks, the children had left with her mother. Mamzelle Aurélie was cried like a man. It show that her feeling of regret because she only can know about love and joy instinct a motherhood when she at fifty years old.

Explanation:

Kate Chopin presents a fifty- year old Mamzelle Aurelie who unmarried women. She has never had a man and lives alone on her farm with some animals and Negroes working with her. One day, her nearest neighbor, Odile brought her four children to her house and left them in Mamzelle Aurelie’s care because of a dangerous illness of her mother. This is why Mamzelle Aurelie, who has never ever has children before has to keep them. For the next two weeks, Mamzelle Aurelie had to learn to care for the children and be accustomed to their presence and noises. At the end of two weeks, Odlie came back and released Mamzelle Aurelie from her responsibility, but Mamzelle Aurelie felt the loneliness in the absence of the four children, and she cried “like a man, not even noticing her dog liciking her hand.