Past Needs, Future Wants Essay | Essay

This student essay consists of approximately 4 pages of analysis of Past Needs, Future Wants.

Past Needs, Future Wants Essay | Essay

This student essay consists of approximately 4 pages of analysis of Past Needs, Future Wants.
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Past Needs, Future Wants

Summary: Analyzes the short story, Wants. Describes how the main character feels empty after devoting herself to her husband and family for 27 years of marriage. Explores how she evolves to grow as a human being.
A human being has a natural desire to have more of a good thing than he needs (Twain). When two people who love each other very much, divorce each other, most of the time they both want nothing to do with the other one. Other times one of the two might be devastated and feel that his/her entire life was left behind with that x amount of years. In the story, Wants, the woman feels that all her passion, love, and devotion in her life were given to her husband, but now they are apart. In the story the woman's disposition and desire to her husband are highlighted by these three attributes: How all her feelings were left with her husband for the 27 years of marriage, her devotion to her husband and family for all those years, and how she changes herself to grow as a human...

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