Miss Grief

Miss Grief

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Analysis

Literary Period

By Constance Fenimore Woolson

Setting

Mood

"If she were not eccentric, she would not have persisted in coming to my door day after day in this silent way, without stating her errand, leaving a note, or presenting her credentials in any shape."

"For women will misunderstand each other; and, dear and precious to me as my wife is, I could not bear that she or anyone should cast so much as a thought of scorn upon the memory of the writer, upon my poor dead, 'unavaiable,' unaccepted 'Miss Grief.' "

• The narrators home
• Mrs. Grief's home

Characterization

• Narrator
• Mrs. Grief
• Mrs. Grief's Aunt
• Simpson

• Realism
• Local Color

Theme

Male Artist vs. Female Artist

World History

Symbols

• The women's cloths
• The rain

Literary Devices

"her black gown, damp with rain, seemed to retreat fearfully to her thin self, while her thin self retreated as far as possible from me, from the chair, from everything, Her eyes were cast down; an old-fashioned lace veil with a heavy border shaded her face. She looked at the floor, and I looked at her.

• Imagery
• Foreshadowing

"I caught a glimpse of the maid, who was waiting in the anteroom. She was an old woman, shorter than her mistress, equally thin, and dressed like her in rusty black. As the door opened she turned toward it a pair of small, dim, blue eyes with a look of furtive suspense. "

Summary

Mrs. Grief makes frequent visits to the narrators home, but he is never home. When Mrs. Grief finally catches him at home he invites her in. . He agrees to read one of her works that she has left for him to critique. When Mrs. Grief calls upon his home again they discuses her work. He praises her work to start but then goes on to criticize some things. She refuses to take any of his advice and leaves with the intent to bring him another piece of her work. The last time she calls she gives him her work and falls asleep as he reads it. After he finishes a similar conversation as the previous in sues. He tries to publish her works as is but no one will take them, and he tries to rewrite them but he can't. He eventually meets Mrs. Grief's maid and is brought to see the dieing Mrs. Grief. He tells her that her story will be published and she dies happy. He never publishes her story but keeps it for himself

U. S. History

• Lived with mother
• Traveled East Coast
• Mother died in 1879

• Traveled Europe
• Meet Henry James
• Died January 24, 1894

Constance Femimore Woolson

• Born in New Hampshire 1840
• Moved to Ohio
• Traveled frequently

• Lived through the Civil War
• Her Father died in 1869
• Magazine Contributor