In The Captain's Doll the intruder situation is more complex, as at the start of the story it is the Countess Hannele who is intruding upon Captain Hepburn's marriage. ... However the heroine, March, is described as being "so odd and absent in herself-, implying an emptiness in her life that is echoed in Captain Hepburn in The Captain's Doll. ... The fowls here are representative of her life - she is safe in her "cage- or house with Banford, however she has a dark and irrational urge for freedom from the cage, to be devoured and mastered by the masculine figure of the fox. ... H...

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Falling in love with several men, none of whom were her husband, sending her children away, moving out of her house, not continuing with her passion for painting, suicide; in all of these circumstances, and more, an example of indecisiveness and the desire to renounce something is present. My main reasoning for her sudden independence was that she was all along treated like a doll: " You are burnt beyond recognition, he added, looking at his wife as one looks at a valuable piece of personal property which has suffered some damage- (Chopin 201). ... The same line of reasoning goes into why sh...

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• Grade Level: High School