Story Conflicts - Essay Example

Introduction
Our life has two sides. One, which we show to our society, and another one, is how actually we are. These two phrases contradict each other. Many times it happens that we do not show society how actually we are. There are many reasons for that like lack of confidence, shyness, fear, and inferiority complex, etc…Sometimes it happens that people around us do not like what we do or how we are, at that time we pretend to be someone, who does what they appreciate. In doing so, we feel conflict with ourselves. This paper

Analysis
“Eating lightly in public had become as habitual as good manner”.
And that is why she chooses to stay with the lie that she diets and continues eating little in public. She like herself when nobody sees her and can stay alone forever.

At her school, she meets a girl, who helps her to reduce her weight. After a tremendous struggle with her hunger and dieting, she achieves a thin body. Now everyone likes her and she get married. When she becomes pregnant, her hunger takes over, and she starts eating secretly again. After the child’s birth also continues eating a lot and again become fat as before. This proves that a person may change their thinking for little time, but soon come back to original life. She maintained her dieting for some years but soon came back to the life of a lie, showing one thing and doing something else. She is a self-centered woman. She never felt any responsibility towards her parents, and now also she is not listening to her husband, who loves her a lot. She does not like to stay with people who interrupt her in doing what she wants, whoever they are.

Another story is about a soldier, who returns home years after the war is over. His situation is totally different from the girl in the previous story. After returning back, he compares every situation at hometown with that before going to war. The entire Situation is the same except now he dislikes many things amongst them. Previously he used to lie about his life at war. He used to attribute himself to the things other had gone through. Previously he used to say or do anything to please girls, but now he thinks it is not worth saying lie anymore. He feels that he lost everything, and himself. And this is because of lies he said to everyone.

“Krebs acquired nausea in regard to experience that is the result of untruth or exaggeration, and when he occasionally met another man who had really been a soldier and the talked a few minutes in the dressing room at a dance he fell into the easy pose of the old soldier among other soldiers: that he had been badly, sickeningly frightened all the time. In this way, he lost everything.”

Now he wants simple and straightforward life without any type of complications. Now he wants truth in his life. He wishes to get rid of the entire situation created because of his untruth and exaggeration about his life and war. Now he does not want any consequences. He believes that things can get good again if he starts things that are worth doing. His parents want him to set his aim and settle down to work. His sister wants him to participate in her daily activities. Unlike the previous, now he wants to satisfy his parent’s and sister’s expectations and become a good son and brother.

Conclusion
These two stories represent two different styles of living. One, which satisfies society, and the other, is for oneself. The life of a girl is totally based on false impressions. She wants herself to be liked but without doing anything. She does not feel her responsibility toward anyone in society.

“This room will be hers soon. She considers the possibility of all the rooms and lawn, where she can do whatever she wishes”
She likes to live in her own way and her own kingdom, far from the world, where no one can oppose her doing whatever she wishes. In contrast, the boy wishes to live in the whole truth. He cares for his family and now wants to satisfy the family’s demands on the basis of truth. He understands his position in society and now wants to become part of society and fulfill his responsibilities.