The Hand

Young marriage, is it sometimes rushed into? A young marriage described in “The Hand” In “The Hand”, by Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette, the plot centers around the idea of a young couple that just got married and are lying in bed alone while the husband sleeps and the wife remains awake. The more central character would definitely be the wife while she is also dynamic in the story. Colette is considered one of the significant feminist of …

…her feminist attributes as she bases the entire story around the wife’s thoughts. The conflict arises when the wife notices the beastly appearance about her husband that she had yet to notice, but in the end it is resolved when the wife puts aside her fear and kisses the hand. She realizes that her commitment came way too soon, but she was going to live with the “resignation” she had made in the end.