who gave her gonorrhea. In the late 1920s, Porter traveled to Europe and eventually moved to Paris in the early 1930s, where she became friends with English writer Ford Madox Ford. In 1938, Porter returned to the states and married a man twe...

Finally, the author expounds the heroine’s initial revolutionary qualities and her final self-realization based on the interpretation of the theme of the short story and puts forward the proposition that women should take the initiative an...