General analysis on the short stories

story one "The new dress"
The new dress is about a women who has withdrawn into herself and is so self concias about her surroundings that she reacts in a paranoid way. Mabel Waring has a low self esteem mainly because of the short comings in her life and that of her family. this we are made aware of when she mentions that she never really got to marry the rich sultan she had wished for but had married an average man who had to work for a living. when Mabel Waring is invited to the party she decides to design a dress which she first finds beautiful in the setting of the workers humble working room or home however when she arrives at the grand ball she feels ridicules and ugly. the reader is given the impression that Mabel's perspective can not be trusted that all of this is in her head and that the is nothing wrong with her appearance and that the problem is within her. Mabel thinks that everybody is somehow looking down upon her and that everyone is better than her. this is emphasised when she compares herself with a fly trying to crawl out of a soccer of milk and sees everyone as a dragonfly. her sense of inferiority is such that even when she trys to imagine everyone as flays she cant achieve it. she lives the parting with the thought of accidentally finding a motivational book and being transform. how ever the reader understands that this is highly unlikely and that her life is a vicias cycle and she is not likely to change. Mabel Waring's sense of inferiority is such that she can never transform herself. the writer deliberately creates a strong contrusts between the the protagonist and setting to illustrate the core of Mabel's internal conflict. Mabel as a character never develops and the story ends with the unlikely notion of her transformation. looking at the plot Mabel wheres a dress to a party and lives in shame because she feels that she is ridicules and that everyone is aware of how preposterous she looks.