It was nice to read these stories together because one is shown form the prospective of a woman and the other from a man. Each story has their differences, but share a commonality of "marriage".
I preferred Freeman's text over Chesnutt's because I could read Freeman's text with more objectivity and Freeman's text was more "relateable" to me. Louisa Ellis, in my opinion, is like how women should be today and I love how Freeman characterizes her with such simplicity. She is not a "sexual vixen". Just a pretty woman who did things in a "delicate...way".
It is my opinion, that women will sacrifice everything to be with a man, even their own personal happiness. Not in the story. Once Louisa overheard Jon Dagget and Lily Dyer's conversation, her mind was made up that they were not to be married; not out of pity. She was happy with her life just the way it was and she realized that it was not worth the sacrifice if he didn't even truly love her. Today, a woman will "accidental" get pregnant just to keep a guy around.
Louisa is inspirational. She is a reminder that women do not have to worry so much about a man because, no matter how long you procrastinate it off, there is always something to be done. And if you occupy yourself with these, it doesn't matter who is or isn't loving you, as long as you are making you happy, loving yourself in return.
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