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  A Respectable Woman BY --- Kate Chopkin 1. Main Characters : Mrs. Baroda : The Central Character Mr. Gatson : Mrs. Baroda's Husband Mr. Gouvernail : Mr. Gatson's college friend, and their guest 2. Plot Summary :  'A Respectable Woman' is the story of inner struggle of Mrs. Baroda.  When she comes to know that her husband's friend is coming to stay with them for a week or two, she didn't like it. Before meets him, she makes a prejudiced image of him, and decides  she won't like him. But when he comes, she finds he is not as she had imagined him to be. She wants to make him comfortable and at home by talking and accompanying him.  Gouvernail is a reserved person, so Mrs. Baroda finds it impossible to penetrate his silence although she honestly tries for it. She feels puzzled by his personality, and decides to leave for her aunt in a city the next morning. That evening as she was sitting on a bench under a tree, Gouvernail comes near him, and sits  beside he...

  Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening [By -- Robert Frost] 1. Summary :  One evening the speaker was on his journey to his destination (the place to which some one is going/ goal). He was riding through a deep dark forest. The weather too wasn't good. There was a snow fall. The woods owner used to live in a nearby village, and the speaker knew him well. But he wasn't to meet the speaker at that time because he even didn't know that the speaker was there at time in such a worst time. It was the darkest and windy evening of the year with snow fall. Even the lake was frozen in extreme cold.  The speaker was attracted by the beauty of the woods and the snowfall. He stopped his horse and started enjoying the beauty there. But his horse thought it to be quite strange to stop in the cold, dark and lonely (solitary, uninhabited) jungle, even without a farmhouse to stay there at night. He gave a shake to his harness bells to warn his master that it was a mistake on his part to st...

The Daffodils Or   (I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud) 1. Introduction of the poem : The Daffodils is a simple but an impressive poem composed by William Wordsworth in 1804.  It is an semi-autobiographical poem because it depends on a personal familial event. On April 15, 1802, the poet and his sister Dorothy went to their friends at Elsmere.  When they were returning back to Grasmere, they saw a large number of golden daffodils growing on the bank of a Lake Ullswater in the Lake District. [Lake Ullswater]   The flowers were dancing beautifully with the breeze (gentle wind). Dorothy had even written about this scene in her journal (diary).   Later on, the remembrance of the beautiful scene inspired the poet to compose this poem, and he depended on Dorothy's journal (diary) while composing this poem. When the poem was first published, its title was 'I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud', which is also the first line of the poem.  This line indicates about the loneli...