A Stroke Of Good Fortune By Ruby Hill Analysis

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In this short story, Ruby Hill is a woman who can’t seem to grasp the thought that she is pregnant. She is afraid of motherhood and death; she takes them both as to related to each other. When Laverne announces to her that she is pregnant, she is very angry, as well as dismayed. Ruby leaves Laverne to go and think on the stairs as t runs through her head that her life is over because of the life that is now inside her. Ruby doesn’t want to accept the fact that she is pregnant and she is dreading this whole situation. “Madam Zoleeda was the palmist on Highway 87. She had said, “A long illness,” but she had added, whispering, with a very I-already-know-but-I-won’t-tell look, “it will bring you a stroke of good fortune!” and then had sat back …show more content…

Ruby’s life is nothing but “A stroke of Good Fortune”, when she finally figures out that she is with child. This story proposes radically developing post-World War II social and great qualities, for instance, women's rights and contraception. Such values were a cursed thing to a committed Catholic like Flannery O'Connor, who much of the time compared progressiveness with devilishness in her fiction. A couple of Ruby's questions about herself are repeated in the pages that take after to the point where the story can barely keep up its record drive. The record "twist," displayed as a mix of a joke and a talk on how easily we can self-deceive ourselves, is too much slight. There is little else to the story other than Ruby's self-mental trip. "A Stroke of Good Fortune" may draw out a succinct grin or even a smart snicker from the reader when she understands the confound, however there is little else to the story that endorses itself to the reader.
“Ruby consistently questions her mortality, while making pains to assert herself, to show her proper place in the world order, to show that she is better than in the others. In doing so, she seems desperate. She reaches out, repeatedly notes that children killed her parents, while also noting minor weight gain, shortness of breath, and the fact that her psychic, Madam Zoleeda, noted a long illness that would bring good fortune is afoot. From here, the plot turns on the fact that Ruby, the person who viewed children as the death of her, just might actually be pregnant. (Steven

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