Love and Jealousy in The Withered Arm

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Love and Jealousy within' The Withered Arm becomes a very appetent

and large factor in the novel.

Love and Jealousy

Love and Jealousy within' "The Withered Arm" becomes a very appetent

and large factor in the novel. I believe the essay title "Love and

Jealousy are powerful emotions means and shows how love can often form

the evil and selfish jealousy, and how it easily it can change people

and make them paranoid furthermore make then act out in a outlandish

behaviour this is why I feel the essay refers love and jealousy to be

some what of 'powerful emotions.'

Brief Summary of the story

Withered arm is a story of love and jealousy, the basic plot of The

Withered Arm is that Rhoda a middle aged woman once had an affair with

a rich farmer known as Farmer Lodge. After sometime after of the

affair ending Farmer Lodge meets a young and beautiful woman called

Gertrude and ends up marrying her.

Rhoda and Farmer Lodge have a son which they have to keep secret to

hide up their previous relationship. Rhoda finds out about Farmer

lodge new love and uses his son to gain information about her, as soon

as Rhoda finds out about the beauty of Gertrude, Rhoda becomes

exceptionally jealous of Gertrude as she is young and beautiful and

everything Rhoda isn't now, furthermore she knows any hope of Rhoda

getting back together with Farmer Lodge had vanished when Gertrude

appeared of the scene, this jealousy had come to such a breaking point

that to the result of this during a night Rhoda had a real to life

nightmare of Gertrude being in her bedroom, the jealousy of Gertrude

exquisiteness had been too much for her to take and caused her to

fling this image of Gertrude off her bed.

To Rhoda's amazement she later fi...

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...ve, and the two combined can bring about almost anything.

Rhoda may have done this act to make Gertrude less desirable to her

husband and perhaps and make her self more in the running for Farmer

Lodge's love.

It is not clear whether there was actually love involved; when Farmer

Lodge married Gertrude. There is doubt that love is really the reason

why they were attracted to each other to form this bond; Farmer Lodge

may had married Gertrude for her prettiness and on the other hand

Gertrude may have married him for his wealth.

Gertrude is the one the key characters in Withered Arm; she brings a

lot of jealousy, and shows an excellent example on how love and

jealousy and can change people and make them perform actions that

wouldn't generally do. Gertrude was once married to Farmer Lodge, when

this relationship ended it was clear that she wasn't over him.

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