Gail Godwin's A Sorrowful Woman

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The short story “A Sorrowful Woman,” by Gail Godwin is a great representation of a emotional romance. The plot and setting help the reader understand the story as a mysterious and ominous. Godwin uses many writing techniques that a good writer would use when writing a story and help describe many key points while using vivid imagery to help the reader get a better understanding of her stories. According to her stories she support feminism to make an argument towards today's society over a span of forty years as a professional writer. To help support my claims, she uses various styles of connecting words in her writing. Thus, in result helps her become a known author because her certain writing style and her opinions on
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