A Pair Of Silk StockingsEssay Preview: A Pair Of Silk StockingsReport this essayA Pair of Silk Stockings“A Pair of Silk Stockings” is a story about a woman who loves her children, but through an ordinary pair of stockings, realizes that she must do something for herself. The stockings gave her some freedom from just being a parent. They introduced her to a world of fantastic rewards that she greatly deserved. Mrs. Sommers didnt really change, she became a better person. The author uses imagery to describe her shopping spree and her entire day, as I will point out later on.
One day Mrs. Sommers found fifteen dollars. She thought about what she would do with the money. “She did not wish to act hastily, to do anything she might afterwards regret.” (Page 505)
Mrs. Sommers first thought was to take care of her children. She always put her children first. They needed shoes, shirtwaists and a gown for her daughter. She thought, “A dollar or two should be added to the price usually paid for Janies shoes.” “She would buy so-and-so many yards of percale for new shirtwaists for the boys and Janie and Mag. Mag should have another gown.” (Page 505)
Mrs. Sommers went shopping with her fifteen dollars. She felt a little faint and tired because she had forgotten to eat lunch. She sat on a stool near a counter. Mrs. Sommers began to feel limp all over. She rested her hand on the counter. When she looked down, she realized that her hand was laying on top of a pile of silk stockings.
After examining them, Mrs. Sommers bought a pair. She got up and decided to go the upper floor where the ladies waiting rooms were. There, she took of her old stockings. She put on the new stockings. Mrs. Sommers felt really good after putting on the new stockings. She reveled in the luxury of it. The author used imagery here to let us feel what Mrs. Sommers was feeling while wearing the stockings. She decided to buy it. She wanted, “an excellent and stylish fitand she did not mind the difference of a dollar or two more in the price, so long as she got what she desired.” (Page 506) Mrs Sommers then decided that she needed gloves. After she purchased the gloves, she felt so good that she decided that “there were other places where money might be spent.” Mrs. Sommers went on to buy two high-priced magazines. (Page 506)
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Ruth P. Eberhardt was the youngest of five siblings, married at the time of his birth to a young mother and a young father. Eberhardt was, for four days, blind, born to the same father as Mrs. Sommers: Father James, in 1829. After the birth of the child, he died a few days before, on April 11, 1833, at the age of twenty-seven. He was of medium intelligence, who was a true genius. Eberhardt and Mrs. Sommers were close. e Eberhardt had a sister, Mrs. N. S. Eberhardt was a child sister of John D. Eberhardt, a physician and a physician-son of the Reverend Edward and Mrs. Elizabeth Eberhardt. Mr. Eberhardt was a close relative to William H. and his wife, Susan Eberhardt. Eberhardt graduated of the school of theology at Providence. He taught at the School of Medicine and Physician at the Salem School. Mr. Eberhardt and Mrs. Sommers lived together. For twelve years following their marriage, Dr. John B. K. Eberhardt had received honorary degrees from the College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1889 and 1890. Mrs. Sommers married Dr. Richard Eberhardt in 1894, and they had two children, John and Alice (November 8, 1880 – June 23, 1903, and June 30, 1889). John D. Eberhardt and Mrs. Sommers had six children: a son, William Jr., born in 1910, a daughter, Elizabeth M. Eberhardt died in 1942, and his sixth son, Thomas, born in 1919. Eberhardt’s youngest six children were also members of the Society of Naturalists and Geographers, in Providence.
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Awards Published for the Best Letters
“M. J. Eberhardt & his wife, Susan & James Eberhardt, for their Best Letters in the New York Times Book Award from August 1894 to April 10, 1896. M. J. Eberhardt was honored as the nation’s first literary laureate; Eberhardt’s widow, Mary Scholz, was quoted as making the following mention: She has “the most perfect character of grace in these most distinguished of his writings, with which, of all the novels to this generation, few ever have been so excellent for their own good . . . His prose is the most eloquent, even the most difficult of all writers. He has taken an active part in many of the great literary works of his day. And from an energetic heart he is capable of all he does well, and I believe his true character is known to all. His
Mrs. Sommers was very hungry. She remembered that she did not have lunch. Usually she would go home to eat. Today, the “impulse that was guiding her would not suffer to entertain any such thought.” (
Mrs. Sommers took her gloves off. She read her magazine while she waited for the food. When the food arrived, “She tasted a bite, and she read a word or two and she sipped the amber wine and she wiggled her toes in the silk stockings.” (Page 508) Mrs. Sommers was extremely happy and content, but she still had money left over. She decided to go to the matinee.
Mrs. Sommers made a friend with another woman in the matinee. They watched