Narrative structure in "the darling” assignment

Olenka also forgot her life with Kukin because when her friends asked her go to the theater she said that she did not understand the use of theaters and that they were worthless. When she married Kukin her opinions of the theater changed; she thought it was the most important thing in her life. During her marriage with Pustovalov, “ It seemed to her that she had been in the timber trade for ages and ages and that the most imortant and necessary thing in life was timber”(238). Pustovalov was part of the timber industry.

As a result, when they got married Olenka became obsessed with all different types of timber that she would even have dreams about them. The third episode occurs when Pustovalov dies and Olenka begins to spend more time with Smirnin the veterinary surgeon. This certain episode has a lot more variation than the previous two. The difference between the relationship she had with Smirin and the other men was she was not married to Smirnin. Although she was not married to him she had no one else in her life that she became attached to him anyway.

The form of love she began to have with Sasha was motherly love. Saha was technically the new man in her life. She was now able to form opinions, but they revolved around Sasha’s work in high school. In the first two episodes the men she married were both owners of businesses. Kukin was the owner of an open air theater and Pustovalov was in the tiember industry. In both episodes she helps both men take care of their businesses. When she was married to Kukin, ” She used to sit in his office, to look after things in the Tivoli, to put down the accounts and pay the wages”(236).

When she was married to Pustovalov she “… sat in the office till evening, making up accounts and booking orders(238). ” The episode where she is all alone shows how attached she gets with people she is in love with. The other two episodes were similar because she was never married to Smirnin and had a motherly love towards Sasha. Smirnin and Sahsa were both annoyed with Olenka unlike the other two. The way Olenka becomes attached to all the men in each episode ties the episodes together into a whole.