Being a Servant to a King

Being a Servant to a King

“The Hand” is an intriguing story of a newlywed couple just beginning their fairy tale journey together. As the loving couple lay together one evening, the wife adoringly inspects her prince charming. She adores and admires him, and is well pleased with his physical beauty. It is at this point that she notices something awful about him. It is in plain sight, it is frightening, and monstrous. How could she have missed this thing? What else had she overlooked or missed? This is the reality and dilemma that Sidonie Colette addresses in her short story, “The Hand”. In the “The Hand” the young wife is a dynamic character because she goes from being completely in love with her husband to feeling completely submissive to him.
The young wife in “The Hand” is a dynamic character because through a series of observations during the course of one night, the wife begins to transition. The young wife starts the transition from a woman that ha...