My Heart Is Broken


        My Heart Is Broken resembles how sexually harassed women are treated in nowadays society. After Jeanie, the protagonist, was raped, there is no one to protect her or comforts her but people either blame her or is indifferent about the situation.
        Mrs. Thompson continuously speaks as if Jeanie is the one who is responsible for the incident she had experience. Mrs. Thompson, blaming her for going out in high heels and “with purse on your(Jeanie’s) arm and a hat on your(Jeanie’s) head”, resembles the people who blame the victim for wearing short pants or skirt.
        The attitude of Vern, a husband of Jeanie, is another key feature of this story. Vern shows indifference toward his wife and the incident itself. Through the last part of the story where Jeanie talks about Vern, it can be inferred that Vern did not care about his wife even before the incident. Such attitude reflects the people who do not care about the victims' emotion and the mental damage that one would have got from the violation.
        The story is straight forward in terms of expressing its theme. It is not only the violation itself but also how others react which also damages the victim. Though it has been long since the story was written, society has little changed from them. The protection of the victim is insufficient and the attitude of the people around one makes one harder to bear the situation. The society around one blames the victim or shows no attention to one.


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  1. Garrioch2019년 6월 23일 오후 6:27

    Thank goodness Jeanie's story isn't really "nowadays" to the same extent it was (even 5 years ago). And you are right about the "straightforward" nature of the story, which doesn't prevent any reader from really discussing what matters. However, the story has layers and we get an opportunity to see that it is often women repressing other women in similar ways that men repress women. To what extent Mrs. Thompson does so is one of the main things to discuss, because there are so many hints of both sympathy and even empathy even as she says some regrettable things.

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