Melissa, a woman whom the men fear and tried to keep under perpetual control, is a symbol of all the women of the civilization of the setting of the story. Through that lens, Melissa has lived for centuries. Now, she decides to stand up in front of the men who have been rocks, mountains and oceans to her for those ages.
She takes a chance, missed and faces imprisonment for the rest of her natural life.
All things been equal, anyone is going to think that something is wrong with her when Melissa said that she doesn't want anyone to feel sorry for her. Then, by the end of this fantastic piece she provided a satisfying remedy to that thought saying that she would only find true freedom behind the bars of the prison. She concluded that when a person (woman) is unable to experience life intensely as the man does, she only exists and not alive.
By sending her to the prison she craves, those who punish her by incarceration, lost. Melissa who remains unbowed in the face of the wars that raged in her life won with a new precedence of reverential fear of the woman. Fearing A Woman: It's Where Wisdom Starts And Ends With Us
She takes a chance, missed and faces imprisonment for the rest of her natural life.
All things been equal, anyone is going to think that something is wrong with her when Melissa said that she doesn't want anyone to feel sorry for her. Then, by the end of this fantastic piece she provided a satisfying remedy to that thought saying that she would only find true freedom behind the bars of the prison. She concluded that when a person (woman) is unable to experience life intensely as the man does, she only exists and not alive.
By sending her to the prison she craves, those who punish her by incarceration, lost. Melissa who remains unbowed in the face of the wars that raged in her life won with a new precedence of reverential fear of the woman. Fearing A Woman: It's Where Wisdom Starts And Ends With Us