Characters in the stories we have read so far this semester have been faced with a multitude of problems, emotions and impulses to work through. It seems that from three stories the characters carry out very different actions, but they all have an underlying bond, selfishness and the desire to be something there not. It also seems that they are judged in the eyes of the narrator, as either succeeding or failing due to the way they carried themselves throughout the story. In the short story, “A Pair of Silk Stockings”, by Kate Chopin, the main character, Mrs. Sommers, after finding fifteen dollars plans do things with it for her kids