Conformity is the biggest factor leading to the breakdown of character at the story’s conclusion. At the dress establishment where she works, men gravitate toward Hazel and often ask her to go out with them. Many a night is spent with the men that she meets, and from these nights come the beginnings of her conformist behavior. “Popularity seemed to her to be worth all the work that had to be put into its achievement.” She repeatedly states, “Men liked a good sport.” In other words, she acts in a way as to make the men that she goes out with like her. She becomes the good sport through her sense of humor and her la

Hazel feels like she is trapped in a life that she has no control of. People have only superficial interests in her. She dwells in the fact that no man wants her for anything but a good time. She feels like she has no way to improve herself. All these things feed into the misery that Hazel feels, and the helpless feeling that has overcome her. She would conform to what people wanted from her, and then suffer from the melancholy that was sure to follow. It was a vicious cycle that Hazel finds no escape from. Even suicide, which is supposed to be the final ending, fails her. She finds no solace in the end of the story, and it implies that she will end up back in the cycle all over again.

ughter. This is how she meets Herbie, her husband. He is instantly attracted to her because of these qualities, and they are married six weeks after they meet. Once comfortably married, Hazel begins showing other emotions. “She had not realized how tired she was. It was a delight, a new game, a holiday, to give up being a good sport.” She finds joy in crying and in sadness. “To her who had laughed so much, crying was delicious. All sorrows became her sorrows.” Herbie is not accusto

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