Betrayed: A Story of Three Women (1995)

In the frame story, Shahryar was betrayed by his wife. And it made him believe that every woman eventually betrayed him. Thus, every night for three years he took his wife and let her die the next morning until he married a beautiful intelligent girl Scheherazade. Because of 1001 consecutive nights, Scheherazade talked to Shahryar on a cliff at dawn and forced her to live a day to let her finish the story the next day. After she talked about Shahryar's 1001 story, she told him he had no more stories to tell him. But among these stories Shahryar grew into a sensible ruler and rekindled his trust in women.

{308} Just like every male talker speaks of his story, someone briefly explains the story of a woman at some point. The story of these three women - gradually becoming autobiographical and becoming a feminist - in the novel constitute a trilogy of women's stories, ironically to the story of three people. A brief discussion of the pursuit of these three will provide us a background to examine women's lives and men's rhetoric, as they mediate between readers and these stories.

Next reading in this module is Edith Wharton's "Rome Hot". The story is a senior woman, now a widow with a child, has grown up together and has always made this natural competition. Mrs Slade revealed that she betrayed her friend and wrote a memo to Mrs. Ansley by falsely Slade said he met him when he was a teenager. When Mrs Slade went to see him, she not only was betrayed by her friends but also that she was betrayed by her fiancé as he appeared. There are two reasons for betraying this story. The first one was Mrs. Ansley, Slade betrayed Mrs Slade. Both sides attracted each other and kept secrets, so Mrs Slade was betrayed by both. The reason why Mrs Slade betrayed her friend is that Mr. Slade explained the pretense