The Five Stages of Grief:
1. Denial
2. Anger
3. Bargaining
4. Depression
5. Acceptance
The woman in the story does not seem to follow these stages, reaching Denial ("What if they aren't lying pinned under the debris?") to Anger ("You think we're smuggling contraband in those coffins!"). But Bargaining and Depression never seem to come for the unlucky main character. She displays amazing courage and mental fortitude by holding her resolve on nearly every occasion and not sinking into uncontrollable depression that so many victims of tragedy do....we should all be so strong.
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It's interesting how you compare the narrator's expressions of grief to the tried-and-true "5 Stages of Grief." I wonder who created these stages? Is this a Western idea that perhaps the narrator wouldn't understand, given her cultural upbringing? Or, are these stages based in psychology...perhaps there is something unhealthy about the narrator due to her "lack" of grief? I seem to have more questions than anything else I guess!
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