• The presence of the children in Mamzelle Aurélie house gives an effect to her. Odile’s children awaken her maternal instinct. Mamzelle Aurélie is an independence and unmarried woman. When she get responsibility from Odile, it like that the fate want to show to her that she does a wrong decision when declined the proposal and how loneliness of her life. She very happy with the presence of the child but when her mother come back to take the children, she realized her mistake and regret about her past life.
• For the conclusion, the short story “Regret” by Kate Chopin was very interesting story. There are a lot of lesson that we can get by reading this story. Futhermore, when we read this story, we can get the main idea that the author wants to show us in “regret”.

    From the story, there are many style of the language that author used to create an effect in this story. At the beginning, the author chooses phrases and words to describe the Mamzelle Aurelie in masculine appearences. She has “a good strong figure, ruddy cheeks” and “a determind eye” . She wears “a man’s hat, “a blue army overcoat” and even sometimes “top-boots”. Other than that to describe Mamzelle Aurelie is at least middle-aged because she has “hair that was changing from brown to gray” .The author also used a simile to give an appreciation for beautiful or effective of language. This can be proof in text “When she ordered them one and all to bed as she would have shooed the chickens into the hen-house” . At this time she doesn’t know how to treat the children. The others are simile of one the children’s “warm breath beating against her cheek like the fanning of a bird’s wing” . This has the effect feeling the old woman emotions.Futhermore, the metaphor are used in these story to compared the children with animals”. When mamzelle Aurelie thought that her responsibility was just o feed the children, she found out that “little children are not little pigs” )and needed attention from her unlike pig do. In the final paragraph, “evening shadows were creeping and deeping around her solitary figure”, signifying that she was nearing the late part of her life and she was all alone.

   In this story we can see that Mamzelle Aurélie life was quite alone in the world without her family. At the beginning, she never regret with her choice of not marrying. She was happy with her life that she had. But her feeling was changes when one day her neighbor given her children to Mamzelle Aurélie for her care. From there, Mamzelle Aurélie began to truly life. When with the children, she can feel all the joy of life. But after two weeks, the children had left with her mother. Mamzelle Aurélie was cried like a man. It show that her feeling of regret because she only can know about love and joy instinct a motherhood when she at fifty years old.

What about setting. The main heroine lives quite alone in her house.  She has a farm with few cattle and a dog, which tries to make the life of her owner happier.