The Tower

 Rating: 6.5/10

The Tower is written by Marghanita Laski, and it has themes of fear, freedom, independence, patriarchal society and etc. 

Narrator parallels and compares two marriages couple in the beginning of the story and shows the status of wife and husband. The main character is Caroline who has a husband named Neville, and she decided to go up to the tower. Her decision is not a simple plan, but it means she tries to overcome her fear and the barrier made by her status and patriarchal society. However, when she reaches the top on the four hundred and seventieth step, she is disappointed by nothing is there even more than a broken railing. So she tries to gather herself, and begins to climb down the steps. Ironically when she climbing up, her steps were four hundred and seventieth, but when she climbing down, it was five hundred and four.

After reading this story, I didn't know what is the meaning of the gap of steps in climbing up and down, and what is the author's message of this story. Because Caroline reached the top, but the thing that she gain from her achievement is nothing.  So I thought "Is author trying to show that it's all useless in wife's status"? The only thing I realized in this story was hopelessness.