“The Madwoman” describe personal tragedies that can result from war and military occupation. This is one of the scary or supernatural and psychological story section of Maupassant collection.
This particular story is evocative of those men and women who are victimized by the arbitrary abuse of power during war. In this particular case, the Prussian occupation of France. It is a story within a story. The narrator is an unnamed man from Normandy. He tells his friend d’Endolin, of a tale long ago where a woman was affected by hearing woodcocks used to go into a strange stressful stage. What was the relation of the woodcocks to the woman?
It was the time during the Prussian occupation of Normandy. The narrator speaks of a woman who suffered a great grief after her father, husband, and baby had all died one after the other. Unable to sleep because of her trauma, she descended gradually into madness.
“The Madwoman” is a portrayal of the grim reality left behind after war.
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