The author shows Della as a sad woman who tries to smile, but it's not real, at this point you can see that Della is not who she really is. Women wear makeup to hide something or to appear different from what they really are. Della who cries all the time wants to hide it from the world, so after she finishes crying she "takes care of her cheeks with the powder rag" (O.Henry 19). If Della was truly a caring woman she wouldn't have to hide anything, but she tries to hide her crying face by covering it, which in turn shows that Della is not who she might think. In “The Soldier's Home,” Hemingway shows the manipulation of the Mother through emotion when she begins to cry towards Krebs. If a woman in 1900 had to keep her family happy, why would anyone cry in front of her children? The mother looked at her son with teary eyes and began to cry