A Dead Women's Secret

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The short story talk about a woman lying dead without any pain in her bed. Beside the dead lady was her parent and her son and her daughter crying. They never knew their father only knowing he had made their mother unhappy. They went through her letters many from their father. Then they found something shocking that their mother had done. She was going out with some guy named Henry. At the end no one could look at the mother in the same way again.

The plot is not predictable because the speak highly of her. The dead women wrote letters to someone not their father. The climax is when her son and daughter found the letter that wasn't addressed to their father, but another man, finding out that their mother had a relationship with the priest.

The Them of A Dead Women's Secret are darkness and light and don't snooping you might not like what you found when his mother dead her son found her a letter sent to someone not their father and he know his mother have an adulterer and Facing reality when the woman dead her parent and her son and daughter kneeling beside the bed loss member in family.

The story have many people of character. The mother she is the main character. she had, from childhood, armed the with a strict moral code, teaching them religion, without weakness, and duty, without compromise. Sister Eulalie is a flat character
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But the story is ok a little bit confusing to wards the end, but it is great. Yes, I feel like something was missing they never really explain who the men was. I do not think it needs to be changed way any since it makes you think. I believe the writer wrote this story to tell not everyone is who they seem to be. The author never really explained who Henry was or if that guy who reacted when was Henry. The main issue in the story is now everyone thinks the dead woman was a liar the whole

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