Alice's Other Husbands In The Glass Menagers, By Edith Wharton

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The story was good I enjoyed it for the most part. The three men were confusing to keep apart at first because she jumped between their different story lines so often. Mr. Haskett her first husband got parcel custody of their daughter, and he transferred jobs to move to New York to be near her, this was really sweet. I don’t know why she married Varick he never did sound all that great. Mr. Wharton was really nice to take care of Lily even thought she wasn’t his. Letting Alice’s other husbands be such a big part of their lives must have been really hard for him, he took it better than most people do when they marry someone who has been married and had a child with the other person. He also sees that they helped make her into the wife she is

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