How I Met My Husband Analysis

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The Women in “How I Met My Husband”
The story “How I met my Husband” was a story about a girl named Edie, who was staying with the Peebles family to help around the house and with the children. In the time that Edie stayed with this family she encountered three different women each with vastly different personalities. Mrs. Peebles, Alice, and Loretta are the women who are main characters in this story. Each woman had very distinct personalities, each with different wants driving their actions. Their differences in character seemed to become evident when they all conversed with each other. However all three women had on thing in common, they all wanted what they could not have. The first women we are introduced to is Mrs. Peebles, the lady

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