According to Jean Galica, Licensed marriage and family therapist, “Marriages that have sustained the loss of a child through death experience the same valleys and peaks as any other marriage, just in a more exaggerated form.” This notion of married couples facing extreme hardship after the loss of a child hold especially true for the couple on Home Burial, as the wife turns her husband digging the grave of their dead baby into him not caring about what has happened. In Robert Frost’s Home Burial …show more content…
Home Burial was Frost’s way of showing how such a tragic loss can take something so pure as love in a marriage and turn it into a living nightmare that both parties do not know how to escape. This couple could not face each other and say what needed to be said in order to try and save their marriage. Instead Amy turned her grief into resentment and hatred against her husband and her husband turned his frustration into pushing his wife away by not listening to her or how she feels. Leaving both of them to feel empty and alone to grieve their little baby