Simon's Wife Dialectical Journal

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1. What did you learn from the short story?

At the beginning of the story, is a relationship of friendship between Simon and George. They both have known each other for so long. The both of them were considered as siblings and their families. Then what I learned from the short story is a family relationship that was built by the family of Simon and visits are also reviewed by the George. Simon decided to get married and build a family of his own, he studied to become a husband and father also useful to children and his wife also, he wanted to learn how to carry out the responsibilities of the head of the family.

In addition, at the same time they take care of an elderly family called Madame Radevin who have paralysis. George see how the
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Simon accepted her because there are like each other.
Then he married. He married, quite suddenly, a little girl from the provinces, who had come to Paris in search of a husband. How in the world could that little thin, insipidly fair girl, with her weak hands, her light, vacant eyes, and her clear, silly voice, who was exactly like a hundred thousand marriageable dolls, have picked up that intelligent, clever young fellow? Can anyone understand these things? No doubt he had hoped for happiness, simple, quiet and long-enduring happiness, in the arms of a good, tender and faithful woman; he had seen all that in the transparent looks of that schoolgirl with light hair.
Why I chose it because every person there is a desire to settle down and have families of their own. One’s feelings can’t be expressed and can’t prevent a person to love another person is different. How to have your own family if we do not find the couple themselves. Lastly, if the feeling of love is blooming in every couple, family relationships and the pair will be happier and

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