Spouse

Each year, a pilgrimage to the Florida or Alabama gulf coast is a highly anticipated and enjoyed event for my family. In the beginning, it was just my wife and I. Man oh man, these trips were some of the most relaxing times that I can remember. Now, our yearly “beach fest” includes our two children, Kaylee and Garrett. While this is still a wonderful family event, I no longer use the phrase “relaxing”. Elbert Hubbard once said, “No man needs a vacation so much as the man who just had one”.…

An Application for Slavery In Sylvia Plath's poem "The Applicant", a male marriage applicant is being interviewed for his quality as a suitor and his willingness to accept the girl being offered for marriage by the narrator. While the young man is being grilled by the narrator, he does not near experience the harsh narrative treatment that the prospective bride receives, being purposefully deprived of both gendered pronouns and choice of action as part of the arrangement. Plath uses metaphor…

The Professor thought that “people who are intensely in love when they marry, and who go on being in love, always meet with something which suddenly or gradually makes a difference,” and that, for him and his wife, “it had been…his pupil, Tom Outland” (Cather 38). By placing this thought directly following an argument between the Professor and his wife, Cather causes the reader to question whether the change the Professor ponders is causing conflict between him and his wife. She guides the…

Everybody in life has something that they so desire to have in life. Events and happenings in life may inspire the desire in every person at one point in life. These desires may sometimes be shamed or ridiculed in the societal context but that does not deter the fact that it is what someone wants to have or act upon. This paper is going to focus on characters from two stories that have strong desires but their efforts are frustrated by their historical, societal and cultural environments with a…

has existed. Women have especially found themselves bonded together in the struggles they face in marriage. For centuries now, women have been told to be seen but not heard, to quit their jobs and raise the children, and to be subservient to their spouses. The different struggles that a woman faces in a marriage can be depicted through the three short stories: “Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin, “Astronomer’s Wife” by Kay Boyle, and “Shiloh” by Bobbie Anne Mason, which individually exemplify the…

In the early twentieth century, marriage was a sacred and sanctified hold between a man and a woman with strict social mores and guidelines any married couple was expected to abide by. For example, one main expectation of a man and wife is that the husband is the one to go out and gather the necessities needed for a proper home and family such as food, income, and security. Another example would be that all wives were expected to cater to their husbands’ each and every request, all while…

If you had just murdered your spouse, would your first concern be of your canned cherries? A comparison of the short story “ A Jury of Her Peers” and the dramatic adaptation of Trifles can start with the many similarities. The setting is well defined in both, as the story takes place in Dickson County, Nebraska. This is in the farm belt of the United States, with all of the characters lives revolving around the rural atmosphere in the early part of the 1900’s. The season is cold and wintry,…

an adequate social life with their peers, takes them to the park, the zoo, etc.” (3) This is untrue and many people, both husbands and wives, willingly put their careers on hold in order to be able to be with their children and help support their spouse. Stephanie Bagnell, the program coordinator for the Center for Women and Gender at Utah State University, said, “I love motherhood. My kids are my world and I love watching them discover and grow. It is rewarding to see them playing and joking…

husband can manage a home, a good husband with a bad wife will ruin a home, a bad wife with a bad husband is death, but a good wife with a good husband is life entirely (choose wisely).” Any relationship either between family, friends, or particularly spouses can be negative or positive regardless of whether there are social, political, or environmental factors, and personal or financial situations. Writers like Theodore Roethke, Katie Chopin, and Charlotte Perkins Stetson importantly depict the…

involves an irreconcilable conflict between one’s ethical commitments and the action required for congruence between or among them” (p. 1). It appeared, at first, that the husband of the patient understood and supported the DNR status of his spouse. It was only after Dr. Will came in insisting on going against the patient’s wishes and resuscitating his wife that the husband…