When We Think About Marriage, We Think It Is Filled With

When we think about marriage, we think it is filled with happy moments with loved ones. It is knowing that someone has your back. Also, it is wishing you were the one having the operation or the illness. Not him. It is full of hard work that not all people can handle. Marriage is hard work that needs to be created from love. The wife needs to be the person who keeps the house comfortable and supports her husband. As for the husband, he needs to be the head of the family and who keeps the marriage alive. Marriage is built on love, understanding, and support of one another. In marriage, it is important to keep each other happy. When love and happiness disappear from marriage, it is hard to keep the family together. In those two short stories†¦show more content†¦Louise repeatedly told herself that now she was finally free. As for Mary she could not repeat the word free, but she knew that now she too was free from her husband. Equally, both Louise and Mary they felt their marr iages were the worst thing for them. Those two women had in common a secret that they were unhappy and maybe beaten by their husbands or maybe they were forced to get married to them. William was strict with everything that Mary was doing. Besides, â€Å"he had also disapproval of children, and as a result they had never had any of them either.†(Dahl 190). It is interesting that for thirty years they lived together, they never had children. Maybe if they had a child, William wound have changed from a cold husband to a warm father. Similarly Louise with her husband also did not have children during the time they were together. In the story â€Å"William and Mary†, Mary was an unhappy wife that wanted to live more of a free life that she did not have with William. She wanted to smoke cigarettes and spend money. She sounded like an otherwise healthy person. Also, it looked like she did not have friends. 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