Post by angelina kurganska on Dec 10, 2015 4:15:50 GMT
I think that their relationship is very complicated. Which is understandable, considering the circumstances they are both in. Although the husband is very realistic in the words he speaks to his wife; and although the wife often speaks negatively of her husband, I can still think that they actually love each other a lot deep inside. Considering that the narrator described that their families used to battle with each other for 5 years or so before they got married, I can assume that the couple married out of love and not anything else. After that came the battle of his wife with her mother, and straight after came his wife's illness. I think despite their love for each other, in these circumstances they never had a moment of peace. In the end of it all they are about to be separated in such a sad way. Considering all this, the wife's disease, and the husband's pain and responsibilities somehow they cannot help but argue with each other and wish of better future.
This story also reminded me of Hayao Miyazaki's film The Wind Rises. I think at the end the girl was also suffering from tuberculosis, however instead of "bothering" her husband she wanted to bring him as little pain as possible and decided to quietly leave the house while he was gone for him to never find her again, so he could have memories of her "healthy state". The difference of these two stories is that the wife wasn't so dependent on the constant care of her husband in the Wind Rises, even if it meant that she has to be alone. However when I think about the two scenarios it is hard for me to tell which one is more realistic.
Question:
"Yet even this extremity of suffering he found in fact several degrees less than what he had gone through when she was well and caused him to feel such jealousy. He became aware that her sick body with its corrupted lungs bestowed more happiness on him than her healthy one had." (p.118)
I thought this was a pretty controversial passage. What do you think the narrator means by it?
This story also reminded me of Hayao Miyazaki's film The Wind Rises. I think at the end the girl was also suffering from tuberculosis, however instead of "bothering" her husband she wanted to bring him as little pain as possible and decided to quietly leave the house while he was gone for him to never find her again, so he could have memories of her "healthy state". The difference of these two stories is that the wife wasn't so dependent on the constant care of her husband in the Wind Rises, even if it meant that she has to be alone. However when I think about the two scenarios it is hard for me to tell which one is more realistic.
Question:
"Yet even this extremity of suffering he found in fact several degrees less than what he had gone through when she was well and caused him to feel such jealousy. He became aware that her sick body with its corrupted lungs bestowed more happiness on him than her healthy one had." (p.118)
I thought this was a pretty controversial passage. What do you think the narrator means by it?
