After reading this short story, I was filled with a sense of confusion and disappointment. Perhaps I am missing some essential underlying themes, but this story seemed completely empty and pointless to me. Just a boring story filled with shallow, stereotypical characters. The hard-working, personality-lacking, single female lawyer; the pissed-off, moderately-abusive/moderately-respectful-based-on-his-mood, swears-he's-gonna-be-a-better-man-tomorrow husband; the pitiful, young, somewhat-helpless, trying-to-improve-her-life, unhappy girl.... Girl's stuck in a necessary, though, for the most part, unhappy marriage. Husband isn't very nice to her. They separate. They briefly un-separate. They separate permanently. Girl sort of misses him, but has a better life now. The end. I can only assume from the fact that it was assigned in my college level literature class that this story receives at least some level of recognition and critical praise. This is baffling, though not surprising; I have seen this before many times over my career as a student of language arts. I wish I had my 45 minutes back.
Such are my opinions on this work.
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