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  • Essay / “The astronomer's wife”: the absence of conformism

    “The astronomer's wife” has a strong influence of context. In this story, the struggle is evident. The wife's conformity with her husband, the problems in their marriage and the plumber's influence in opening her view of the world are shown through the setting. The story is explained through the places they roam and the things found there. Morning room placement was a daily routine, just like their wedding. It wasn't bright or happy. While most people enjoy the feeling of waking up to a new day, she simply saw it as routine. “She retrieved her sweet voice and sent it cautiously up the stairs for coffee, swung her feet across the oval carpet and greeted the morning with the quivering flesh of her bare arms squeezed in a rhythmic exercise: left, left, left, my wife and fourteen children, just, just, right in the middle of the dusty road. The still pool of water was symbolic of the overflowing problems that were their marriage, it was stagnant; just like their marriage. "Then she carefully circled the still expanse of water that I...