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In the short story "" by Tobias Wolff, the couple is able to keep romance in their marriage as shown through their routine arguments, the symbols in the story, and the end result of making up.
They spice up their marriage through routine arguments, with the expectation of romance later on. When they first start the night's arguments, the husband notices a "look" in his wife's eyes that tells him, through experience, "he should keep his mouth shut"(444). The husband never does though. "Actually it made him talk more"(444). This is not the first time there has been a battle of words between them as shown when after a particularly touching debate, the wife goes into the living room and ...

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it's there"(445). He implies that the argument isn't that important, and she would forget about the whole thing soon enough. For the night, however, things have been made somewhat more exciting than before.
Several symbols convey the couple's feelings, and what the ultimate result of their arguing will be like. The wife seems to mold their conversation in the direction she wants to make it go when she "began washing the bowl again, turning it…as though she were shaping it"(444). The husband's resentfulness at many of her words and the turn in the conversation have made the mood dull just as "the water had gone flat and grey"(445) in the sink. Inevitably the heat of the dispute was at hand but would cool in turn like the metal of the silverware they were washing. As the heat of the water hit it, it was "darkened to pale blue, then turned silver again"(445). While the cut had been painful at the moment, it hadn't been deep and would not be noticed in time. The dogs in ...

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Added: 3/14/2008 02:38:31 AM
Category: English
Type: Premium Paper
Words: 697
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