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    “Beloved husband of…”. I think that is phrase goes back to the idea of traditional marriage and the roles females took in the relationship. For a very long time, females were described as in being in the shadows of the husband or being dependent on them. I think that “Beloved wife of…”demonstrates that that person did have a husband, and someone to care for. Even after death, it demonstrates her loyalty to her partner. For males, I actually noticed that some commonly said, “Beloved husband, and father”

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    Odysseus: A Good Husband

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    your spouse to have a successful marriage. The are many qualities that make a husband admirable. To be trustworthy, to be present in the relationship and loving are excellent examples of a successful husband. Therefore, I believe that Odysseus is not a good partner to Penelope because he is not trustworthy as a husband, he is not present in the relationship, nor is a loving husband. Initially, I think that a good husband should be trustworthy, because in a relationship both partner need to be honest

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    narrator and the husband relationship throughout the story kind of drifted apart. The wife pretends to be happy around him but in reality she’s much unfulfilled. John the husband who is a physician think he knows what’s best for his wife, he makes every decision regarding her life right down to who she should associate herself with to where she gets to sleep and so on. He always disregard her opinions on things, he thinks only his opinion matters just because he’s a doctor. The husband can be seen as

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    If Cathedral were to have been told by the wife in the story instead of the husband, I would expect the story to be less skeptical of Robert but not have a point made at the end. The wife has known Roger much longer than her husband. She is also very close with him. The husband seems nervous to have a blind man in his home. He seems skeptical to open his home to the man probably because he does not know what to expect seeing as he has never met a blind person before. The wife would not be nervous

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    “They’re Not Your Husband” is a short story written by Raymond Carver and published in 1973. Raymond Carver is a minimalist writer, which provides his short stories with an economy with words, adverbs and a focus on surface description. This allows the context to dictate meaning. Therefore, the reader has an active role in the creation of the short story; to choose side based on inclined innuendo and hints. The story reveals an unemployed salesman, Earl Ober, who feels obligated to get his wife

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    story, "Jealous Husband Returns in Form of Parrot" by Robert Olen Butler, a jealous husband who lacks communication skills with his wife take his to drastic measures to prove his wife's infidelity, which leads him to his very death. The husband then goes through reincarnation and returns as a "yellow-name Amazon" parrot to be then brought back home to his now widow wife, now seeing how disloyal she truly is. (3) Narratio: The very woman who once was his wife adopts the jealous husband, now parrot,

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    Louise Mourn Her Husband

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    Louise Mallard, whose husband has died is thought to be shocked but her reaction is completely the opposite. Although her husband did die, she comes to a revelation that she is now free of him. When you read this story, it really makes you wonder about what she went through while her husband was still alive. Did she go through emotional, mental, or physical abuse? She had been waiting to be free for quite awhile now, and now she has the freedom that she has always wanted. In addition, Louise will

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    whereabouts. It is therefore the subsequent marriage of the abandoned spouse that falls under the class of voidable marriages, and not the re-marriage of the deserting spouse, after the period of seven years has lapsed. A wife who was residing with her husband in a foreign country and there deserted him and went to live with her

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    To My Dear, and Loving Husband Love “two were one”, love “live ever” Bradstreet states her countless love for her husband in her poem, “to my dear and loving Husband”. She shows the binding force that can adhesion two people into one. Her poem conveys crucial massage to her husband especially and to all her audiences about the significance of love in the sacred family. She prices this love more than any valuable things in this word. Her philosophy about the love is connect between the heaven and

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    Janie And Her Husbands From the beginning of the novel it is modern time where Janie is at, then she flashes back to her old life with Nanny. Nanny helped Janie get her first husband, Logan. She has two more husbands after him. Janie never knew what love was, she experienced abusive love, love she thought was true love, and actual true love. So why not compare her husbands and see which husbands she experienced abusive and real love with. Let’s start off with Logan, his full name is Logan Killicks

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