The text under consideration is called "Astronomer's Wife" written by Kay Boyle. Three characters are involved in the story: the astronomer, his wife, and the plumber.
At the very beginning of the story we got acquainted with the married couple, the astronomer and his wife. The whole story is connected with the overflow that happened in their house. And we should note the overflow is symbolic here - how on we'll prove this idea. So the author in his work penetrates deeply into the psychology of his heroes and gives us their accurate characterization.
We come to conclusion that the astronomer was a person of a romantic mind and belonged to the heavens. As the author writes: "he was a man of other things, a dreamer. At time he lay still for hours upon roof behind the telescope". We feel that the atmosphere between the husband and the wife isn't warm, there's no mutual understanding between them.
To emphasize this idea the author uses the epithet that describes exact relations between them: the impenetrable silence of his brow. In fact, his wife was unable to understand him, and perhaps she had no desire to penetrate into his thoughts. Here we should give an example of another epithet that arrests the reader's attention: the mystery and silence of her husband's mind lay like a chiding finger on her lips. The sentence proves the astronomer's dominance. Mrs. Ames was in awe of her husband, and that's why she was so passive. As for astronomer, he didn't treat her on equal terms "that man might be each time the new arching wave, and woman the undertow that sucked him back, were things she had been told by his silence were so".
This metaphor shows that Mr. Ames considered his wife inferior, but at the same time he needed her as a servant and she would be absent from him all the day in being clean, busy, kind. Mrs. Ames in comparison with her husband was a person of practical mind. She was in charge of household chores.
Moreover, she did the things the man is usually in charge of and it was she who received the plumber. And Mrs. Ames was rather weak, oppressed, sick and tired. "Her eyes were gray, for the light had been extinguished in them". Speaking about her, the author emphasizes such characteristic feature of hers as softness. For example, the author resorts to repetition (anadiplosis). "She said softly, softly down the flight of stairs" similar and alliteration "speaking soft as a willow weeping".
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At the very beginning of the story we got acquainted with the married couple, the astronomer and his wife. The whole story is connected with the overflow that happened in their house. And we should note the overflow is symbolic here - how on we'll prove this idea. So the author in his work penetrates deeply into the psychology of his heroes and gives us their accurate characterization.
We come to conclusion that the astronomer was a person of a romantic mind and belonged to the heavens. As the author writes: "he was a man of other things, a dreamer. At time he lay still for hours upon roof behind the telescope". We feel that the atmosphere between the husband and the wife isn't warm, there's no mutual understanding between them.
To emphasize this idea the author uses the epithet that describes exact relations between them: the impenetrable silence of his brow. In fact, his wife was unable to understand him, and perhaps she had no desire to penetrate into his thoughts. Here we should give an example of another epithet that arrests the reader's attention: the mystery and silence of her husband's mind lay like a chiding finger on her lips. The sentence proves the astronomer's dominance. Mrs. Ames was in awe of her husband, and that's why she was so passive. As for astronomer, he didn't treat her on equal terms "that man might be each time the new arching wave, and woman the undertow that sucked him back, were things she had been told by his silence were so".
This metaphor shows that Mr. Ames considered his wife inferior, but at the same time he needed her as a servant and she would be absent from him all the day in being clean, busy, kind. Mrs. Ames in comparison with her husband was a person of practical mind. She was in charge of household chores.
Moreover, she did the things the man is usually in charge of and it was she who received the plumber. And Mrs. Ames was rather weak, oppressed, sick and tired. "Her eyes were gray, for the light had been extinguished in them". Speaking about her, the author emphasizes such characteristic feature of hers as softness. For example, the author resorts to repetition (anadiplosis). "She said softly, softly down the flight of stairs" similar and alliteration "speaking soft as a willow weeping".
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