Tuesday, April 27, 2010

"Shiloh" by Bobbie Ann Mason

“Shiloh” is a story based on a marriage which is falling apart. We have a man who was a very hard working man until her got in a truck accident. When he got in a truck accident about four months ago he ended up injuring his leg. He has steel pins in his hips and will probably not be able to drive truck again. He is now secluded to the house and this is when the problems begin.
His wife is use to him being gone most of the time and while he is gone she is use to running the home the way she sees fit. With him being home all the time she feels like she is living on pins and needles. She feels as if her husband is there to annoy her. He expects her to fix good home cook meals everyday of the week. His wife is use to only having to fix special on special occasion when he is coming home. She works as well as taking care of the house. Her husband lying around all the time causes her to get angry with him. Leroy decides he is going to build her a nice log home. She tells him if we don’t have the money for a new home and that he needs to get a new job. Finally her mom talks her into going on a trip with her husband. On the trip she tells her husband that she wants a divorce. He is trying to reason with her and she just walks away.
What drives her to tell her husband that she wants a divorce was her worst secret was revealed. Her mom caught her smoking at that point I feel she decided that she was tired of living a lie. She decides to come clean with everything and tells her husband she want a divorce. Her husband also has some secrets of his own. He is a pot head and his mother in law doesn’t know it.

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