1、Marriage Life,In my kitchen or in hers, once a week or so, distracted by our children and sometimes reeling for lack of sleep, we stoked ourselves up on strong coffee and cigarettes and launched out on a rampage of talk about our marriages, our personal deficiencies, our interesting and discreditabl
2、e motives, and our forgone ambitionspara19,She abandoned her study and work and was in a state of confusion. She gave up her social life to prepare her children for what was going to come later in life.,She was betraying herself and giving up what she values most.But since she married her husband, s
3、he had to forget her hobby and became a good mother to her children.She was swapping that ambition for the chance to run her things.,And I had moved for the new fangled reason that was approved of only in the special circles-leaving husband and house and the things acquired during marriage (except,
4、of course, the children, who were to be parceled about, in the hope of making a life that could be lived without hypocrisy or deprivation or shame.para20,After marriage, she became subservient to the husband. In addition to doing the housework at home every day, sometimes, she accompanied her husban
5、d to go to dinner party. During the dinner party, they played an intimate couple in public . After the guests left, they became indifferent.,I was happy with all this-it made me feel as if I had made a true change, a long necessary voyage from house of marriage.para21,when her daughter ask her: “why
6、 cant you just live at home?“ the older sister tell her:“ because she hates Dad“, the narrator phoned her husband who asked nearly the same question and provided, on his own ,nearly the same answer.para23,I am learning to leave a man free and to be free myself. I am learning to take sex lightly, whi
7、ch is hard for me because thats no way I started out , Im not young, but I am learning.,She was a standard of wife and mother, although there was no love , passion, enthusiasm between husband and wife, she is still loyal to the family and her husband.,When her children left, I gather up all reminder
8、s of them and stuffed them into a garbage bag. And I did more or less the same thing every time thought of them : I snapped my mind shut. There were miseries I could bear-those connected with men. And other miseries-those connected with children-that I could not.para24,We can imagine that she took t
9、ime to get the kids dressed every day. And she dressed her children up for the festival.When her children were ill, she sent them to a hospital and sat up all night with sick children. At the weekend, She would take her children on an outing as well would take them to the zoo or to the park. Sometim
10、e, She spent several hours watching her children playing in the park.,During the dinner, she had to feed the young child and avoid caffeine, alcohol and food that her children were sensitive to. Meanwhile, she wanted to avoid her children to eat too much candy, pop. She needed to keep her children a balanced diet.,After supper, she cleaned the kitchen, ran the dishwasher, folded laundry, bathed the kids, and put them to bed . She often helped her children do homework Before she went to bed, she stopped in the girls room to kiss them and say goodnight. .,
