At the beginning of the story, Boyle showed us the life of Mrs. Ames as a subservient wife. Her life was a routine, “beat by beat” “without reflection”. It never changed. She was like a puppet, m

ore like a machine: “…left, left, left…right, right, right…. clean, busy, kind” (Boyle 58). Everyday Mrs. Ames completed her chores, cleaning up after her husband, while he “lingered in bed [or]… sat upon the roof…[or] wandered down the pathway…” (58, 60). He did not have high respect for her. “There’s a problem worthy of your mettle!” (59), he had said when she was showing the plumber the clogged drains. Yet Mrs. Ames quietly endured her husband’s attitude, and her own sufferings. She had not realized the values of herself. Thus, she went through life with a sadness that pervaded her entire being, “her eyes were gray, for the light had been extinguished from them. …. her yellow hair was still uncombed and sideways on her head” (58). With poetic prose, Boyle successfully portrayed Mrs. Ames’ life in the shadow of her husband, the astronomer. He was “the

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