Astronmers Wife

The story opens with “There is an evil moment on awaking when all things seem to pause. But for women, they only falter and may be set in action by a single move: a lifted hand and the pendulum will swing, or the voice raised and through every room the pulse takes up its beating”. The author describes the time of awaking as the most evil because you just don’t think about what you have to do. But for women it is different. The astronomer’s wife is a woman of action. She thinks about all the things she needs to get done around the house. For her time is too valuable she cannot waste it. She has to fill time “to the brim.” Katherine, the astronomer’s wife is much like the pendulum; she is reliable, consistent just following the same path.

The story simply started out by saying how each day is the same as all the others. Katherine sees to all matters of running a successful household. That is why the astronomer believes that Katherine is capable to some degree because he leaves her to be liable to everything. The astronomer seems too occupied with his work to bother his wife, or maybe he just wants to have her around so he won’t be alone. But he is always alone with his work they really don’t spend any time together. He seems almost obsessed with his work and leaves no time to act as a husband. Katherine does not understand her husband and he talks to her in a dialect that she does not understand. It is obvious that he does this to make her feel like a lower person than he is.

The plumber suggests that her husband come down and have a look at the drains with him. He felt kind of disgusted with a man that just sleeps in bed all day and lets his wife do all the work. When he says “study for a man who likes to know what’s what” he is kind of making fun of her husband.

Katherine is taken with the plumber because “here was man who spoke of action and objects as simply as women did”. She seems to have looked up to all men, thinking they are smarter because of how she strove to understand her husband. Previous to this discovery Katherine did not know that she and her husband were mismatched, the complete opposites. She feels a connection to the plumber because while she talking she thinks her own way and. The astronomer treats her as not important. Katherine is always struggling with his silence. The plumber is some sort of symbol as connection to earth while the astronomer is to the sky. The plumber is more practical and works with his hands. The astronomer is a dreamer and has n

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