... he looks into the face of his wife, whom symbolically, by the pact of marriage, is a mirror for himself. Her cold passionless eyes are a reflection of what it is she is gazing upon, and at the moment of the story, it is Chandler. Ironic that chandler perceives more from his wife through the distance of a photograph, ... being the epitome of the Celtic poetic culture, says something about Chandler being an Irish man, and what that means in the context of his passionless existence. The stigma of the Irish is that they are helpless to their problems, and unwilling to pull themselves from the...

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