The Painted Door - The Tragedy :: essays research papers

Ann and John, two characters from he short story "The Painted ingress", do not have a very healthy relationship. John is a simple farmer who thinks the only way he can interest his wife, Ann, is by working all day to earn money for her. How invariably Ann would prefer him to spend more time with her. Their relationship is stressed even unless when Ann is left at home alone with nothing to think almost but their relationship because John has to go to his fathers house. The terrible blizzard accentuates Anns feelings of loneliness and despair. John does not pay enough attention to Ann, and therefore creates a weak relationship.Ann is justified in her decision to "sleeps" with Steven, Johns friend. John has not been paying much attention to Ann and he leaves her alone in their house with Steven. Ann also has prior feelings for Steven from when they where in school together. Ann felt that she is unserviceable to John because he frequently leaves her alone she state s, "It isnt right to leave me here alone. Surely Im as important as your father." Ann just wants to feel loved by John but because he doesnt make her feel loved. She sees Steven as the only person who can give her the love and affection she needs.Johns decision to commit suicide was the right thing to do to make Ann happy. John thought that killing himself would make it easier for her to stay with Steven, who he thinks that she loves. John made a decision about his own life so he has the right to choose to kill himself. He also just wants Ann to be happy. He is "naively proud of Ann. He had bewildered by it once, her caring for a dull-witted fellow like him then assured al last of her affection he had relaxed against it gratefully, unsuspecting it might ever be less constant than his own." (Pg.49) In Johns mind he was making the right decision, so he was free to make it.Ann is the most to blame for her depression, her matter with Steven, and Johns suicide.