The Good Husband | Themes
The Good Husband's themes connect directly to its primary concerns, yet they are difficult to pin down. Insofar as the novel is an examination of how-to-die or what-death-is, its theme is extremely opaque. Death itself is opaque, true, to all of us who have not passed this "final examination." But most novels about death present a theory or statement about it, which can range from saccharine reassurance to bitter nihilism. Godwin does not seem to have any such statement.
It may be that Magda's "ordering of her loves" is another way of saying, "At the end, all we have is...
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