Indissoluble Matrimony (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Rebecca West
- First Published: 1914
- Type of Plot: Psychological
- Time of Work: The early twentieth century
- Setting: An industrial city and the surrounding moorlands in Great Britain
- Principal Characters: George Silverton, Evadne Silverton
- Genres: Psychological fiction, Short fiction
- Subjects: Politics, Sex or sexuality, Marriage, Emotions, Feminism, Women’s issues, Neuroses
- Locales: Great Britain
The Story
As the story opens, with George Silverton, a solicitor's clerk, entering his darkened house after a day's work, there is an immediate sense of unease. George is evidently a sour, dry, secretive man who resents everything about his wife Evadne—her exotic beauty, which can sometimes change to ugliness; her quick, emotional response to things that he regards as trivial; her small, sensual pleasures; and above all her apparent refusal to respond to or even, perhaps, notice his growing irritation.
All of this might seem to be typical of the situation between an...
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