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Empathy For A Wife Analysis

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You'd think something happy as getting a birthday cake and having someone sing happy birthday was so exciting at first than it turned bad because the husband is a rude person who doesn't seem to appreciate his ”fadingly pretty" wife. The wife started to cry because she got her hopes up for something that seemed so nice and meaningful but it turned out to be bad as her husband saying something under his breath and him feeling embarrassed at the fact that the wife surprised him for his birthday in public. I'm sure that the couple didn't have the best relationship, I believe the man is abusing her, not physically but mentally.
I believe the author’s purpose of writing this short story was to make the reader have empathy for the wife or basically

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