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The Pilot's Wife Betrayal Quotes

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The novel The Pilot’s Wife represents a well-explained example of betrayal. Betrayal is a high intensified subject in this novel because Kathryn, Jack’s wife, finds out that Jack had been cheating on her with another woman and had a family with her. Not only was Jack cheating, he was lying and using his daughter for illegal smuggling purposes. Kathryn first suspected betrayal when she finds a cryptic note while going through a pair of Jack’s jeans. The note had a phone number and a poem that was about “the pitiless north” and its “relentless, resultless fighting,” that was scribbled in Jack’s handwriting. Since Jack is dead due to a plane crash somewhere off the Irish coast, Kathryn cannot ask him any questions. Kathryn does recall that pilots

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