Astronmers Wife

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In the Astronomer’s Wife by Kay Bole, Katherine has no hope because she feels that all men are like her husband. The story is about a house wife who has a very bad relationship with her husband and she seeks for someone to understand and respect her. Mrs. Ames has forgotten any strength and beauty that she has because of the way her husband treats her with such emotional neglect. But then she regains her confidence when she realizes that not all men are dreamers.
The story opens with “There is an evil moment on awaking when all things seem to pause. But for women, they only falter and may be set in action by a single move: a lifted hand and the pendulum will swing, or the voice raised and through every room the pulse takes up its beating”. The author describes the time of awaking as the most evil because you just don’t think about what you have to do. But for women it is different. The astronomer’s wife is a woman of action. She thinks about all the things she needs to get done around the house. For her time is too valuable she cannot waste it. She has to fill time “to the brim.” Katherine, the astronomer’s wife is much like the pendulum; she is reliable, consistent just following the same path.
On the top of page 58 the word hail seems to stand out. “Katherine hailed the morning with her bare arms’ quivering flesh drawn taut in rhythmic exercise”. She seems very happy maybe because she will occupy her time up and not have to be with her husband. She also does some sort of exercise this possibly refers to how she likes to go fast paced and get things done in her days.
The story simply started out by saying how each day is the same as all the others. Katherine sees to all matters of running a successful household. That is why the astronomer believes that Katherine is capable to some degree because he leaves her to be liable to everything. The astronomer seems too occupied with his work to bother his wife, or m...