My sympathies do travel to Mrs. Elisa Allen. Humble gardener, married to romantically impotent farmer Henry Allen. On a particular winter afternoon Mrs. Allen is tempted by a another man. Not such that any true indiscretion is made by our gentleman, but nonetheless an encounter that strikes deeply with Elisa.
We see this a lot, a woman, who hasn't much wrong with her, feels impulsive whenever a man (no matter how grotesquely deformed) pays her a compliment simply because her husband does not possess the means to correctly satisfy her any longer. I feel sorry for men, and women like Elisa because boredom seems a worse torture than abuse. For example, in a boring relationship you can't tell if they love you or not, but in an abusive one you know they love you because they hit you, or so I hear.
Those types of flings, such as the one Mrs. Allen encountered, do not usually end well. Or end at all. For no relationship can be manifested out of nothing more than a slight compliment, with the complimenting party meaning nothing more than that compliment. So perhaps it seemed fitting that the gentlemen abandoned Elisa's flowers on the side of the road, while she and Mr. Allen embarked on a dinner date, with the bulk of the conversation most likely containing phrases like "Oh, yes the weather is fine today."
You have a good point at the end- how you said it is probablly a good thing that the man abandoned Elisa's flowers on the side of the road, because there's no telling what she would have done later on, if she thought he kept them and cared for them. No doubt her mind would wander back to the "grotesquely deformed" man trying to fix her pots, and wanting nothing more.
ReplyDeleteI agree that boredom would have to be a awful feeling to have. I don't believe in falling out of love. You loved the person you married or you wouldn't have married them. I think that people get so caught up in their daily lives that they forget about the person they are coming home to. Marriage is work it's not like a flower bulb that you plan in the ground and it grows back every year with out any work or attention. Marriage takes time and effort but I can tell that it's worth it all in the end.
ReplyDeleteMsrrige can become a bore, if the parners dont make the effort to make it exciting. In this case, the husband has a schedule, and never can manage to squeeze in some quality time with his wife. This is the reason she is real flirty with the salesman; she wants the kind of lifestyle that the salesman has. If the effort to make things exciting in a marrige are not made, marrige becomes a schedule, nothing more.
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