This short story is written by Catherine Mason and focuses heavily on interracial marriages and domestic power control. She uses a theoretical debate between a couple to show that such conflicts can push couples apart. The husband believes that neither marriage nor love could ever happen or lead to happiness between interracial couples. the wife, Ann, believes differently and thinks that true love can make it work. This starts a conflict between the two, which makes them verbally fight to impose their opinion to each other. The domestic power conflict between Ann and her husband is not obvious at first, because we focus deeply on the racist part of the text, during the first part of the story.
The story is set and written in 1985 and is located in the state of California, this is shown in the reference to ‘El Camino’ which is a historical highway that connects several places in California.
‘“Ann, don’t move” he said. “Stay right there.” He ran upstairs to the bathroom and rummaged in the medicine chest for alcohol, cotton, and a Band-Aid’ (P. 3, L. 8-10.) In this quote we get the impression that the husband might be considerate after all, he shows concern when Ann slightly injures herself in the sink. Whatever hope we had for the sincerity of his actions does however fade away rather quickly after first appearing. This becomes clear when the story almost immediately after quotes ‘He hoped that she appreciated how quickly he had come to her aid. He’d acted out of concern for her, with no thought of getting anything in return, but now the thought occurred to him that it would be a nice gesture on her part not to start up that conversation again, as he was tired of it’ (P.3, L. 19-24.)
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