"Burge McCall hated his wife": You don't have to be (a) genius to understand that the relationship was not a good one. Burge McCall was a bad looking man. He was stingy, disgusting and a bad husband, he always teased his wife and he certainly did not respect her. Mrs. McCall wasn't a very companionable woman for she didn't speak much. She was mysterious and cunning. none of the townspeople has(gr.) ever understood why they(מיותר) two got married. Some said Mrs. McCall only wanted to get away from her noisy hometown.
"Burge McCall could never understand his wife": He didn't really know her. The two never expressed sympathy to each other. Mr. McCall was always looking for fights and arguments with Mrs. McCall. But she never answered back, and that made him even angrier. Every time he called her names, she only looked at him with her strange, scary look, unlike his previous wives.
"Burge McCall, you are a big rat!": This is what his wife told him after he had slapped her one day. She promised him that he would regret this. When he went to the drug store, the druggist, Sled Sather, told him that his wife had visited him that morning and bought one pound of rat poison. Burge began thinking that maybe he was the one she wanted to poison since he knew for sure that they had no rats in their house and remembered that his wife called him "a big rat".
Since then, Burge neither ate nor drank at home. He was constantly sober with absolute control of himself. This relieved Mrs. McCall from working too hard. But most importantly ,Burge was no longer mean to his wife and he stopped teasing her. He was suddenly kind and loving; he took her out to the movies and picnics. He became the perfect husband for her only out of fear. And Mrs. McCall got what she wanted, thanks to her smart steps.
"Burge McCall" is a funny and light story. The man thinks that his wife is his little entertainment doll, and she revenges(ww.) him for that. But in real life this story can happen, and it may not end only at the step of(phr.) buying the poison, but using it as well. I think this is a very smart story that shows us that sometimes we are blind when we most need to see. We should think twice before we say or do something to someone, especially to our beloved ones, because it's out of our ability to predict what might be the influent(sp.) of such behavior.
It's very well written, but you should have consentrated more on your opinion than on telling the whole story.
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Daphna.
