“The Beautiful Love Story” In Washington Irving’s short story “The Wife”, we gain a short glimpse of a beautiful little romantic idyll. Behind every happy man, there stands a loving, super strong wife who will sink or swim and who will bear with him whatever great trouble he might have. A husband makes some bad speculations and is plunged into poverty. His friend urges him to tell her wife so she can support him, but he is afraid to. When, at last, he does tell her, she is transformed into a ravishing beauty who helps keep their newly purchased humble cottage like a castle, and sharing strawberries and cream in the backyard.
when it came to love. Washington Irving's short stories classified women as objects along with the teachings that women are the enemies and they are things the…
