On Keeping Women
“Now add about five. Six. The house is sleek now, fresh as a prism with the light that comes from gently ringing telephones. And so is she. They have three separate phone lines now: one of course for Ray, one for the three older children’s impassioned teen-age conversations, and one for her own activities—the village’s word for whatever its women like her (still young and well-favored and perhaps with more energy than is needed) do with themselves. Since she has help, and the accessory services ...that help demands, the house is now organized. And so is she.
Both the house and she—having arrived with their mutual weight of goods and children at a certain recognizable stage for many such houses along the road and such wives—now spin like tops, singing ones, around an orbit whose central truth hasn’t yet been revealed (all are agreed on that) but surely will be, perhaps on retirement, or at the birth of the first grandchild. When it will come too late to be taken advantage of. So meanwhile she goes into the city twice a week.MoreLess
Both the house and she—having arrived with their mutual weight of goods and children at a certain recognizable stage for many such houses along the road and such wives—now spin like tops, singing ones, around an orbit whose central truth hasn’t yet been revealed (all are agreed on that) but surely will be, perhaps on retirement, or at the birth of the first grandchild. When it will come too late to be taken advantage of. So meanwhile she goes into the city twice a week.MoreLess
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