One night of going out from the theater, the wife gets into a bad cough and passed away because of pneumonia. Despite all the excuses from the wife, he still thinks his wife has the taste of a regular Gypsy and seems disrespect her enjoyment. He is not comfortable seeing his wife in those jewelry that he thinks it is fake. Instead of being encouraging for what she likes, he tries to tell her not to wear those by saying “My dear, when one has not the mean to afford real jewelry, one should appear adorned with one’s natural beauty and grace only”. She loves to wear jewelry but never get the support from him. She doesn’t agree at first but then she has to please him. However, he tries to convince her to go with someone else but him. It can be understood because men have to go to work and they need to save energy. He refuses to go to the theater with her because of being tiring. Beside of being in love with her, “there were only two points upon which he ever found fault with her-her love of the theater, and her passion with false jewelry”.
However, he doesn’t always try his best to appreciate the woman of his life.
Lantin loves his wife so much, “six years after he married her, he loved her even more than he did the first day”. At the beginning of the story, she is described as a present to M.
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