Painted door
... able to keep his direction for a hundred yard. Listen to it a minute and ask your self.¡¯ His voice seemed softer, kinder now. ¡¹ Ann believed that John would be able to come home, despite the strong blizzards. Steven, on the other hand, constantly saying that there never been any blizzards like this one, and John would not make it. In other words, John was making Ann to think that her husband would be away from home because of the blizzards. Likewise, Steven was very nice to her more than necessary. It is so clear that Steven was tempting Ann on purpose. However, Steven is not the only person who is blame for John¡¯s death. Besides Steven, John is also responsible for the affair between Ann and Steven. John should not have invited Steven over, because Steven was ill behaved person. Every neighbours thought Steven was wicked and sinful, but John let Steven being together with Ann. In addition, John made Ann to feel lonely. John left Ann alone in the house even if what Ann really wanted. Likewise, he never paid any attention to her, never listened to her, and spent all of his time on his working. In the second paragraph of page 51, it says, ¡¸ For spring was drudgery again. John never hired a man to help him. He wanted a mortgage-free farm; than a new house and pretty clothes for her. Sometimes, because with the best of crops it was going to take so long to pay off anyway, she wondered whether they mightn¡¯t better let the mortgage wait a little. Before they were worn out before their best years were gone. It was something of life she wanted, not just a house and furniture; something of John, not pretty clothes when she would be too old to wear them. But John of course couldn¡¯t understand. ¡¹ Even if he worked enthusiastically, and provided everything that they needed for living, he did not know what Ann really wanted. Accordingly, John made Ann to have an affair with Steven by making her lonely. Most important, the environment surrounding Ann led Ann to have a particu...