In the story "Burge McCall" the relationship between Burge McCall and his wife is very complicated. Burge McCall is very stingy, a lady killer, a womanizer and violent and selfish to the people around him. The thing that made him nervous the most was the way his wife looked at him. His wife was a tall woman with black hair and big black eyes. She didn’t like to talk too much and people never used her first name, they always called her Mrs. McCall.
At the beginning of the story, the relationship between those two characters is a terrible disaster. They hate each other. Burge McCall never understand his wife. When he called her names she never answered. One day Burge McCall slapped Mrs. McCall on the face and this happened because Burge McCall didn’t like the way she looked at him.
Later, in the second part of the story, Burge McCall suddenly changed his attitude towards her. He got to taking her to the movies and picnics, and he spoke nicely to her. Burge McCall changed because he thought his wife wanted to poison him because one day he went to the drugstore and the pharmacist said that Mrs. McCall had bought rat poison, and he thought that she will poison him. He became a wonderful husband and then Mrs. McCall didn't have a reason to poison him.
Finally, Burge McCall and his wife could live their happy years together inspite of all the discussions and problems that they had at the beginning of their relationship
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Daphna
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