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it's there"(445). He implies that the argument isn't that important, and she would forget about the whole thing soon enough. For the night, however, things have been made somewhat more exciting than before.
Several symbols convey the couple's feelings, and what the ultimate result of their arguing will be like. The wife seems to mold their conversation in the direction she wants to make it go when she "began washing the bowl again, turning it…as though she were shaping it"(444). The husband's resentfulness at many of her words and the turn in the conversation have made the mood dull just as "the water had gone flat and grey"(445) in the sink. Inevitably the heat of the dispute was at hand but would cool in turn like the metal of the silverware they were washing. As the heat of the water hit it, it was "darkened to pale blue, then turned silver again"(445). While the cut had been painful at the moment, it hadn't been deep and would not be noticed in time. The dogs in ...

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