Tension And Violence

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to very serious violence and various kinds of tensions between a married couple. In addition the tension comes into being through what is not said that is through repressed feelings. I will also speak about the fact how persons through mental violence come back to the 'original' situation between two lovers. To a situation where tension must be explained as love tension but where there are many things not spoken about and not settled.
Alice Munro's story The Time of Death tells about very strong feelings of women and how men are perfectly disregarded. In this story men are underestimated and the violence is not pointed at an individual but men as a whole, as a sex.
1. Her Table Spread
Mr Alban is supposed to be the protagonist in the short story. He has been invited to the castle to some party because there is some tension between him and Miss Cuffe. That's what the author lets the reader believe. In reality there is no tension and if there has been, it has been experienced by ...

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there seems to be some erotic tension as well. Valeria has gone out to wait Mr Garrett to arrive. By mistake she talks to Mr Alban as if she were talking to Mr Garrett. Despite Mr Alban's explanation Valeria won't believe that it is a question of a wrong person.
'Hi!' she croaked. Then: 'You are there! I hear you!'
'Miss Cuffe---'
'How too bad you are! I never heard you rowing. I thought you were never coming----'(p. 79)

In this situation Valeria is highly excited and she Carries Mr Alban with herself and makes him, for a moment at least, interested in her. A moment later the incident goes on:
Behind, through the windows, lamps spread great skirts of light, and Mars ...

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