Anne Roiphe Balances Summary

Anne Roiphe balances her two stories even though they were different, but comparable to her life by showing the similarities of her father and husband. Roiphe’s father like her husband were the same because they would spend all their time in some type of club or bar and were always too drunk to where they were incompetent to do a simple task like hold their children. They both used verbal abuse and smooth talk with their wives. One day they would say that their wives were beautiful and the next day they were slander anything about them. The husbands were both handsome men but thought of their wives as plain women with little beauty, and as they would continue to treat their wives like this it would exacerbate the wives feelings. The characteristic