How I Met My Husband

“How I Met My Husband” 1. The plot structure in this story is chronological order. The arrangement of the plot elements it’s effective because its tells us exactly what the title is, how Edie met her husband. My expectations as a reader are overturned when she marries the mailman. Throughout the whole story I thought she would marry the pilot, like every other love story. After waiting some time the love of their life comes back and marries them. Instead she while waiting for the pilot she met the mailman and married him. When she didn’t really make him important until the last few paragraphs. 2. Suspense is first seen when Chris arrives to town. Everyone wants to know what he is doing there and it’s dragged out when he goes to the Peebles’ house because he’s alone with Edie. She still doesn’t know what kind of man he is or anything. There is a point that also leaves us wondering if he will tell the Peebles’s that Edie was playing queen in their house. Suspense is increased when Chris’s fiancé arrives because it breaks the love story we think is possible with him and Edie. Also suspense is through the whole story because we all think she’s going to marry Chris but at the end marries the mailman. 3. Minor characters like Loretta Bird and Mrs.Peebles help advance the plot because they help show the person Edie is. In the beginning their actions show that Edie is from the country. She works for Mrs. Peebles and Loretta Bird is the nosey neighbor we all have but yet she brings comedy to the story. 4. Edie is definitely sympathetic character. The role of being “hired girl” makes her more prone of being sympathetic. She works for a married couple that has it all versus her who has nothing and is living far away from home. Another reason we feel sorrier for her is that she wait for Chris’s letter day after day. At this point we know that she was just another girl to fall for Chris like every other one. She comes out as a very naïve person. 5.