the feather pillow

“He, for his part, loved her profoundly but never let it be seen,” this statement in particular stuck out to me in The Feather Pillow. After I reread the story, I wondered was it Jordan’s poor judgment that caused Alicia’s death, or was it the lack of profound love? I myself think it was both. If he hadn’t given up so easily or possibly gotten a second opinion, then she might’ve had a stronger chance of survival. Maybe if he had shown her more love and affection she wouldn’t have gotten sick to begin with. The Feather Pillow took me on a roller coaster ride, but after reading it a couple more times I found a lot of situations that could have been easily prevented. Alicia’s husband could have taken better care of her not just emotionally but physically as well. As critical as this may sound, if Jordan was truly “deep in love” then how could he stand by and watch his other half perish without so much as a protest to the doctor’s inconclusive diagnosis. When the doctor gave up, so did her husband. We saw that when he said, “That’s my last hope!” Had I been Jordan and Alicia had been my wife, I think I could have seen the problem for what it really was. I would have moved her to home that actual made her feel at home or at least examine the house we were in. Even though Jordan loved Alicia, I feel as though he failed her. Jordan should have taken a different course of action. As soon as he saw that his wife was even the slightest bit ill, a sense of urgency should have kicked in. His mistake was that he assumed that her symptoms would go away in the morning. On the other side of the table I believe that Alicia should have tried to relocate herself from the room that she was sleeping in. We all know that the bug was living in Alicia’s room and was sneaking onto her bed every night to suck the life out of her. Alicia should have had some common sense to go sleep in