Why The Woman Who Locked Her Husband Out

Every story has its plot, it has its catch, sometimes it has a part that makes the reader think they cannot stop reading; perhaps it even has a line or paragraph that makes them question why they read the story at all. This could potentially be called the messed up awesome factor. In The Woman Who Locked Her Husband Out, there is a preposterous part of the story and an awesome part of the story; each which keeps the reader wondering why did they keep reading this story and wow, I am glad I finished reading this story. First of all, it was very preposterous that this married woman decided to punish her husband’s jealousy, no matter how unjust, with exactly that which he feared most. “She resolved to make him suffer in earnest from the ill which hitherto he had feared without cause.” (Boccacio 161) People wish that when they found that one person they were going to spend the rest of their lives with, that each would enter this
Not that he has been the perfect husband up to this point in the story, but it takes a certain type of person to still fear for the health and safety of a person, even after discovering the horrible truth that he had. “So he seized the pail and its rope, rushed head long from the house, and ran to the well to assist her” (Boccacio 162). His intentions were not of the golden hearted, he wanted her to pay for her unfaithfulness, to shame her for putting him to bed beyond intoxicated every night and finding comfort in another mans bed. But when he felt she had actually taken the drastic step and jumped into the well, all those thoughts disappeared and all he could think to do was save her life. Though only a rouse to get him out of the house, most people would have let her be and let people wonder what it was she had been doing out at that time of night anyway. He might have had a raving jealous streak, but the love ran deep in the husbands