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published Jul 05, 2018

The husband had got into the habit of calling the wife from somewhere in the house—if she was upstairs, he was downstairs; if she was downstairs, he was upstairs—and when she answered, “Yes? What?,” he would continue to call her, as if he hadn’t heard and with an air of strained patience: “Hello? Hello? Where are you?” And so she had no choice but to hurry to him, wherever he was, elsewhere in the house, downstairs, upstairs, in the basement or outside on the deck, in the back yard or in the driveway. “Yes?” she called, trying to remain calm. “What is it?” And he would tell her—a complaint, a remark, an observation, a reminder, a query—and then, later, she would hear him calling again with a new urgency, “Hello? Hello? Where are you?,” and she would call back, “Yes? What is it?,” trying to determine where he was. He would continue to call, not hearing her, for he disliked wearing his hearing aid around the house, where there was only the wife to be heard. He complained that one of the little plastic devices in the shape of a snail hurt his ear, the tender inner ear was reddened and had even bled, and so he would call, pettishly, “Hello? Where are you?”—for the woman was always going off somewhere out of the range of his hearing, and he never knew where the hell she was or what she was doing; at times, her very being exasperated him—until finally she gave in and ran breathless to search for him, and when he saw her he said reproachfully, “Where were you? I worry about you when you don’t answer.” And she said, laughing, trying to laugh, though none of this was funny, “But I was here all along!” And he retorted, “No, you were not. You were not. I was here, and you were not here.” And later that day, after his lunch and before his nap, unless it was before his lunch and after his nap, the wife heard the husband calling to her, “Hello? Hello? Where are you?,” and the thought came to her, No. I will hide from him. But she would not do such a childish thing. Instead she stood on the stairs and cupped her hands to her mouth and called to him, “I’m here. I’m always here. Where else would I be?” But the husband couldn’t hear her and continued to call, “Hello? Hello? Where are you?,” until at last she screamed, “What do you want? I’ve told you, I’m here.” But the husband couldn’t hear and continued to call, “Hello? Where are you? Hello!,” and finally the wife had no choice but to give in, for the husband was sounding vexed and angry and anxious. Descending the stairs, she tripped and fell, fell hard, and her neck was broken in an instant, and she died at the foot of the stairs, while in one of the downstairs rooms, or perhaps in the cellar, or on the deck at the rear of the house, the husband continued to call, with mounting urgency, “Hello? Hello? Where are you?”

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A obvious detail is that the husband has issues with hearing

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They are inside their house/property

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Implicit details: I think the purpose that the author was trying to convey is that even if something about someone you love annoys you, you shouldn't let that get the best of you. You should always savor your time with loved ones.

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The husband wears a hearing aid

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Husband and wife

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Two characters: Wife and Husband

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The setting : Their house

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The man has bad hearing.

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The husband refuses to wear his hearing aid

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The husband often never knows where his wife is, and that seems to scare him, because he doesn't want anything to happen to her.

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The setting in this story is their house. The wife and husband are always on different sides of the house and can never find each other. They have trouble hearing each other when they call each other's names. The husband disliked wearing his hearing aid around the house which is ironic because he never uses his hearing aid when its important. I think the author was trying to show that you should go get what you want rather than just calling up upon what you want.

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The author's purpose is not to rush and be patient

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Sometimes people do things out of love and are not just doing it to annoy you.

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The husband never wears his hearing aid. The hearing aid could help identify when this took place

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story is about a man who cant hear and it annoys his wife

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A couple keeps calling for eachother but the husband can’t hear her because he is def and he stops calling when she comes to him.

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The husband and wife live in a somewhat large house.

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the house has stairs

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The husband refuses to wear a hearing aid. He can't hear his wife when she has been there all along. He gets frustrated because he thinks she doesn't respond to him, and she gets frustrated because she responds, but he doesn't hear her.

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the husband can't hear no matter where she is unless he can see her

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The obvious and main detail is how the husband is deaf and doesn't exactly know where his wife is in the house.

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The wife got so angry with her husband that she tripped down the stairs and broke her neck

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The husband refuses to wear his hearing aids which irritates the wife because she always has to move so he can hear her,

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the husband doesn't want wear his hearing aid

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suspenseful

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The author's message that they are trying to get across is the instead of being impatient try to find patience within yourself

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The husband worries about his wife's well being

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the man is too lazy to get up and look for his wife himself

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The wife has a angry tone towards her husband.

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Implicit: The man in the story is deaf. He wears a hearing aid. 

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Implicit: The man in the story is deaf. He wears a hearing aid. 

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man wont wear hearing aids cause it hurts his ears

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they live in a house

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The wife is short tempered.

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Husband and Wife.

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no matter how much you love some one you could treat them bad.

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The setting is placed in the husband and wife's house.

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The husband refuses to wear his hearing aid because it hurts him.