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In our opinion, this is the best character of the story because he had to live with the Fosters and bear with them without saying a word. He seems good at his work, he is respectful of both his employers and is sympathetic to Mrs. Foster's anxiety, giving her calming answers.

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“Stay here! I´m going to get it,” he commanded.

But Mrs. Foster had had enough. She had been waiting for him for thirty years already, and she couldn't keep doing it.

“Please, no!” she exclaimed, holding his cold gaze. “If you leave the car, I´m leaving you here.”

“No, you won´t,” he laughed, without believing his well-behaved wife would be capable of doing such a thing. “I´ll be back.”

With no hesitation, Mr. Foster opened the door and left the car after sending a threatening look to Mrs. Foster, which she wasn't able to receive due to her eyes being blinded by her out of rage.

As soon as her husband slammed the door, Mrs. Foster glared at the chauffeur. “It's too late. Hurry, driver, hurry!” she demanded, but the confused man stood there in shock. “Don’t just sit there, man. Get going! I’ve got a plane to catch for Paris!”

Following her orders, the chauffeur started the car and began the journey to the airport. Mr. Foster, who was just opening the front door of the house, heard the car´s engine. Realizing his wife had been telling the truth, he ran towards the moving car trying to stop Mrs. Foster, screaming for her to stay. But Mrs. Foster didn´t look back at him once before leaving the tormenting life that she had been living and her abusive husband behind.

Completely assured with her decision, she thought about how this single action had made her feel free, in a way she hasn't felt in all those thirty years living in the house. Looking back at the tedious life she had maintained, she decided she could never come back to it. She saw an opportunity to live the rest of her life happy in Paris with her daughter and grandchildren, and she took it.

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Eugene Foster starts out as a loving and caring wife who fears her husband, endures him talking her down “Don’t be so stupid, woman. Everything you do, you seem to want to make a fuss about it”; she would never complain in front of her husband and only dares to manifest her preoccupation with the butler. When she points out his nil ability to give gifts, “[...] It’s only one of those silly combs anyway. You’re always giving her combs” he blows up in anger and tells her to wait in the car while he looks for it inside the house.

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The way Mrs. Foster perceives her husband changes throughout the story and is probably the product of her burning desire to break free. This situation led her to leave her husband while he was trapped.  When she finally gets her revenge, she’s more authoritative and no longer lowers her head, “There was no longer that rather soft and silly look”; “Hurry, driver, hurry! [...] Don’t sit there talking, man. Get going! I’ve got a plane to catch for Paris!”

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Mrs. Foster has an almost pathological fear of being late and this time she wanted to make a trip to Paris, to see her daughter and meet her grandchildren for the first time. Her husband always deliberately makes her wait until a few minutes late to get going, knowing how anxious that made her, but she never complained nor thought that he did it on purpose; “he had disciplined her too well for that”.  This is possible due to a power imbalance in the couple.

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- Authoritarianism
- Sexism
- Submission

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The time setting is unknown

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Butler
-helpful
-patient

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Placed in New York and Paris

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Chauffeur
-quiet
-obedient

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Published on February 27, 1954

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Type: Short story

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Mr. Foster
-bossy
-strict
-rude

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Mrs. Foster
-coward
-anxious
-submissive

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He was a Welsh novelist, short-story writer, poet, screenwriter, and wartime fighter pilot.