Answer to Question #316428 in English for Andy

Question

1. What is the central idea/ theme? Justify your answer.

Scenario: While reading the How I met My Husband by Alice Munroe, there is a specific line that struck and made you think of. The line goes as:

Till it came to me one day there were women doing this with their lives, all over. There were women just waiting and waiting by mail-boxes for one letter or another. I imagined me making this journey day after day and year after year, and my hair starting to go gray, and I thought, I was never made to go on like that. So I stopped meeting the mail if there were women all through life waiting, and women buy and not waiting, I knew which I had to be. Even though there might be things the second kind of women have to pass up.and never know about, it still is better.

Answer 1

Central theme is love is patient. This is because she says, “So I stopped meeting the mail if there were women all through life waiting, and women buy and not waiting, I knew which I had to be. Even though there might be things the second kind of women has to pass up and never know about, it still is better.”