The things people will sell for money -
This story is incredibly ripe with emotional tension.
There's the husband, probably furious, depressed, embarrassed, jealous, angry, confused, heartbroken, and more.
There's the wife, holding a dreaded secret and probably feeling guilty, there's the money necessity which drives her decision to turn to degrading prostitution, her marriage loss, possibly her confusion about how to be resourceful, loss of individuality, anger, confusion.
Then, the husband finds his wife in the brothel, so he is also probably a regular customer. So there's his own willingness to "share" while in a marriage.
Then there are the relationships between the wife's customers and the husband. He has to hear from his male friends about his wife.
Its actually an endless cycle of vicissitudes, each individual internally, between the couple, individually in connection to their immediate social network, and the chatter that goes on within the social network itself - the gossip, and now vis-a-vis the story how we in the world relate to the events.
The curious thing is the journalist wrote a very brief description almost as if it were some kind of Henny Youngman joke when in fact it is laden with pain. So the writing of the story itself conveys a network of assumptions and meanings.
Reuters: "What are you doing here?": man asks wife at brothel
A Polish man got the shock of his life when he visited a brothel and spotted his wife among the establishment's employees.
The couple, married for 14 years, are now divorcing...
2 comments:
Oy Va! as my old Polish Grandmother would have said. Sad. What can you say about the human condition and all it's tragicomedy et al...
Exactly - tragicomedy sums it up.
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