The Other Two

I really like “The Other Two,” I found it interesting to see the point of view of Mr. Waythorn. When he married Mrs. Waythorn he didn’t really seem to think about her two ex-husbands until they started to become part of their lives.

Mr. Haskett was depicted as a terrible person to me at the first mention. Then once he starts to show up in the story he doesn’t seem that bad. He just wants to have a part in his daughters live and wants to see that she has the proper up bringing for her station. Mr. Waythorn though he doesn’t seem to agree that the governess which was currently tending to Lily wasn’t good enough he still fired her when Mr. Haskett asked. The fact that Mr. Haskett was coming into Mr. Waythorn’s house seemed to be Mr. Waythorn’s biggest issue with the situation.

Then there is Mr. Varick was the second ex-husband of Mrs. Waythorn, which Mr. Waythorn didn’t really have a problem with but was uncomfortable with associating with him at first after marrying his ex-wife. They seem to work through any issues there was with the comfort zone when Mr. Waythorn’s partner became sick with the gout and Mr. Waythorn had to take care of Mr. Varick’s account. It seemed that it was going to be an issue when by chance Mrs. Waythorn was speaking to Mr. Varick at a function and Mr. Waythorn was uncomfortable about it until she explained that she thought that it would be better for her to speak to him than to ignore him and walk away. By the end of the story society had even started to invite them to the same parties

The last page was interesting when they all seemed to end up in the library by accident. This seemed to show the best outcome possible when a woman from the early 20^th century has two ex-husbands.