Jealousy of the wives

“Since the time of her rejection Belle had been unable to shake off her jealousy...that the punishment of blindness was a punishment for her too.”

Introduction

Keeping in view of the storyline, this quote talks about indifference and attitude issues and concerns that occur between Belle and her significant other, to whom she considers the most important. Here, with reference to the quote, we shall be covering the accounts and impact of jealousy upon the lives of people. Since the novel from which the quote has been excerpted, we shall be discussing the emotion of jealousy at length, as to what are the repercussions of this disastrous feeling. Excerpted from William Trevor's 'Selected Stories', “The piano tuner's wives” embodies the need to belong to someone. With the quote given to us above, it shows how jealous and relentlessness simultaneous could tarnish and sabotage a relationship that is between individuals.

The Stories of William Trevor is a compilation of previous volumes published between 1967 and 1983 — The Day We Got Drunk on Cake and Other Stories (1967), The Ballroom of Romance and Other Stories (1972), Angels at the Ritz and Other Stories (1975), Lovers of Their Time and Other Stories (1978), and Beyond the Pale and Other Stories (1981). All of the collections were first published in England by the Bodley Head; the individual stories, sixty in all, appeared initially in prestigious magazines such as the Antioch Review, Antaeus, and The New Yorker, as well as in various anthologies. William Trevor's achievements as a writer are not limited to the short story. He has written a number of plays for radio, television, and the stage — some of which have been adapted from his short stories; he is also the author of eight novels. In spite of his accomplishments in other genres, however, this collection of his work suggests that the short story may be the literary form in which he excels (Sullivan, 418).

Discussion

With the quote mentioned above, Trevor attempts to discuss the idea and the overall feeling of belonging and jealousy that individuals may otherwise have. This is because Trevor's style of writing and understanding was one of the most dynamic instances, where he would adopt a rather empathetic approach and narrate the reader the true feelings of females, as to what they feel. Further explaining with reference to context, Trevor embodies the true fact that no matter how hard a women tries to woo and get the attention of his Beloved, if once they have been set free and moved on with the companionship of someone else, there is no way for a woman to survive on her own (Sullivan, 418). Born in Mitchelstown, County Cork, in 1928, Trevor spent his boyhood in provincial Ireland, was educated at Trinity College, Dublin, and has lived and worked in England for more than twenty years. It is thus hardly surprising to find that a number of his stories have an Irish or an Anglo-Irish provenance.

These stories, however, ...