Rice Husband

The Story “Rice Husband” focuses on the life and story of Lena yet again. In this tale, Lena is now married to a guy who work in the same architect company as she, and has just bough ten a new house. When her mother comes by for a visit, she says that her house is too expensive for a done up barn and a mildew stained pool together they must face the hardships of Lena‘s married life. The story also focuses around the fact that Lena’s mother can somehow predict the future and knows what is going to happen in her family. The tale reminisces on a story her mother told her long ago, about her future husband and how not eating enough food and being wasteful led up to her ending up with her present beau. Lena’s mother claims that she has married a bad man because she did not eat as much as she should as a child. During this time, Lena’s marriage is clearly depicted as being less than great. They must split everything, including bills, house payments, date expenses, etc.. all down the middle, which quite annoys me. Where did chivalry go?? He seems to treat Lena as more of a room mate than a wife and they even have to make lists of things they buy that they both use so that they can pay each other back for it. At the end of the story, however, despite the fact that Lena’s marriage isn’t peachy, she finds out that she has inherited the same gift that her mother has.