Document Type
Freshman Seminar Essay
Publication Date
1984
Excerpt
John Updike's book Too Far To Go is filled with short stories about the Maples, a typical suburban married couple. Most of the stories in Updike's book convey a feeling of sadness, a sadness beginning with the way in which the Maples have problems within their marriage. Somehow, no matter how hard they try to work out their problems, nothing ever helps. Ironically, the Maples get along better when they are apart from each other than when they are together. At the heart of their marriage is an essential incongruity or irony: their physical union in marriage tends to separate them while their physical separation appears to bring them together.
Recommended Citation
Costidakis, Stacy, ""Distance Makes the Heart Grow Fonder" (1984)" (1984). The Valpo Core Reader. 554.
http://scholar.valpo.edu/core_reader/554