Allison Weiner's Destructive Wealth In Allison Weiss

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Weiner compares the protagonist’s, Allison Weiss’s, realization of her husband’s cheating to an “infected tooth” (63) to represent her dwindling faith in her husband’s devotion and connect her present situation to her emotions. The imagery of an infected tooth as it decays and rots depicts the deterioration of her husband’s commitment as time progresses. The decaying and rotting tooth also affects an individual’s health. A disintegrating tooth is painful and corresponds to the domino theory: when a small part of the tooth is infected, the rest of it soon follows. Similarly, the realization that Allison’s husband is cheating on her develops in her brain and travels through her body to inflict pain upon her heart. Weiner expresses that heartbreak

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