Death Of The Hired Man

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Females tend to be more loving and rearing, then males. Mary, a character in the poem “The Death of the Hired Man,” by Robert Frost, encounters Silas by the barn door in the dead of night, she perceived that there is something wrong with Silas, and she was right, he was dying. So employing her “natural instinct” she cared for Silas for as long as he required. Mary tried to comfort him with some” tea and tried to make him smoke” (42), but all he wanted was to rest. Silas is an older man, also a very hard- working, but with very low status compared to his younger brother, who is a well-known man. Mary eventually puts the fragments together of why Silas came to her and not to his brother. Mainly since Silas compares himself to his brother, and

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