Katharine Brush's The Birthday Party

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Marriage is a big point of many people’s lives but even if you see a perfect couple every marriage has its ups and downs. Katharine Brush wrote a short story called Birthday Party to show the relationship between a husband and wife going through a decision of divorce. Katharine Brush uses imagery, symbolism, and tone to show the major conflict between the couple.
Brush uses imagery to show the wife and husband’s love. “Crying quietly and heartbrokenly and hopelessly, all to herself, under the gay big brim of her best hat.” The imagery of the wife crying hopelessly shows that the she still loves her husband and even wore her best hat for the occasion, but is rejected and not given a second chance to make things better. The crying shows

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