Tom Benecke Character Analysis

Mary Maloney and Tom Benecke are exclusively unique persons, however, they have some harmonious sides, Mrs. Maloney is a wife that enormously passionate with her husband, that every day she would wait for him to come home from a long day in the force. She will sit in the same place in the living room and wait to overhear the tires on the gravel outside. In the contrary, Tom is a passionate person, but not to his loved one, but nevertheless to work, because he has been putting plenty of work in a project. Day and night he has been working so vigorously, so he can get a promotion in the store he works.
Benecke forgets about his wife, Clare, and his life outside of his profession. It took nearly a dead experience for Tom to apprehend that he has been wasting valuable components of his life, that he could have spent it with his wife. Faced with the awareness of not ever having those opportunities ever again.

Tom had multiple developments during the story that show him what he should be really passionate about.

It initiated when he was saying goodbye to his wife because he wanted to stay in the apartment to work, instead of going to watch a movie with her that they had been waiting a whole month. When he decided not to go he shuts the door, furthermore the breeze came rushing moreover, the important paper that had all of his production; that he had been working on for the past a month an half, he observed the paper flown away from the desk and through the window. "It was hard for him to understand that he actually had to abandon it- it was ridiculous- and he began to curse´´ (pg.10). As you can see it was really hard for him to let go of its time; it has been

wasted.
Benecke forgets about his wife, Clare, and his life outside of his profession. It took nearly a dead experience for Tom to apprehend that he has been wasting valuable parts of his life, that he could have spent it with his wife. Faced with the awareness of not ever having those opportunities ever again.
Mary Maloney, on the other hand, is a housewife in her sixth month of pregnancy, she always waits for her husband to return home in her comfy living room. It's a Thursday night, and usually, they go out to eat. When Patrick Maloney comes home, he is strangely moody and takes a stronger drink than usual. Mary tries to divert him with the usual domestic comforts but to no avail. Patrick asks her to sit down, announcing that he has an ['important matter to discuss with her. Though the reader is never told, it is clear that Patrick is going to divorce Mary. He ends his speech by saying that he will see that she is provided for and that he hopes that there will be no fuss because it might reflect badly on his position in the police department.