Mrs Bixby and the Colonel's Coat ..................Roald Dahl................
The Doubt
Once a month, Mrs Bixby travels to Baltimore to be with her old women aunt
The Bixby are a married couple that lives in New York.
Mr. Bixby work as a dentist
She's a housewife
They are a middle class marriage.
This story is an example of a narrative resource called raising its own trap. It means that someone ends up being defeated because of their own plan.
In the case of Mrs. Bixby, she wanted to prevent her infidelity from being exposed and thought that she could recover her precious coat.
But instead, discovers her husband's infidelity and she cannot confront because she would have to bring out her own.
Fraud
She was going to meet her lover
A man of well-off class
The Colonel
She had a relationship with him for 8 years.
They saw each other the year
Once a month, Mrs Bixby travels to Baltimore
She was very fond of the old lady
A monthly meeting
It was not reasonable for Mr Bixby to deny him the visit
Mrs Bixby visits to her great-aunt Maude
Farewell
When she spending a day with the colonel
she went to see their hunts
They rode
They spend time together
Not knowing it would be the last time they would see each other
In return, he gave her a beautiful mink coat
She didn't know what to do, it was obvious that the coat is expensive
The colonel disappears
Back Home
She couldn't use her aunt's alibi
She goes to where the lendering
The lender pay very little compared to the real value
She arrives with her husband and tells him that a loan slip was found
Her husband insists on going to claim the product
But, he comes back with a stole instead of the coat
