In addition to being an accountant, Bob works with Darcy dealing in rare coins. Married for twenty-seven years, home-maker Darcellen Masden, and her accountant husband, Bob Anderson apparently share “a good marriage, one of the 50% or so” (266-67). The narrative reveals the fake foundations of apparently harmonious American family life. In his short story, “A Good Marriage,” King focuses on the intricacies of the female mind in order to cast a light on modern marriage. The theme of entrapment is also important, as highlighted by Barbara Welter, for instance, who describes the Gothic wife as “a hostage in the home” (Welter 15). King’s characters and settings are often familiar, and so reinforce the Gothic convention of dealing with domestic themes threatened by transgressive forces such as deprave sexuality and violence. This game is focused on unveiling and exploring his characters’ and the readers’ repressed childhood fears, or the letting out of the uncanny. Stephen King has been involved in a game of hide and seek with his “Constant Reader” for over thirty-eight years.
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