Question

Read the epitaphs of Mr. and Mrs. Purkapile from the Spoon River Anthology and answer the question that follows.

Answer 1

Answer:

Explanation:

Mr. Purkapile lied and  abandoned his wife. With  trusting that she would leave him, but she stayed with him because she didn't want to be a divorcee, even after he lied saying that he was captured by privateers. You can only get as good as you are. is what Benjamin Franklin is saying.

Answer 2

Answer:

In this quotation Franklin is summarizing his beliefs about marriage, which several scholars have argued he bases on his own close reading of several Biblical Proverbs.

1.Benjamin Franklin said, "Good wives usually make good husbands" and "The likeliest Way, either to obtain a good Husband, or to keep one so, is to be Good yourself".

2.Benjamin Franklin would not be cheerful about the Purkapile's marriage in light of the fact that the spouse cherished the wife however the wife didn't generally adore her significant other. And because the husband loved the wife but the wife didn't really love her husband.

3.She would concur with Benjamin Franklin in light of the fact that at the time she saw her life as not her own, however an augmentation of her husband's.

4. She did not hear the story as many women have heard the same, with a   paralyzed inability to accept its significance. She wept at once, with sudden, wild abandonment, in her sister's arms.