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Mrs Bixby and the Colonel's Coat ..................Roald Dahl................

In Roald Dahl's story, Mrs. Bixby, a middle-class housewife, secretly visits her wealthy lover, the Colonel, in Baltimore under the pretense of visiting her aunt. Their affair has been ongoing for eight years.

Mrs Bixby and the Colonel's Coat ..................Roald Dahl................

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