Mary and Dick's marriage differences-The Grass Is Singing

There are several differences in Dick and Mary’s background and personality, and because of the different reasons that come under these two factors, it spelled doom for Mary and Dick’s hasty marriage.
Mary is known to lead a very carefree lifestyle in town, and she was more than glad to get away from her childhood house, which she had aptly described as “the sordid little house on stilts”(page 42). She was also ironically happy when her father died, because “that removed the last link that bound her to a childhood she hated to remember.”(Page 42). Thus, one can tell that Mary’s ‘preference for town life’ is probably just another of way of describing her ‘desire to get away from her childhood’. The buildings, social and economic environment in town was very much different from that in the countryside. Living in town meant that Mary would not have to struggle with poverty the same way her family did when she was young. Besides that, Mary was never alone in town- sh...