Discuss how cultural circumstances effect a character's reaction to certain situations. There is one major difference in The Good Corn and Turned and that is the reactions of the wives to their husbands actions. In reality what the two men did was the same but how the two women reacted was entirely different. Mrs. Mortimer forgave her husband and Mrs. Marroner up and left her husband. This difference in reactions is caused by the different …showed first 75 words of 674 total…

…showed last 75 words of 674 total…When he returned to Boston he searched in desperation for her, in a way it seemed like he needed her for support, he was unconfident and if their marriage broke up then it would damage his public image or status. A persons cultural circumstance greatly effects how a person will behave in certain situations, The Marroners and Mortimers went through basically the same situation and yet how the men and women reacted were entirely different.