Stress

The couple of paragraph's talks about the (generals lover) and goes into describing the furniture.I got the impression that this girl was basically what Americans call a home wrecker. She was having an affair with a general who only visited her on Sunday's. Then she gets dressed every day while waiting on the general to go outside on her balcony to try and seduce another man who hasn't showed interest. This other man was a poor school teacher, who had house full of relatives living with him that he was supposed to take care of. His wife was giving him grief one day because he decided to buy himself a costly beer when his family needed shoes and books for school and they barely ate enough. I thought that was kind of selfish of him but it didn't do the wife any good to patronize him everyday because they where poor. So the man ended up killing the wife by accidentally strangling her to death just so he could get some peace.