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
cultural circumstances that the two women were in.
Mrs. Mortimer from the Good Corn was a farmer's wife, she was uneducated and had not
known any other…
