On the outside, Sinclair Ross’s novel, As For Me and My House is a chronicle of the everyday life of a protestant minister and his wife in a small town. If the reader delves deeper into the novel you will discover that this novel is actually about the dysfunctional relationship that has developed between Phillip and his wife. The roots of this dysfunctionality lie in the internal conflict of both Phillip and Mrs. Bentley …showed first 75 words of 1272 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1272 total…that “a man’s tragedy is himself, not the events that overtake him...” As can be seen by the evidence presented above, the Bentleys conscious decisions are the precipitators of the events that overtake them. In life we must be prepared to accept the consequences of our actions whether they be positive or negative. In this respect the Bentley’s conscious decisions are the cause of their unhappiness and not any conditions beyond their control.