Literature is filled with bickering couples, but it is difficult to point to any one precedent for the characters in this story.
To the extent that this dialogue is considered a sketch, a tradition can be traced back through the psychological sketch by fin de siecle women writers such as Ada Leverson, Evelyn Sharp, and Charlotte Mew, and on to regional sketches by nineteenth-century American women.
More relevant are Parker's contemporaries—Ernest.....
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