Cujo Part 2

Stephen King is a very graphic and detailed author who wrote the book I am currently reading, Cujo. When she writes the main characters veer from character to character. The family I am most interested in at the moment is Vic, Donna and Tad family. The mother Donna has been cheating on her husband and four year old child Tad with a man named Steve Kemp. After cheating with him five times she realizes she loves her family and knows what she did was wrong so she breaks up with. Breaking up with him infuriates him and he decides in revenge to write a letter to her husband providing evidence that they had a romantic relationship.

The husband gets the letter and he is very distraught and angry with both his wife and Steve Kemp. What confuses me is that after he confronts his wife and they talk things out things seem to go back to normal a little to fast. For example five minutes after the confrontation they are on their way up stairs to sleep together. This seems a little weird seeing that she just did something that in many marriages would cause a divorce and they seemed to resolve it in a matter of minutes. I think that what Donna did was an unforgivable mistake and Vic should have made a point of making her guilty so she would think twice before repeating her decision.

Another thing that jostles my memory is that Vic asks Donna what seem like a pretty ethical question to me. He asked, “Have you ever cheated on me with anyone else?” Donna reacted badly and ran up stairs and shut the door in his face but I think he has the right to know since she did it once and has proved her self untrustworthy. I also think seeing that Vic has just given her a forgiveness she didn’t deserve she should not have gotten that angry with him.

I am completely on the same side as Vic in this part of the story and bad for him about Donna. He did nothing wrong and she had no right to get angry with him seeing that she had just cheated on him. I hope everything works out between them but also that Donna learns her lesson.