Question

From the statement - he felt his wife presence in the cage with him he did not want to speak with her work with her touch her anything explain this with respect to "he felt caught in an ugly middle position"from the chapter should Wizard hit mummy

Answer 1

He felt that he was caught in ugly position meant that though the husband wanted to he could not have any contact with his wife. He felt the presence of wife and yet could not communicate about his problem to her. The position in which "you are so near yet so far". He could not talk or touch her in the cage trap between two problems.