Question

Justify the view that the husbands of Mrs. Slater and Mrs.Jordan are men with no individuality ?

Answer 1

In ‘The Dear Departed’ Mrs Slater’s and Mrs. Jordan’s husbands are mere puppets at the hand of their wives.

They are men with no individuality as they seek permission from their wives for even minute things.

Henry Salter and Ben Jordan do not use their intelligence but seek approval of their wives Amelia and Elizabeth respectively.

Answer 2

Explanation:

The husbands of Mrs.' Jordan and Slater were men with no individuality because they only heard of their wives, they were puppets of their wives who dances as they asked them to do. As Mrs. Slater decides to vanish the bureau of grandfather his husband helped him to do it and the same was with Mr. and Mrs. Jordan.