Question

Why was the bulky woman so full of grief?

Answer 1

Answer:

the bulky women was so full of grief because her only son was being sent to the front for the war.

Answer 2

Answer:

The mother is upset, according to her husband, since their son, an only child to whom they have "devoted their entire life," is scheduled to depart for the front lines in three days.

Explanation:

• Some passengers from Rome are compelled to spend the most of the night in a second-class train car that is parked at the Fabriano station as they wait for the local train that will transport them the remaining distance to the hamlet of Sulmona. They pick up two more travellers at dawn: a huge woman who is "almost like a shapeless bundle" and her small, lean husband. The woman must be helped onto the carriage by the other passengers because she is in profound mourning and is so distraught and incompetent.
• The reason for this statement, according to the author, is that the war has torn his wife away from their twenty-year-old son, "a lad of twenty to whom both had committed their entire existence." He claims that the son will advance to the front. The father says they were promised that their son wouldn't leave for six months when they approved of his enlistment, thus his impending departure has surprised them. They recently learned that he will leave in three days, though.

Thus this is the answer.

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