The women’s bodies are hidden in ravines or in cellars. He also taunts the police by sending them some of his victims’ personal documents accompanied by cheerful notes. In total, he is responsible for eleven torture-killings. Indeed, she finds out that he is the serial killer, Beadie, who has a long history of torturing and killing women. The united and stable American family soon starts to disintegrate, however, with Darcy’s discovery of Bob’s secret identity. The couple has two children who also seem to have fulfilled lives: their son, Donnie, runs his own ad firm with a friend, and their daughter, Petra, dedicates much of her time to her wedding preparations. King represents marital stability in everyday ways by stressing their simple, uneventful, enduring relationship: the medication taken for Bob’s thinning hair the concessions the couple makes as time goes by their support of each other through illness the reassurance of Bob’s physical presence and Darcy’s memories connected to smells and objects. In addition to being an accountant, Bob works with Darcy dealing in rare coins. Married for twenty-seven years, home-maker Darcellen Masden, and her accountant husband, Bob Anderson apparently share “a good marriage, one of the 50% or so” (266-67). The narrative reveals the fake foundations of apparently harmonious American family life. In his short story, “A Good Marriage,” King focuses on the intricacies of the female mind in order to cast a light on modern marriage. The theme of entrapment is also important, as highlighted by Barbara Welter, for instance, who describes the Gothic wife as “a hostage in the home” (Welter 15). King’s characters and settings are often familiar, and so reinforce the Gothic convention of dealing with domestic themes threatened by transgressive forces such as deprave sexuality and violence. This game is focused on unveiling and exploring his characters’ and the readers’ repressed childhood fears, or the letting out of the uncanny.

Stephen King has been involved in a game of hide and seek with his “Constant Reader” for over thirty-eight years.

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