How I Met My Husband

Throughout the whole short story, the speaker describes an event that eventually leads up to how she met her husband. Up until the last section of the text, readers assume Edie's future husband is Chris Watters, the plane pilot. Watters is an ex-army pilot who claims to move from the war. Really, he is just trying to avoid his less-than-pretty fiancee, Alice Kelling. After messing around with Edie, he promises to write her, then leaves for the next town without Alice knowing. Edie waits everyday by the mailbox until she realizes "no letter was ever going to come" (146). Her waiting for a man who the readers assume will be her future husband actually leads to her meeting her real future husband, Carmichael, the mailman. Instead of promising a letter, Charmichael pursues Edie and asks her on a date.