The couple s relationship goes smoothly until the in-laws emerge into the picture. Inder s family moves into the couple s apartment. This is the dramatic situation that Grace encounters. She cannot handle the environment created by Inder s family, and it eventually ruins the pair s marriage. The migratory in-laws have split the two by drawing a cultural boundary between them.
Grace begins to identify their main cultural differences about halfway through the story.
This thickens the barrier between the man and wife to a point where their differences cannot be reconciled. The two extremes, rejection and complete conformation, displayed by the stories at hand are reached through different circumstances. Mary Rowlandson is held captive by a race of people that destroyed roughly everything positive in her life. These Indians kill her friends and one of her sons. They demolish her town and her house.