As I would again if he came near. You know beauty makes sex possible. Beauty makes sex sex. This speaks to the value system of our own generation, whose heroes are beautiful and whose role models are models . By her own admission, the wife in Carson's book loved her husband for his beauty.
Life mirrors the wife's inclination.
The world finds fulfillment in beauty, is content to trace the outside of the package and forfeit all else. The beauty of the husband was what the wife wanted, yet it slipped through her fingers before she ever truly possessed it. The tango, that passionate, physically expressive lovers' dance to sultry music, is a fitting mode for The Beauty of the Husband . These tangos spin a story of a physical attraction that loomed larger than common sense, burned hotter than caution, consumed everything else in the wife's life. Although her husband was weak and unfaithful, she had chosen him, after all, for his beauty.