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What do you do, feel, or even act like when your life is changed from one event maybe not in your life, but in someone else’s? Well that’s what happens to Norma Jean Moffitt in the story “Shiloh” by Bobbie Ann Mason. Norma Jean’s husband was the kind of husband who was never home, but at random moments here and there, when he was passing by from trips driving his truck. She was content with this, well in reality she grew to having absolutely no problems with his line of work, until the day came when he couldn’t do his job anymore. Leroy Moffitt injured his leg in a highway accident and was home ever since he was unable to drive his tractor-trailer. These two people now stuck in one home, married, and to Norma Jean, stuck together under one roof. After awhile Norma Jean realizes she can’t take him being home. She also realizes that she really doesn’t know who her husband is or even was. And in the end does Norma Jean stand at the brink of her freedom, or her own death? Norma Jean I think is standing on the edge of that cliff staring at her death. Not maybe because she wants to die, but knowing that she has nothing more to look forward, but the reality of the end. Norma Jean was a woman who was content w