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Margery complains to her sister-in-law, Alithea, about her marriage to Pinchwife. He keeps her cooped up in the house and will not let her go out into the city.
Margery quite reasonably announces that “anyone” would be miserable in the situation that she is in. Pinchwife is extremely jealous and possessive, keeps her locked in the house, will not let her be seen in public and becomes aggressive if he suspects Margery’s interest in any other man. Margery’s point here supports one of the central ideas in the play; that jealousy is destructive and that a jealous husband is a…