House

The majority of the novel takes place in the house where the narrator lives with her husband and two children. In "Tuesday," the narrator describes her home as "the most beautiful house in the neighborhood" (24, 25). The neighborhood is filled "with houses from the 1930s," all with "well-maintained yards that are shielded from view and probably have fruit trees and swings beyond the immense gates" (24). When the narrator was a young girl, she saw the neighborhood and houses like the house she resides in now as "an inaccessible dream" (24). Although she now lives in one of these coveted residences, the narrator remains unhappy. She particularly obsesses over the house's perpetual maintenance, convinced that if everything is not in order, her husband will leave her. She even suggests that she "will have only [her]self to blame" if her husband "stops wanting to come home one day" (25). She feels this...