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Webster's Dictionary defines comfort as, "to give strength, hope to, or to console" (61). People find strength or consolation in different ways. Each person has a unique manner and need for that special thing that comforts them. Baker writes that: "Heming ....

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.... the actions of Dr. Adams and Nick. According to Jackson Benson, after the row with Dick Boulton in "The Doctor and the Doctor's Wife," Mrs. Adams only attempts to second guess Dr. Adams. Instead of backing her husband up or sympathizing with him, Mrs. Adams scolds her husband and expresses the suspicion that it was Dr. Adams who caused all the trouble. Her tone effectively reduces the doctors status to that of a little boy. Her further refusal to believe her husband after patronizingly urging him not to "try to keep anything from me" belittles him into a posture not only of a naughty little boy, but a sulky and not even a very t ....