The Accident

After carefully reading the poem I stumbled upon a theory that I thought made sense. It seems to me that the woman’s husband is having an affair with the neighbor. The neighbor came over the house because the husbands’ wife invited her. The neighbor and the wife are good friends. But on lines 21-27 the mood shifted “It was when the neighbor answered “ yes” to a question the woman’s husband had not yet asked that the woman finally understood Her husband had not even mentioned eggs, but the neighbor knew he was going to cook for her. How many times had they eaten together the woman watching wondered. Enough.” The husband finally senses something’s wrong “his hands were trembling.” (line45) The fact that both women were in the room made him nervous.