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- # Wife's Objections and Domestic Inconveniences
## Overview
This segment, titled "Wife's Objections and Domestic Inconveniences," is part of the short story "[I and My Chimney](arke:01KG6YFYGCYAYC9GHGT2Z086S9)". It was extracted from the file "[i_and_my_chimney.txt](arke:01KG6YDDFE1YJ2Q37Q9JT1AJVB)" and is part of the "[Melville](arke:01KG6YCG626JN4FCG8QK17CQCF)" collection. The segment covers lines 321 to 333 of the source text.
## Context
This segment is situated within the narrative of "[I and My Chimney](arke:01KG6YFYGCYAYC9GHGT2Z086S9)", a short story by Herman Melville. It follows the segment "[Further Defense and Centrality of the Chimney](arke:01KG6YGAFVRR4WP0W362SK4TTD)" and precedes an unnamed segment. The story itself is part of the larger "[Melville](arke:01KG6YCG626JN4FCG8QK17CQCF)" collection.
## Contents
The segment details the narrator's wife's complaints about their large chimney. She likens its size to the English aristocracy, suggesting it casts a "contracting shade" and causes "endless domestic inconveniences." Her primary objection is the chimney's "stubborn central locality," which obstructs the space where she believes a proper entrance hall should be. The narrator notes that the house lacks a true hall, possessing only a square landing area at the entrance.
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- Wife's Objections and Domestic Inconveniences
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- But stately as is the chimney—yea, grand high altar as it is, right
worthy for the celebration of high mass before the Pope of Rome, and
all his cardinals—yet what is there perfect in this world? Caius Julius
Caesar, had he not been so inordinately great, they say that Brutus,
Cassius, Antony, and the rest, had been greater. My chimney, were it
not so mighty in its magnitude, my chambers had been larger. How often
has my wife ruefully told me, that my chimney, like the English
aristocracy, casts a contracting shade all round it. She avers that
endless domestic inconveniences arise—more particularly from the
chimney’s stubborn central locality. The grand objection with her is,
that it stands midway in the place where a fine entrance-hall ought to
be. In truth, there is no hall whatever to the house—nothing but a sort
of square landing-place, as you enter from the wide front door. A roomy
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- Wife's Objections and Domestic Inconveniences