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- # Wife's initial complaints and the secret closet theory
## Overview
This segment, titled "Wife's initial complaints and the secret closet theory," is a section of the short story "[I and My Chimney](arke:01KG8AJ72QDX8N8STJ3550X2NW)". It is extracted from lines 1112 to 1119 of the text file "[i_and_my_chimney.txt](arke:01KG89J1H4TA19251AXAPE3ZWC)". This segment is part of the "[Melville Complete Works](arke:01KG89HMDZKNY753EZE1CJ8HZW)" collection.
## Context
This segment appears in the latter portion of the short story "[I and My Chimney](arke:01KG8AJ72QDX8N8STJ3550X2NW)". It follows the segment "[Wife's Continued Campaign](arke:01KG8AJNYAZCM6K81JTNXYFFXE)" and precedes "[Shift in attack to unsightliness and room gain](arke:01KG8AJNY37Z6KXJ9ZG5531NWJ)". The surrounding segments describe the narrator's wife's attempts to find a secret closet within the chimney and her subsequent shift in tactics to focus on the chimney's unsightliness.
## Contents
The segment depicts the narrator's wife voicing her suspicions about a secret closet hidden within the chimney. She taps on the wall, claiming to hear a hollow sound, and declares the existence of the hidden space. The narrator dismisses her claims, attributing the hollow sound to the chimney's structure. The segment concludes with the narrator noting that his daughters side with their mother in this endeavor.
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- “How hollow it sounds,” she will hollowly cry. “Yes, I declare,” with
an emphatic tap, “there is a secret closet here. Here, in this very
spot. Hark! How hollow!”
“Psha! wife, of course it is hollow. Who ever heard of a solid
chimney?” But nothing avails. And my daughters take after, not me, but
their mother.
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- Wife's initial complaints and the secret closet theory