By: Milvi Mae I. Candari
Instructor
ASU-SRRDM
The Return by Timothy Montes reminds me of the story written by a Korean writer Kim Yong Ik entitled After Seventeen Years.
In the story "The Return", the wife returns home after 20 years not to reconcile with her husband but to ask for her freedom. On the other hand, the story "After Seventeen Years" is about a husband's return not for the reason to be reconciled but to attend his son's wedding but to his surprise, the wife is willing to accept him.
It is known that the Philippines is the only Christian nation in Asia but time changed everything. Now, Filipino women are more liberated, headstrong, and determined to pursue what they want in life which could make them happier and more secure. Korean women are still conservative in their views about marriage. They are willing to endure the pain, humiliation and hardship in order to preserve the sanctity of marriage.
Even Filipino writers nowadays have different views about marriage, especially if it turned out to be a mess. This simply means, Filipinos have been changed by time
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