# What Suffering and Endurance means in Perishable Goods

> Physical and emotional pain pervade the story—Adèle's captivity, Mansel's mortal wound, and the long, tense waits in hiding. The characters endure these trials without complaint, treating suffering as a test of character.

## Explanation

Physical and emotional pain pervade the story—Adèle's captivity, Mansel's mortal wound, and the long, tense waits in hiding. The characters endure these trials without complaint, treating suffering as a test of character.

Major Pleydell's anguish over his daughter's abduction and the lack of a ransom demand highlights the suffering endured by the family.

Mansel endures his mortal wound without complaint, and the narrator and Adèle endure the painful vigil.

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