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The war was the negative circumstance in the story. It was due to the war that Jim had to go away and thus he was separated from his wife. He may have been killed or taken as a prisoner of war and never returned to his wife. She waited for him for many years and then lost her senses. She was still waiting for her husband when the narrator met her.