Shiloh

 Norma Jean is a simple wife of a simple man.  She seems to have accepted her life with him away.  The writer carefully peels each layer of their personalities like an onion peel.  She slowly gains a sense of her self through self improvement activities and we catch him losing his confidence as a man and a provider.  These layers of each character build the story up as each flaw becomes visible.  The characters are shown to be desperate but vunerable by their fears and the tragic realities which their lives have dealt them.