"Would it have been better you think if he had remained single, or if he had ended up with a wife that was not as great as the one that left him?" I think it w

"Would it have been better you think if he had remained single, or if he had ended up with a wife that was not as great as the one that left him?" I think it wouldn't have been mentionned in the story then. Still a valid, if rethoric, question.