The Revolt of Mother
"She looked as immovable to him as one of the rocks in his pasture-land, bound to the earth with generations of blackberry wines."
This passage really stood out to me because it showed the strength of Sarah Penn. She is determined to get an answer, and is not going to back down until she does. I think it is extremely important to the rest of the story because it shows from the first scene that she is tired of the passivity she usually shows. This is seems very much like a women's writing because she does give this character so much power, something many men wouldn't do.
Trifles
"Oh, her fruit; it did freeze... She worried about that when it turned cold. She said the fire'd go out and her jars would break."
I found this image extremely amusing. I can picture the women's faces in this scene and they seem very concerned. It is interesting because we haven't really seen this concern the entire play, even though they are talking about a murder, until the discussion of broken jars of fruit. It seems as if these women just go through the motions of everyday life and have taken on the role of being a good wife so well, that that is all they really care about. It also shows their lack of sympathy that is very evident throughout the end of the play when they decide not to tell what they have realized about the murder.
As Children Together
"Jackets embroidered with dragons from the Far East. You kept the corks that had fired from bottles over their beds"
"So standing in a platter of ice outside a Catholic dance hall you took their collars in your fine chilled hands and lied your age to adulthood"
This is my favorite poem that we have read so far! I LOVED it! I can relate to it so much!! The two images I picked out stood out to me very much. The first one about the jackets with dragons reminded me of the scene in "Grease" when Marty is showing all the girls her new silk, dragon robe from one of her many military boyfriends. Her character in the movie seems almost identical to the girl described in this poem.
The second caught my attention because I attended an all girls catholic high school. The image of this girl outside a Catholic dance hall with a boy reminded me of all my high school dances. It also made me think about the stereotypes about "bad" Catholic girls. This seemed to go along with that. I think they are both important because at the beginning of the story the girl is not like that. She is an innocent, young girl who her best friend loves very much. But by the end she has turned into someone that the narrator can hardly relate to. It is very sad to me but at the same time I believe that the narrator is very glad she wasn't ever like her best friend in the ways she describes.
3 comments:
On "As Children Together": I really like the comparrison you made between the poem and the scene in Grease. I had read that in a totallly different tone, I first read it as men being aggressive and forceful in a sexual manor but when I read your blog I went back to read it again and it became so obvious that its not that at all. Good call!
in trifles i was confused about the women not feeling sympathy. i felt they showed a great dea of sympathy for mrs. wright and that is why they kept the evidence. the men could not understand their world or how their world made them feel. but i do understand how they connected to the broken jelly jars.
They show sympathy for Mrs. Wright, but not for the death of Mr. Wright. That was what I was referring to
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