july 16

After reading "The Revolt of a mother" by Mary Wilkins, I found many things amusing and interesting. One passage in particular was, "However deep a resentment she might be forced to hold against her husband , she would never fail in sedulous attention to his wants."
I thought that ths was interesting because it shows at the beginning of the story how she seems so frustrated, yet so powerless because she is only a woman. She continues to do her wifely and motherly duties to the best of her abilities even though she is furious. I think that later on this becomes importatn becasue when she finally makes a stand for what she wants even though she is doing something that can make her husband angry she holds steady adn continues making dinner etc. i think that this actually played into her favor of manipulation.

Trifels is a story i have read once or twice in other classes a while ago. there are many things that stand out in the story such as, "I'd hate to have men comming into my kitchen, snooping around and criticising." This is interesting because although its basic meanign is true for most women, the deeper meaning which connects to the whole story is much more important. Teh kitchen is associtated with women. and it return it becomes the one place a woman had to claim as their own. Fro men to come into it the way they did, is like trespassing on something personal and sacred.

"So standing in a platter of ice/ outside a Catholic dance hall/ you took thier collars/ in your fine chilled hands/ an lied your age to adulthood." i thought this passage from Forche's poem "As Children Together" was interesting because it reminds me of many young girls wanting to be older and pretending that they are. This type of behavior sometimes led to bigger problems for these girls which is the feeling i got from the poem. ij felt htat that girl wanted her soldier so badly that she did anything without thinking about what more there is.