Prompt 3
There are many events that seemed to make the duchess “disappear”.
Some are trivial while some are obvious. She seems to have been a happy and
cheerful girl, but he was always jealous because of the attention she gave to
others. “She had a heart to soon made glad. Too easily impressed. She liked
whatever.” I think all this kindness to others hurt his feelings. I can see why
he was jealous, but he overreacted. He seemed to become overalls obsessed with
her, like stalking her. He would see whatever she did and whoever she talked
to. He became too selfish, and owning of her. “I gave commands; then the
smiling stopped all together.” He seemed to get crazier throughout the poem. Becoming
more relentless and jealous. He starts off saying how great she is to how she
wanted to end her happiness. It’s apparent that he is a jealous, selfish, evil,
and terrible husband/person.
I like how you used the term "disappeared" once the poem implied the death of the dukes wife.
ReplyDeleteYou make a good point by saying that he overreacted, and that he seems to have been stalking her, but why did she want to end her own happiness?
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