Anne Dillard The Death Of A Moth Summary

Anne Dillard’s “The Death of a Moth” is a representation of her view on death. Dillard puts the reader in her shoes when she explains the settings and events that go on around her. Anne Dillard lived a single life with her two cats which were yellow and black. Dillard first opens the reader to a single crustacean, the spider, which she says is intelligent because he is somehow managing to survive as opposed to the bugs that become trapped in its spider’s web under the toilet. Eventually, Dillard comes across multiple corpses on the floor, however, one particular corpse catches her eye. This is the decaying corpse of a defeated moth which many people might not have distinguished, because it had its wings torn off and the body was disoriented. At that point, Anne Dillard takes us to a time in the past where she went camping and had the experience to see how moths look when they are in a decaying state. Furthermore, through vivid imagery and descriptive language, Anne Dillard’s “The Death of a Moth” proposes that death, on even such an insignificant lifeform, can be a beautiful event. Most noticeably, Dillard uses vivid imagery in her work “The Death of a Moth”. Particularly when she is describing a main event in her work; Dillard has your imaginations pop as she is describing these vivid moments. The first visual imagery that catches the …show more content…
Just on this occasion she oddly is fascinated of the spider that seems to still be living under her toilet because of the insects that keep running into the spider’s web. Then Dillard comes across the moth’s dead body that is completely striped of its wings which causes the author to think back to a time where she had seen a moth in this state once before when she went camping once summer. Taking the reader into a descriptive and vivid story of how such a small golden moth’s death turned into a remarkable