In the short story, Mrs.Drover flashes back to her final moments with her former lover. From these moments she can not remember what her lovers face looked like only the spectral glitters in place of his eyes. She also remembers his presence and a cut that was left on her hand from their last encounter when she pressed her hand onto one of the buttons of his shirt. The ballad contains keywords that symbolizes the devil. “They had not sailed a league, a league,A league but barely three,Until she espied his cloven foot,And she wept right bitterly.”(Ballad 1025) A cloven foot is one of the many representations of the devil himself, such as the pitch fork, or the
In the short story, Mrs.Drover flashes back to her final moments with her former lover. From these moments she can not remember what her lovers face looked like only the spectral glitters in place of his eyes. She also remembers his presence and a cut that was left on her hand from their last encounter when she pressed her hand onto one of the buttons of his shirt. The ballad contains keywords that symbolizes the devil. “They had not sailed a league, a league,A league but barely three,Until she espied his cloven foot,And she wept right bitterly.”(Ballad 1025) A cloven foot is one of the many representations of the devil himself, such as the pitch fork, or the