Dorothy Parker's A Certain Lady

Parker really connected with her readers because she wrote what she knew, with a mind like hers, we expect Paker will look at society from a different perspective compare to the women of her time. She saw things for what they were and she never hid from the truth. However, she is not blind to her surrounding, as we see in the poem “A Certain Lady” through the poetess of the poem. A Certain Lady, as the title refers to the speaker, is certain lady who is in love with a man, yet the man is unable to see this, even as he goes around romancing other women. Dorothy Parker touches upon the myriad of emotions a woman has while she listens to a man she loves, talk about his conquests of women. The poem initially introduces how the poetess is a master of covering her feelings; she "plays" the eager listener, “Oh, I can smile for you, and tilt my head, And drink your rushing words with eager lips, And paint my mouth for you a fragrant red.”(Parker). …show more content…
It is clear that the speaker of the poem is much more clever than her male counterpart, or his ego is so large that it covers up the fact that he does not care about the feelings of the speaker. She is able to cover up her feelings and her true emotional state, “Oh, I can laugh and marvel, rapturous-eyed. And you laugh back, nor can you ever see The thousand little deaths my heart has died.” (Dorothy Parker). A post by Samantha Camino on Stucosam blogspot goes further in depth and even states, “Men are blind. They are oblivious to the body language or the subtle hints that women leave for them. Dorothy Parker touches on this fact in this poem. Despite his inability to see her love and unwillingness to stay with any one woman, the lady is still in love with him.”(Camino). This indeed is true and it's not just that she touches him, but the movement of her fingers "traces his