“So I have worked hard./ not good enough”(28-29). After giving all her effort to excel in college to please her parents, she gives up. She decides the way out of all the criticism is to free herself. The way she describes freeing herself was by the use of imagery of a bird flying off an edge, her being the bird. “This air will not hold me, / the snow burdens my crippled wings,” (44-45). She is damaged from working hard to meet her parent’s high expectations, and there is nothing to hold her back from her decision of committing suicide. She copes with the criticism from her parents through death, and becomes
“So I have worked hard./ not good enough”(28-29). After giving all her effort to excel in college to please her parents, she gives up. She decides the way out of all the criticism is to free herself. The way she describes freeing herself was by the use of imagery of a bird flying off an edge, her being the bird. “This air will not hold me, / the snow burdens my crippled wings,” (44-45). She is damaged from working hard to meet her parent’s high expectations, and there is nothing to hold her back from her decision of committing suicide. She copes with the criticism from her parents through death, and becomes