2. I believe the theme is about a broke woman who is thinking whether to die or live on an unlucky floor number. The woman is struggling with demons in her past that relate to poverty, her Indian heritage and what choice will she make to die or live.
3. The poem meaning is based on what the woman is feeling and thinking. She has memories of her two husbands, her children and parents. The reader is let in on how the woman is hearing voices, struggles with racial discrimination and cries out for "lost beauty". Her life