Letter To A Woman Analysis

This letter was written by a young women who was telling the story of her life with and without her husband. In the beginning say says how her “hair was still cut straight across my forehead.” I am not an expert in history but by analyzing this text I can assume with the past tense used and the not so formal hair stile this girl was young. Looking farther into the letter she explains, when she was fourteen she married her Lord. This indicates the first part of the letter she was younger than fourteen. But who would be her Lord. This name is capitalized meaning he is important, possibly someone or something she worships, like a god. She could be becoming a nun or some sort of follower of her god. Even though this could be a god, this could also be a man who she worships. After announcing her marriage at fourteen, she goes on to say at fifteen she stopped scowling and asking that her dust be mined with the one she married. How she worded this with using the word, yours, this indicates how this letter was written two her husband. Why might she be writing him a letter? Is he gone? Also why was she scowling when she was married to him. This could indicate arguments between them and him not wanting to be with …show more content…
He was the only person mentioned in this letter creating an obsession or lust over this man. She goes on to say, “the monkeys make sorrowful noise overhead.” This is a transition period, where she stops using past tense and starts using present tense. Leaving us to believe she is sixteen. Now her true feelings come out with her using symbols such as paired butterflies to express her urning for her husband one to come home. She also uses these butterflies to show time passing with the butterflies already yellow with August. I am unsure what yellow has to do with August, but this could indicate some sort of mating season, which would imply the girl missing her husband and him satisfying her sexual