Throughout the novel, these literary devices identify the women’s inner struggles, their demons that they constantly live with. For Lily it is her insecurity, May deals with her inability to cope with suffering, and Deborah suffered from depression.
In Sue Monk Kidd’s, The Secret Life of Bees, the author indirectly characterizes Lily as insecure to display Lily's longing to fit in, especially when it comes to femininity. For example, this insecurity is revealed when Lily looks at a picture of her deceased mother, Deborah. As an illustration, Lily expresses the following; “I laid the photograph beside my eighth-grade picture and examined every possible similarity. She was more or less missing a chin, too, but even so, she was above-average pretty, which offered me some genuine hope for my future” (13). Here, it is revealed that Lily fears she lacks all the aspects of what it means to be beautiful and as a result, she is deeply insecure about this notion. Furthermore, she tries to find every possible similarity between herself and her mother, the mother which she believes she killed. In summary, Lily finds relief when she discovers that she and her mother share the same chin and that her mother was “above-average pretty,” …show more content…
This allusion is seen in the following excerpt: “O Rose, thou art sick! The invisible worm, that flies in the night, In the howling storm, Has found out thy bed of crimson joy, And his dark secret love Does thy life destroy” (330). Furthermore, Deborah was depressed and represents the sick rose in Blake’s poem. Additionally, Deborah’s life was filled with sorrow and her depression was represented as the invisible worm that flies in the night. On the whole, Deborah was the sick rose and William Blake’s poem describes how her life was overrun as a result of the invasive worm that is
In Sue Monk Kidd’s, The Secret Life of Bees, the author indirectly characterizes Lily as insecure to display Lily's longing to fit in, especially when it comes to femininity. For example, this insecurity is revealed when Lily looks at a picture of her deceased mother, Deborah. As an illustration, Lily expresses the following; “I laid the photograph beside my eighth-grade picture and examined every possible similarity. She was more or less missing a chin, too, but even so, she was above-average pretty, which offered me some genuine hope for my future” (13). Here, it is revealed that Lily fears she lacks all the aspects of what it means to be beautiful and as a result, she is deeply insecure about this notion. Furthermore, she tries to find every possible similarity between herself and her mother, the mother which she believes she killed. In summary, Lily finds relief when she discovers that she and her mother share the same chin and that her mother was “above-average pretty,” …show more content…
This allusion is seen in the following excerpt: “O Rose, thou art sick! The invisible worm, that flies in the night, In the howling storm, Has found out thy bed of crimson joy, And his dark secret love Does thy life destroy” (330). Furthermore, Deborah was depressed and represents the sick rose in Blake’s poem. Additionally, Deborah’s life was filled with sorrow and her depression was represented as the invisible worm that flies in the night. On the whole, Deborah was the sick rose and William Blake’s poem describes how her life was overrun as a result of the invasive worm that is