Adrienne Riche - Living in Sin Flashcards
1
Q
conveys her idillic views
A
no dust upon the furniture of love
2
Q
husbands indifference contrasts with her keen awareness
A
‘shrugged at the mirror, rubbed his beard, went out for cigarettes’
3
Q
the neglected housework represent the husbands apathy
A
'’the scraps of last nights cheese’
4
Q
symbolises the incessant routine and dreary everyday life.
How inevitable it will be for them to separate
A
‘a relentless milkman up the stairs’
5
Q
sudden change
A
by evening she was back in love again
though not so wholly
