mrs midas

Question 1

late September

Answer 1

autumn is associated with things coming to an end as leaves start falling off the tree and naturally dying out for the coming of winter
foreshawas the relationship going downhill.

Question 2

unwind

Answer 2

suggests relaxing relieving tension of the atmosphere where she chilling and just relaxing herself but also foreshadows the unwinding of the marriage when mrs Midas finds out about her husbands selfish wish

Question 3

steamy breathe

Answer 3

personification
suggest the sexual intimacy and romance in the kitchen it establishes the family home at the beginning of the poem as a romantic and sexual place

Question 4

snapping

Answer 4

word choice suggest something breaking apart which foreshadows the relationship of mrs Midas and her husband
harsh sound destroy the peaceful atmosphere
first introduced when he’s destroying something natural with his gifts, hints that his love will be destroyed by his gift

Question 5

visibility poor

Answer 5

suggests how hard it is to see and how mrs Midas is still in denial of what she think she’s seeing she’s wanting to have. a few more looks to confirm

Question 6

the dark of the ground seems to drink ups the light of the sky

Answer 6

growing darkness of the garden and foreshawdos what mr Midas has wished for
just as someone will will drink out from a bottle till there is nothing left so to the shadows in the garden and taking ver the lights and brightness in the garden

Question 7

lightbulb

Answer 7

suggests something so bright and golden which hints the wish of mr Midas but all a light bulb bing lifeless and fragile which suggests the relationship status caused by mr Midas single handedly by himself
fragment of sentence also hints the shock of mrs Midas

Question 8

I thought to myself… is he putting fairy lights on the tree

Answer 8

rhetorical question emphasises her confusion as she is so confused and suggests her rejection if what she thinks she is seeing and how she clings onto the hope of normality

Question 9

he came into the house.

Answer 9

fragmented sentences contrasting from the long sentences before suggest that the relationship isn’t as perfect as it is before snd the attuned from mrs Midas to mr Midas is changing

Question 10

he sat in that chair like a king on a burins3d throne

Answer 10

suggest how mr Midas is still living in his dream thinking he has got all the power and wealth from his wish being granted.

Question 11

strange, wild and vain

Answer 11

list of facial expression
empashes the amount of unattractive qualities mrs Midas now see in mr Midas, and how mr Midas is arrogant and selfish and still so proud of his wish and think he’s superior

Question 12

he started to laugh.

Answer 12

short abutted sentences
suggests how little mr Midas cares about mrs Midas as he answers questions asked by his wife in horror by responding with a cruel laugh as he still thinks its funny and something to joke abut

Question 13

I served up the meal

Answer 13

mrs midas attempt of retiring to normality trying to ignore all the changes happened around her and serve up dinner to her husband

Question 14

soitting out the teeth of the rich

Answer 14

suggest the discovery of this horrible reality that mrs Midas has to face as the one who she loved has chosen gold over her blindly and now even given up his ability to even eat and fuel his own body because of greed

Question 15

his spoon…forks

Answer 15

list of objects he has touched and turned into gold
emphasises the large amount of objects he has turned into gold and completely wiping away mrs Midas hope of all these being false and he proves to her by tuning all of them gold

Question 16

shaking hands

Answer 16

suggest fear and horror mrs Midas feel as she feels like she no longer understand the one who she loves but also fears that he will use his power on her and ending her life

Question 17

bone dry wine

Answer 17

suggest the idea of death which foreshadow the outcome of mrmidss wishes as he blindly follow his greed and how he would pay a high price for it

Question 18

scream

Answer 18

suggets complete horror and fear
immediate tone switch to establish the fact that there’s no tuning back of the relationship as mrs Midas now cannot hide the fact that she’s terrified of him

Question 19

I made… himself.

Answer 19

the distance in the room suggest the distance they now currently have between each other, there is a barrier developed and his hands are demanded to be kept to himself which shows mrs Midas rejection for his touch and affection.

Question 20

it fees no one.

Answer 20

simple sentence
suggests how mrs Midas blames her husbands and it is clear that it is common sense where gold cannot feed anyone and how stupid it is for mr Midas to make such a selfish wish

Question 21

separate beds.

Answer 21

suggets Tye barrier between mrs Midas and her husbands and they are no longer allowed t share a bed and the change in the relationship. at the loss of intimacy

Question 22

presents

Answer 22

just as how we are excited to [en gifts so too mrs Midas and mr Midas being so eager to undress each other and make love

Question 23

junk food

Answer 23

as much as junk food are tasty as first hut is damding to health in a long term suggest how the love they first had was so good but now after realising how selfish her hsudnad is the relationship was no longer healthy for her

Question 24

honeyed

Answer 24

suggest golden, stickiness and clingy
explored how mrs Midas is now scared of the touch of her husband and what it will tun=rn her into

Question 25

work of art

Answer 25

suggest that she will turn into something beautiful but lifeless if she decide to remain with him

Question 26

heart of gold,

Answer 26

suggest that heart of mr Midas as not only being filled with greed but also cold as his first thing when he could have had his wish granted was to wish for wealth but nothing in consideration off mr Midas

Question 27

pupils like flies

Answer 27

suggesting the dream of what mrs Midas has of waning a child has died as files usually flies around corpse with is lifeless explores how mr Midas selfless hs killed the child of what mrs Midas has dreamt of even before she was able to try for one

Question 28

burned

Answer 28

suggests being destroyed and tuning to ashes , burning pain and agony of the loss

Question 29

so we had to move out.

Answer 29

short sentence
empathises that it was no longer a discussion and she is demanding that he now needed to be moved out of their home where it was associated with the start of their romance

Question 30

the cover of dark

Answer 30

suggest the need that mrs Midas feel to hide her husband as she feels shameful to have married someone who’s so selfish and greedy

Question 31

fool

Answer 31

suggest stupidity
a blame tone of how mr Midas was so selfish that he was bonded by the greed and b=never put on consideration for his wife and the child she has dreamed about

Question 32

beautiful lemon mistake

Answer 32

suggest that the mistake of her husband having those wishes granted might be beautiful but it is filled with bitterness as she has to step away from a lot of thing she could have received from a loving husband In a marriage b

Question 33

this was the last straw

Answer 33

short abrupt sentence
suggests how mrs Midas is fed up with her husband stupidity and how hr still thinks he’s done no wrong bc of his arrogance

Question 34

pure selfiness

Answer 34

emphasises the blame of tone
the romance and love has been replaced by how selfless mr Midas iOS and emphases the theme

Question 35

his hands…his touch

Answer 35

emphasises the large amount of affection she would have received as a wife in a mraaige but now it has all been taken away due to the selfies of her husband and his greed