Mrs.Midas Part 4 Flashcards
“So he had to move out”. We’d a caravan
•Mrs midas bluntly informs us how the consequences of her husbands greed had an effect on their relationship and lives
“in the wilds, in a glade of its own. I drove him up under the cover of dark”
•she takes her husband into hiding
And then i came home, “the woman who married the fool who wished for gold”
•clearly blaming him for his greed and selfishness
“parking the car a good way off, then walking.”
•she would keep a safe distance away when she visited incase she was affected by his gift
“Golden trout on the grass. One day, a hare hung from a larch, a beautiful lemon mistake. And then his footprints glistening next to the rivers path.
•she continue to present images of solitary, distanced, detached, separate lifestyle as she describes the single golden items she discovers on her walk form the parked car to husband
“He was thin delirious; hearing, he said, the music of pan from the woods. Listen. That was the last straw
- she describes him in a sorrowful state
- this associates him to another greek god, this tome the isolated figure of pan, the god of shepherds and flocks, and we note the irony that a gift so equated with wealth and prosperity should result in such emotional poverty
“What gets me now is not idiocy or greed but lack of thought for me. Pure selfishness” i sold
•the final stanza stresses mrs midas’ anger at her husband pure selfishness in making a wish that has not only affected him but deprived them of both of physical relationship and his wife of her chance to have her dream baby
“I miss most even now, his warm hand in my skin, his touch
•the repetition of the word ‘hands’ emphasises too that his touch, once a potent symbol of their intimacy, is now lost forever and reminds us that, unlike human skin to skin contact, gold is cold and hard
