Analyzing Janus
Happy wife or confused adulteress, after getting through the first several paragraphs, I was sure I was reading a story about a woman who had some type of communication problem with her husband that was so severe it was turning her mad, hence the staying up late at night just staring at the bowl in the dim light of the night. She describes very well how this bowl has brought her a lot of luck with selling real estate and how it is her lucky charm now. The author goes as far as to say that "it was something she loved". In the midst of all these descriptions she say's that she has never mentioned her feelings toward the bowl to her husband before. Leaving me that much more perplexed as to why a woman or any person for that matter could have such strong feelings toward an inanimate object. However, after a couple pages of these intense descriptions of how lucky this bowl is to her and how much it means. She mentions a lover she has. Uh hah! She mentions how her lover purchased this bowl for her at some event for crafts. Now it started unfolding for me. The more I read the more she was describing her feelings, as being unexpressed and almost suppre
To restate everything mentioned above would be silly, but I will say that she possibly feels like she made the wrong decision that day the bowl was purchased for her. He then spoke to her for the last time and left her. Using it as a living bookmark in her book of life. I love the open ending, I can't tell whether or not she is feeling one way or another ". After finishing every paragraph I wanted to know what the next held. These are my interpretations of what the story is about. She was not ready to leave the life she had started with her husband, and her lover didn't feel appreciated enough and left out of her life for good. Now she is constantly reminded of a chapter she needed to experience. Is she a happy wife now or a confused adulteress? I am lead to believe that she can be either one and the author leaves it up to the reader to choose. This common looking bowl holds all of the words she wants to say to her old lover and houses all of the feelings she harbors from her husband. I know that you all have your own essay's to write, but if you wouldn't mind I would love to her your takes on it. The pivotal moment in time, at some insignificant craft fair, she had to make up her mind to go one way or another. " I am anxious to hear all of your interpretations on this story.
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