Mrs Midas Flashcards
The kitchen filled with the smell of itself, relaxed, it’s steamy breath…
Personification of kitchen makes it seem alive
Tells about relationship - fulfilling
Steamy suggests warmth and comfort (relationship)
Domestic scene
Mundane domestic imagery
Sense of going through the motions
Good relationship
So then I opened one, then with my fingers wiped the others glass like a brow
Wiping the glass
Intimacy between couple
Close relationship
Comforting atmosphere
Snapping a twig
Atmosphere change, abrupt and sudden
Sense of alarm
Snapping has connotations of violence and destruction
Destroys peaceful relaxed atmosphere in 1st stanza
I thought to myself, is he putting fairy lights in the tree?
Confusion
Questions what she is seeing
Could not make sense of situation
Delays moment- adds to humous
You know the mind
Direct address Conversational Adds to humour Makes reader feel as though she is talking to them Catches readers eye Relaxed
The look on his face was strange, wild, vain
Suggests midas' arrogance Power Mrs Midas beginning to resent her husband Irritated by his greed Relationship no longer feels loving Vain- insult to Midas
He toyed with his spoon, then mine
Cutlery into gold Ambition will soon make him suffer physically Situation funny Not acknowledged consequences Toying suggests child like behaviour Arrogance
It was then I started to scream
Seriousness of situation
Frightened
Atmosphere change, chatty to alarmed
Scream suggests how terrified she was
I locked the cat in the cellar. I moved the phone. The toilet I don’t mind
Humour Takes control Calmed down Reveals her priorities Her response to situation is funny Suggestion of Middle class privileges (toilet) Practical but sees advantages
Turning the spare room into the tomb of Tutankhamun
Tomb- cursed (similar to Midas’ situation
Everyone who entered had had a horrible death
Insight into what her house was turning into
Scared as everything transforms in front of her
You see, we were passionate then
Past tense Suggests they no longer share the passionate love they once had Sadness as they drift apart The strong intimate love is gone Elicits feelings of sadness
I miss most, even now, his hands, his warm hands on my skin, his touch
Sums up what she has lost
Reflects on memories, brings her sadness down to the loss of her husbands ability to physically touch her
No longer live in the same house - physical distance
Love fades away as well as it cannot be shown through “passionate lovemaking “
It was late September
Golden colours (autumn)
Also a time when things start to die - end of relationship?
Ambiguous mood- positive and negative connotations
Chatty atmosphere as she reflects
