Question
Do you sympathise with Aunt Jennifer. What is the attitude of the speaker towards Aunt Jennifer?
Solution
Aunt Jennifer is a lady who deserves everyone’s praise and sympathy. She is heavily loaded with her responsibilities of the married life. The speaker is liberating her only through the images, but in the end she says that her terrified hands after her death will lie in the grip of those hard experiences which had oppressed her during married life. The speaker shows sympathy but there is an atmosphere of tense in the end.
