carrying on small talk and watching the children play is torture. ‘Lesbos’ by Plath refer to play dates as sitting in a prison cell by saying, “It is all Hollywood, windowless, The fluorescent light wincing on and off like a terrible migraine, Coy paper stripes for doors---” (Plath, 33). Plath continues on to make a reference to her child as “schizophrenic,” because she is lying on the floor kicking like an unstrung puppet, turning colors in a panic (33). These references show the frustration and…
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