She is trying to change she knows she has a problem and she wants ot be forgiven so she can start over fresh

She says this so she doesn't attempt to steal his wallet again

Seems like she is going to start up a sexual scene again

She doesn't want someone else to use her objects that she stole because they all mean something to her but she doesn't want anyone to know she steals things so she reluctantly allows him to use the bath salts

strange. He is obsessed with the bathtub

8 years younger than her real age

What does he mean when he says that?

She only says this because she knows that she is one of those people.

Typically most 35 year old women do have children at home, Sasha does not because she doesnt want to admit she is 35.

First time we see her admit she has a problem to somene other than Coz

She must take them a lot too calm her nerves if she knows this kind of information about them.

Alex is passionate about helping people. He is angry that he is the only person, other than she woman who got her wallet stolen that is upset about the situation.

Alex is trying to be the hero again

She wants to take this because she is freaking out about someone acusing her although the only person who knows she has the wallet is her

Sasha

She is relaxing because the woman is not directly acusing someone of stealing it. She thinks maybe she could have just lost it.

Sasha is feeling guilty

Alex is a stand up guy. He seems to care about others.

This woman is relatable and Sasha feels bad for taking the wallet from her because she looks like she might be someone in need of having the wallet. She's not what Sasha expected her to be

Sasha pictured the woman she stole the wallet from to be someone who had a lot of money and didn't need the wallet.

She is only doing it for her own protection, Coz doesn't need protection. He is a therapist, he is there to help her. She is just afraid to open up to him

Steriotypical therapist question, haha

Because the screwdriver was now her screwdriver so she doesn't have a need for it anymore.

She is addicted to stealing from others. She has become so good at it that she doesn't even need to try to be quiet and descreet because it just comes natural to her. She thinks it is made for her because she doesn't realize how strong her addiction is.

Sasha is trying to resist the screwdriver the same way a child has to resist taking a candy such as a lolipop, no matter how much they want it. She wants the screwdriver as badly as a 4 year old would want a lolipop.

She didn't always have a stealing problem, she had a life before it. I wonder what made her start stealing in he first place

She loves to steal

Is this possibly implying she is a liar? Or a secretive person?

I was right, they are on a date

In a non-sexist way this imples that Alex is her significant other because it is steriotypical for a boy to pay the bill when on a date

What does this mean

MAke it a game for her, like a child

Sasha doesn't want to admit that she would be stealing, even though she knows that she is

He is the therapist

the moral of the story is that mankind is not perfect and we cannot play god.

to turn violent

They realize that he is a genious but his death is not greived nor is it celebrated. People are indifferent

not humanistic in the slightest. Animal like

Unusal and unrecognizable. Not what it was expected to be

like a robot of sorts. it is an invention or a device that is supposed to be able to do what human beings can do

He wanted to do it himself. To build it for him and let it mean something to him because he put the effort and time and work into it. Its more meaningful this way

this means an opinion that is made on information that has not been fully collected. Could also be an assumption

what does this mean?

his disturbed imagination

alliteration

A cloaked object cannot change it attitude. Objects have no attitude, this is personification.

this means long before, some people might know that but I honestly did not so in case anyone else is like me and doesn't know what it means, here you go.

The bell tower is a big deal for the captial. It is an important monument being built and they are celebrating it. They ar excited

this means to put off giving a punishment

What is a ponderous ladle?

Why is this capitalized?

a mason is a person who builds with stone...mason also means strong. The bell tower is strong.

this is referring to history

A fresco is a painting that is wet and then dries. Once it is dried it becomes a part of whatever surface it was painted onto and cannot be erased. It works for this becaus it is saying the capital was created and then it was perminantly there. Paintings are beautiful. The capital used to be beautiful.

completely random, but this is my new car's name.

I got confused about this but then I realized this word is a slang we use in English that means like "Okay, you got it?" Like almost as a question. It is hard to recognize from the way it is spelled here. It is pronounced, "Kapeesh"

He is a critic for a living so although the ceiling might not be that terrrible, he has to be critical of it because that's the way his brain works. Also it is interesting that he has a gun under his chin and he is not thinking about how scared he is to die. Instead he is worried about the ceiling art being ugly

alliteration

Why is hefty capitalized?

A growing hatred because he is annoyed that it is taking so long

This is an interesting word choice that Tobias Wolff used. The writing is more sophisticated and the word stupid seems immature of childish.

this means to be cruel

This could be foreshadowing for what when Ander's gets shot

appropriate title for the story

connotations about college students who don't care about their grades and just want to party

the greek systems, sororities and frats

when spring break is over everyone goes home

I think the speaker is someone who was never popular in high school or college and never got to experience spring break.

type of ice cream

meaningless sex. They only want to have sex with people because they want to feel good. Human beings have the ability to have sex and feel connected to someone as opposed to animals who have sex because its their natural instinct

you would see an animal in an exhibit. Literally the line is saying the guys are showing off their bodies but there is a zoo animal connotation

this refers to the boys being drunk, which is appropriate because they are on spring break and boys get drunk during spring break

not only describing the types of shades on people's faces but when pople ar eon spring break they are usually looking to "hook up" with someone or find love for the week. The heart shape sunglasses are possibly referring to people who are looking for sex and love

sunscreen on their noses

people in bathing suits. Good looking people, someone you would want to look at

The father of one of the children maybe? I'm not sure what to take of this line...if someone else understands what this means please explain it?

I believe this is referring to a baptism or some other kind of religious ceremony that takes place at a church

Other nice things people say to her to be polite but don't actually mean

her is a mother or a nanny.

Just like i said before, in the Summer there is lfie. Birds are always abundant in the Summer time because it is warm. She has a lot of attention and a lot of lovers and then they leave her

bird sing, her lovers are being referenced to birds again like they were in the lines before.

When she says they sing to her, she means they had sex with her

In the winter bird fly south. They go in big groups and the migration happens all during Fall but by Winter, they are all gone.

The speaker is comparing the people in their life as birds in the Winter flying South. No one ever stays, they always leave the speaker.

branches of a tree.

Winter's connotation is depressing and lonely. everything in nature dies. Trees loose their leaves. The tree is alone because all of the animals have gone into hiding, the leaves are gone.

The speaker is using the tree to describe themself. They feel like a tree in the winter, all alone.

people she has slept with that meant nothing to her. Lads implies that they are younger men. When someone says "lad" is usually means younger male

glass is fragile and easily breakable.

when the lover tells the speaker a lie, the speaker will fight them back and ask them if they lied about their vows

The connotation of loveliest is that it is associated with women. This implies that the speaker is a dainty girl

What the speaker means by this is tell me your worst lie you ever told me. The speakers lover told lies with such grace that the speaker is calling them lovely because the lover has been getting away with it for so long.

This means as time goes on

This is repeated from the title

They were in a relationship and something must have gone wrong. The speaker is angry and wants the relationship to end

This implies that the speaker is talking to someone they are close to or were once close to

This is my favorite line of the poem. This simile does so many things and this is a strong comparison. It is a strong way to end the poem

not only is the speaker shocked that the daughter can ride the bike all by herself, but also shocked that their daughter is able to do something on their own without the help of the speaker.

literally speaker is running alongside their daughter but figuratively speaker is trying to stay in sync with daughter to help her through life

literally the girl is riding the bike away faster and faster, figuratively she is growing away from her father and becoming less dependent on him.

The speaker wants his daughter to need him and he keeps waiting for her to fall down so he can go to her rescue

This is saying two things. The deer are hungry and risen loaves is referring to bread. Deer do not eat bread but bread is a food that is eaten when people are hungry. It is also comparing the snow to a risen loaf of bread. Bread rises slowly, just like when it is snowing, it piles up slowly.

Hudson river

What is the speaker referring to when they say this. There is no prior reference to a bird.

speaker is of Spanish decent

dark and morbid

a person's name?

What does this mean "imitating spring"? I think it has to do with parrots being colorful and spring being colorful but I'm still confused on it

The children are grinding their teeth. They are not actually turning into arrow heads but they are becoming deformed from the gnawing

an ugly shade of green, parrots are supposed to have bright pretty colors on their feathers.

All of these things are references to plants. Plants need to be planted, nourished and harvested (if they're agriculture). Plants are a reference to life.

alliteration, a ponderosa pine has prickly needles. The speaker started the stanza talking about nice things like the orchard. Those are full of life and sweetness. Then it transitions to a pine tree, which is alive all year round but they're not pretty and people do not think of them as bright an cheery

the denotation of a hollow is a hole with empty space inside. The connotation for this poem is show an empty place that no one is going to make any assumptions about who the speaker is supposed to be. The speaker wants to not be associated with the word what men want and all of the expectations that come along with what a man wants

I think this is implying that the speaker wants to start over fresh. Maybe the speaker has made some mistakes in the past and doesn't want to go anywhere near those mistakes that they made because they don't want to be reminded of them. Show me an orchard implies that the speaker wants to be shown a fresh beginning. When the speaker says "where i have not slept it implies that maybe the speaker has been sleeping around with people and they are not proud of it so they want to go places where people don't know the speaker slept with who they slept with.

orchards are full of life. when I think of an orchard I think of an apple orchard for the most part. But orchards are full of all types of fruit trees. Trees are full of life and fruit is typically sweet. This line's connotation is basically show me a place where life is sweet.

i like how dazzle and puzzle are a slant rhyme

repeats at the start of every stanza for stanzas 1-3

Referring to the antiques. Each antique has its own history

I think that the speaker in the poem thinks that if he had paid more attention to his daughter when they went to these sales instead of all of the junk and antiques, maybe she would still continue to come with him on Sundays. The daughter just wanted to go to the junk sales to spend time with her father and instead of bonding with her the father was more interested in the antiques.

The styles of what?

Their Sunday traditions of going to junk sales and antique fairs. Refer to the first stanza of the poem. At first I was confused as to what dry sundays were and then I reread the poem and realized it referred to the first stanza. The daughter used to go with him every Sunday and now she doesn't because she is getting older

This is explaining that the daughter has redish-oranged colored hair

why is this said twice?

Is the boy saying/thinking this to the rhythm of the seconds ticking?

These lines are talking about how one day you're a kid and you don't even know what time is but then little by little you grow up and you start to run out of time. Before you know it, your time is almost up and you spend your days watching the time run out.

gaze and glaze seems like an unintentional rhyme but it isn't and the placement of it is great

Poem must be about a child, plastic armies refers to a toy children often play with.

What does this mean?

When the speaker says "she", they are referring to the mosquito.

I like how up front and honest the speaker of the poem is about the reader not thinking too deeply about the poem. Before I read this line I was trying to analyze the poem as if it was a romantic story. The author does not want this so they found an appropriate place to put an end to the over analyzing of the reader.

What is a timbre?

I like that the speaker of the poem tries to relate to the reader. He is right, the majority of human beings would kill a mosquito in an instant. I felt more connected to the speaker and understood their feelings more.

What does she mean that she will be deaf by the time her children need help? Does she mean she will be too old to understand them and she will lose her hearing? Or does she mean that she will not be able to understand any English at all and he children will have lost all of their memory of Spanish words so they will not be able to communicate?

If the husband is frowning upon the wife trying to learn English, he sounds like he may be controlling or want to be the dominant one in the relationship.

I took Spanish last semester and this saying is in Spanish.

It translates in English to "Let's go ask Mama for candy. Let's go."

The man could have been a handy man. It takes some kind of skill to build a walkway

Fiddling has two meanings here. The first one is fiddling with his emotions in the literal sense. In other words, "messing with his emotions". The other meaning is a musical reference. There is an instrument called a fiddle. The lines before this line reference to music so it would make sense that when it says "fiddling with emotion", it is literally fiddling with the man's emotions and it is also referring to the fiddle.

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Why does he think that that everything and anything is more important than what he enjoys to do?

This means: "The quality or state of being firm or strong in structure"

source: https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/solidity

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