The door through which you were shoved out into the light was self-loathing and terror.
Could "the light" have something to do with religion?
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If I had managed to come out to my mother, she would have blamed not me, but herself.
He is trying to justify why he didn't come out to his mother because he believes she would have blamed herself.
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genteel
polite, refined, or respectable
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or not. Or not. Or not. Or not. Or not
Why does he repeat "or not" so many time?
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For each gay kid whose adolescence was America in the forties or fifties the primary, the crucial scenario forever is coming out— or not.
I felt as though the narrator is saying that in the 40's it was a harder time to be gay.
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But lie to yourself, what you will lose is yourself.
How does one lie to themselves?
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Everybody already knows everything so you can lie to them.
I feel that he basically saying that people know your lying, yet they are happy with the lie itself because they are afraid of the truth.
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Then you turn into them.
who is them?
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Lie to yourself about this and you will forever lie about everything.
why does he choose to start the poem about lying?
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How they don’t have to go in at quarter to nine.
This part of the poem can basically refer to the limitations placed on women and once again Im coming right back to the "Declaration of Sentiments" where women were expected to be a certain way. She wants to step out of the "norm". I also believe her parents expect her to be a certain way or to present herself properly because of her wealth. Therefore, she has curfews.
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But I say it’s fine.
She repeats this twice in the poem. Is the narrator trying to relay a message?
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And strut down the streets with paint on my face.
Only part i really didn't understand.
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That George’ll be taken to Jail soon or late (On account of last winter he sold our back gate).
Judgement based on a past mistake
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My mother sneers
She is mocking her child in a way. She probably thinks that the narrator is naive.
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My mother, she tells me that Johnnie Mae Will grow up to be a bad woman. That George’ll be taken to Jail soon or late
Is she looking down on the outsiders? Could this be referring to stereotypes?
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They do some wonderful things.
Is she referring to her perception of life in this so called "backyard"?
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I want to go in the back yard now
She wants to step out of her comfort zone.
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I’ve stayed in the front yard all my life. I want a peek at the back Where it’s rough and untended and hungry weed grows. A girl gets sick of a rose.
Is the character referring to the fact that her life is simple and boring. It seems like she's looking for an adventure or even something different perhaps.
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- Sep 2016
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There interposed a Fly
The fly basically came in between the narrator and the light. The narrator was ready to sign away all memories and to get read to see this so called "King" but the fly came and changed her experience.
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What portion of me be Assignable
Is she saying that what she owns is really not hers ?
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Windows failed
her vision failed perhaps?
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Keepsakes
it is the narrators memory. Perhaps shes saying the memories that she has no one else can ever have. It is a part of her and its all about HER perspective.
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I heard a Fly buzz – when I died –
the narrator of the story is the "Dead ". We don't ever get a first person perspective of the person who has died but rather the people who surround the dead person
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