Aunt Jennifer’s fingers fluttering through her wool Find even the ivory needle hard to pull.
The massive weight of Uncle’s wedding band Sits heavily upon Aunt Jennifer’s hand.
(a) What is Aunt Jennifer doing with her wool?
(b) Why does she find it difficult to pull her ivory needle?
(c) What does ―wedding band stand for?
(d) Describe the irony in the third line.
Answers
Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers
a) Aunt Jennifer is embroidering the tigers with her wool. She is a typical woman burdened heavily by marriage and the hard life associated with it. So in her free time she stitches and embroiders to dwell in a dream world of independence and freedom.
b) Her finding it difficult to pull her ivory needle is symbolic. Literally it means that she is weak and frail and is finding it difficult to pull the heavy ivory needle.
Symbolically it refers to her strenuous life after marriage.
c) Wedding band stands for the binding of marriage. Aunt Jennifer has had a very bad marriage. The marriage has overburdened her life and made her live a most strenuous and unhappy life.
d) The entire poem is ironic. The third line expresses the irony of her wedding. The wedding weighs heavily upon her which is symbolically expressed through the wedding band. The band sits heavily on her imprisoning her in a very difficult marriage.
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