Summary of chapter the snake and the mirror???plzzzzzz
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In this poem, a mirror describes its existence and its owner, who grows older as the mirror watches.
The narrator, mirror describes itself as “silver and exact.” It forms no judgments, instead merely swallowing what it sees and reflecting that image back without any alteration. The mirror is not cruel, “only truthful.” It considers itself a four-cornered eye of a god, which sees everything for what it is.
The mirror says it spends most of its time looking at a pink wall across from it. It is as if the wall has become part of it—its heart. The image of the wall is interrupted only by people who enter to look at themselves and the darkness that comes with night.
In the second, a mirror as reflecting surface continues that it reflects anything ‘just as it is’. The reflection is precise and accurate. It provides an exact picture of the thing in front of it. Feelings can often influence how we perceive a certain object or person. Often such a perception may be inaccurate or untrue. But a mirror does not allow its reflections to be clouded by feelings such as love or dislike. Hence its reflections are ‘unmisted’ and dispassionate.
Because of this untrue nature, the woman cries and wrings her hands. Nevertheless, she cannot refrain from visiting the mirror over and over again, every morning. Over the years, the woman has “drowned a young girl” in the mirror, and now sees in her reflection an old woman growing older by the day. This old woman rises toward her out of the mirror like “a terrible fish.”
There is a poor doctor who thinks he is handsome and boasts about his beauty.
He wanted a wife who should be slim so that in the time when he made silly mistakes he had the opportunity to the run and his wife could not be able to catch him.
One day he was in his room complimenting himself through the mirror he heard a thud from the attic, he ignored for a while and thought it might be the mouse, and again came the sound.
He saw a snake sitting on his shoulder and he became white as ice.
He started praying to god for his sins, started to tell that he was ugly and didnt had a clean heart. He knew that if he would move a little the snake might fang him and prayed until the snake got down to his shoulder.
As soon as the snake got down, the snake started to look himself in the mirror and as if he was admiring himself, the doc ran as fast as he could and got to his friends house