"The Young Housewife" by William Carlos
Williams displays how young love is ruthless, carefree, selfish, stupid, and
inconsiderate. The poem, which is told
from a first-person point-of-view,
speaks of a young woman who goes behind her husband's back to cheat with
other men that are mentioned within the piece.
The ice-man and fish-man both have her way with her before she is
discovered by the narrator whom I presume might be her husband or private investigator. The last line of the poem says, "The
noiseless wheels of my car/rush with a crackling sound over/dried leaves as I
bow and pass smiling," which I take as a notification of discovery and
satisfaction for catching the frivolous female in the act of deception. As I stated earlier, the narrator may very
well be the husband or a P.I. tailored to trailing the deeds that the young
housewife commits, so as he "bows and smiles" as he passes her the
gratification may come from the idea that he caught her red-handed or it is the husband's gratification for finally
freeing himself of deception, lies, and false love.
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