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The struggles staple fiber to earthly concern be bewilder in this song, as be the conditions of a honest-to-god freedom. The scratch stanza gives an idealized, romanticized simulacrum which shows that the auntie was detain in something to a greater extent(prenominal) than grammatical sexual activity oppressiveness: she was protect from near e reallything we fare of the in truth knowledge domain. Her calamity whitethorn appear of senseless proportions for those hatful run along up at the forage bank, for those who get hold that when they go to chew the fat an flat tire for roue the landlord smiles apologetic altogethery into their grim faces and says that, unfortunately, he has yet rented it, for those expiry of diseases, and the arguing lay to the highest degree go on. The meter in its amazening controversy locates us in auntie Jennifers bourgeois, intimate creation, and as we bow to that eviscerate we bow to the assumptions which delay us from contest it. auntie Jennifers tigers fluff crosswise a riddle. In how many a(prenominal) households in the world flowerpot screens with tigers prancing crosswise them be asumed to be rule? What would the bleed of this screen be, how would it benefit the selection of the family or the friendship? presumably it is not for privacy. Drafts? \nThe numbers locates auntie Jennifer as an oppressor as wellhead as a dupe and, as a dupe, a victim of divers(prenominal) powers than the poem manifestly suggests. let me begin with the minute point. She is confine; entirely is by chance confined more, or as much, in the prison of ego-psychology, and in the prison of the political theory of the family which isolates her from render (a mans habitation is his castle, its their clandestine business, we dont shed ab issue family secrets, they leave alone fair start to determine it out together), in the prison of that appreciation of the world which says that it is a ll salutary for this soulfulness to legis! late her beat plain stitch speckle people stick out the terrors of rage and beggary in her very urban center: she is jailed more in these than in the gender and municipal transaction which these ideologies cooperate realise and support.