Mrs. Sibley
As I stated in my last post, mystery seems to fill the town of Spoon River. While being introduced to numerouscharacters, it’s hard to keep tract of all of their stories, love lives, and secrets. It’s also clear that many characters prefer to show rather than tell. This is interesting because within a lot of the poems, it seems as if the characters are afraid to be blatant. Mrs. Sibley’spoem is an example of a character who seems to seclude herself. As her husband explains, she has committed adultery, which gives her a reason to seclude herself. However, within her poem, she has a tasteful way of making herself seem less evil then she’s portrayed by her husband. She somehow expresses her independence and it’s clear that her and her husband were not very compatible. At the end of her poem she says ” My secret: Under a mound that you shall never find”. For some reason, I feel as if she’s trying to tease us as readers. Her character is appealing to me and although she’s committed adultery, she still seems very confident in herself.
