Goblin Market | Themes and Characters
Goblin Market includes only a few characters: the goblin men and Laura and Lizzie, late-adolescent sisters. The poem also mentions Jeanie, who died after eating goblin fruit, and Laura's and Lizzie's husbands and children in later life.
Laura and Lizzie see the goblin men "hobbling down the glen" each morning and evening crying, "Come buy, come buy." The goblins themselves are thoroughly repulsive, but their words are "sugar-baited." The goblins tempt young maidens to try their evil fruit "in tones as smooth as honey." Further, the goblin men describe their wares in...
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