Roselily | Personal Spirits
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following essay, Brent discusses the theme of ‘‘personal
spirits’’ in Walker’s story.
The short story ‘‘Roselily,’’ by Alice Walker, is written as the internal monologue of a woman, Roselily, while she stands at the altar taking her wedding vows. Through this internal monologue, Roselily expresses a strong current of ambivalence about the marriage that is taking place. Furthermore, as she hears each phrase of the wedding vows, spoken by the preacher, Roselily interprets it in her own way, as an expression of her true feelings about the impending marriage.
A closer look at one of the opening epigraphs to Women in Love and Trouble, the short story...
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