Diary Of A Piano Tutler's Wife Analysis

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In all relationships and situations, we find that restrictions pop up and fade at the most inconvenient times. We can’t control those we love and we certainly cannot change them. All we can do is sit back and hope one day, they will see the truth and we will support them. Throughout Wilmer Mills’ poem “Diary of a Piano-Tuner’s Wife”, the speaker demonstrates several situations where her love and commitment has been pushed to its limits and has been questioned. She is pushed beyond reasonable distances and wants to help but is stuck and can’t provide reasons for what is happening. I can relate to this since the day I turned 8 and everything changed. I suppose we have to accept what has happened is over and done, and hope that one day, someone …show more content…

Sometimes, helping people is more unrewarding than we would like to think. I believe the speaker relates to this statement a lot throughout the play as she struggles with her famiy and those she loves more than she could ever explain. The first example is when the speaker was faced with the challenge of her daughter cutting ties with her parents. She lost all communication and has evidently changed as a person to the extent that her mother would no longer recognize who she has become or who she was. In order to help her daughter and herself recognize and solve this tragedy, she tries to uncover the truth about why this has occured and how it has changed the speaker and her daughter. However, as soon as she attempts to uncovers that truth, her daughter takes it and recovers it- as shown through the metaphor of her stacking the stones along the side of the fence and off the garden. The second example is when she is faced with the circumstance of her husband not understanding her feelings and not being able to control what is does and does not care about. The speaker is faced with the problem that being mean to her husband is the only way she can open his eyes and make him realize what he is doing to her and his family. Like most people , however, the speaker does not enjoy being rude or mean to her family. The third example is when her daughter’s life got out of control, she forgot and/or ignored everything she was taught as a child which, obviously, caused her to think irrationally and changed who she was as a person. With the struggle of your child leaving you, changing who they are and cutting communication ties with her caused her life to change. Her loyalties, life, love split into pieces realizing this is now her reality and there is not much she can do other that accept it and move on. We

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