Mirror Ruby Stewart

The poem the Mirror is about beauty standards. She talks about how, as a mirror, she shows exactly what she sees and she tells no lies. The narrator states, “I am not cruel, only truthful.” When the narrator becomes a lake, she can also only show truth and reflection of one’s self. The Mirror represents the truth of who we actually are, even if society has portrayed us as or forced us to be someone else.

Anderson tells a whole story through one object; a mirror. Melinda refuses to look into her own reflection after the incident at the party, she is always hiding or covering her mirrors. Hiding her reflection symbolizes Melinda hiding her problems. Looking into the mirror, she stares right at her flaws, bringing her

While in a house, the man and the boy find a mirror which the man almost shoots until the boy reminds him that it is only their reflection. The mirror in the passage represents the conflict of the apocalypse and shows how the conflict affects the characters. It shows that there isn’t much trust between people as there was before the apocalypse. For instance, in The Road it says “They came upon themselves in a mirror and he almost raised the pistol. It’s us, Papa, the boy whispered. It’s us” (McCarthy 132). This evidence shows that the man doesn’t trust anything anymore

To start off is the theme of social anxiety in Sylvia Plath’s Mirror. This poem is about a mirror that spends most of it’s days reflecting the wall, but occasionally, it is the friend of a man or woman. One day, a woman comes to stare into its depths,

Ruby is a young but wise country girl that has had to rely on her own

For the poem “I look into the mirror,” I have chosen to write it from Johnny’s perspective, because I felt like he had one of the most depth histories of any of the characters. He had suffered physical and mental abuse from his parents and the socs.

I’m not entirely sure what attracted my attention to the mirror on the wall. I’m not saying that if I hadn’t seen my reflection on that fateful morning that things would have gone differently in the end. All I know is that until the day I die, I will never sleep again. In revealing the mystery behind the final hours of Lilith’s life, the old, cracked mirror that has hung in my bedroom for as long as I can remember made one thing perfectly clear. I, a simple sketch artist, had killed the only love I will ever know.

She also exhibits the sins of greed and pride. She shows herself to be a very greedy person in relation to personal belongings as well as people themselves. One of the first things that she chooses to worry about once she is settled down is a mirror so she can check her appearance and make sure that she

Reflection: the poem was interesting, I couldn’t relate to it. It was short and I liked that. The speaker seems like she has issues with self-esteem.

She was found in a bad place. She was a mirror - a mirror that which countless fists had punched and shattered into shards of glass that reflected only bits and piece of who she was. Her pieces for discarded all over the floor, stepped on, ignored, left to be broken into slivers and ground to dust.

A mirror only reflects who people have become on appearance, but whispers to the psyche of its audience to reveal who they desire to be in their fantasy. A mirror plays a rather important role in most of our mundane lives routinely used to fix erratic hair, oddly looking at ourselves brushing our teeth, and for some, correcting the red mountain flaws against the skin. To a ballerina a mirror represents a sense of alignment with one’s body. To Nina Sawyers, perfecting her technique is important and the only way to fix her mistakes is if she turns her life upside down. Sawyers practices so often she starts to take notice of her evolution from childhood to adulthood through a mirror.

In the first stanza the mirror defines itself and states its purpose. It describes itself as “exact” and having “no preconceptions” meaning it

Why is the mirror so important to her? Do you think the mirror might have any symbolic significance? If so, what?

The narration of Mirror is not human, but a mirror that witnesses sorrow and despair of a young girl transforming into a woman. The mirror neither judges nor lies. It does not shed opinions but rather respects the ethical meaning of the truth. The mirror shows what is respectfully present. “I am not cruel, only truthful.” (Plath 5). The speaker is not talking to one person but is messaging the world, that a mirror will not show what you want. A mirror represents the truth. It doesn’t hide what is shown but embraces the person looking into the mirror, that whoever is looking in, is born this way, and should not stray from it.

She had a beautiful long red hair, and tiny green eyes. Whenever she pondered on the mirror, her eyes rolled to gaze on her vase instead of herself. It was a dark vase, empty but colorful, it appeared more glamorous through the mirror and less so without it. The mirror itself is part of what she inherited from her mother, as the vase. In the mornings, she could not spare the look of the vase and her visage; melancholy looking, dim, and more grim than it ever was.