There are many different ways to approach a piece of literature. A good way to start is to get an understanding of the piece. There are different strategies to reading drama, fiction, and poetry. Each of the strategies are there to enhance your understanding of the piece by discussing a particular part of it (Meyer, 2003). Psychological strategies are strategies based heavily on the idea of the existence of a human unconscious. Psychological approaches to literature draw on Sigmund Freud’s psychoanalytic theories and other theories to more fully understand the writer, text, and reader. These approaches are used to explore the symbolic meaning of events and the motivations of the writers and the characters. …show more content…
Every day she would brush her hair in the late afternoon sun. She would briefly see her husband and son and night. One night she told her husband that she could no longer see the boy, so the boy and husband slipped notes to her under the door. Then one night when she notes were slipped to her, she went to the corner of the room to get away from them, like she couldn’t stand the notes. Then one day the husband and son came home to find that woman had made five loaves of bread, ham, turkey, three different pies, the boy’s favorite custard, two weeks of fresh laundry, and other things were made for them. The husband goes to her room only to find that she is dead. I believe that she had killed herself because it became too much for her to handle even though she wasn’t really interacting with them at all. The first sentence says that “there was a wife and mother once too many times.” I believe that this means that she shouldn’t have been a wife or a mother to begin