Summary Of Marks By Linda Pastan

The short narrative poem Marks by author Linda Pastan shows us a family dynamic of abuse towards the speaker of the poem. The narrator of the poem is a mother who is tired of her efforts to be a good wife and mother, being graded on like she is a child in school. So since the speaker of the poem is tired with this life of A’s and B+’s, she decides to drop out of this relationship she has with her husband and her children. Our author, Pastan, describes to us a family that depends on the narrator, the wife, to complete everything without any help and then is graded based on how well she did at these tasks. Since, the mother of the poem is graded on her performance as a caretaker and as a housekeeper, she is treated like she is a child in