Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose
After reading this short story, I was wondering what the loolies represented for the narrator of Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose? I found the story rather intriguing because it is about a deceased man writing to his wife. I believe he might be caught in a place where he has to think about the sins he committed against his wife. What do you think is the significance of the man being in a beach location? Is it possibly that he needs to be bored and at restful place in order to have time to think about his past life?
posted by Anonymous at 7:58 PM
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I do think that the man is in a sort of purgatory. He says he is doing penance, and from a Catholic perspective this was my conclusion. I figured that he was at the beach because that's one place he remembered spending time alone with his wife. I wonder sometimes that if purgatory and hell do exist, if they are individual to the people confined there.
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