Sorting Laundry
Elisavietta Ritchie
Laundry is a routine task, and frankly mundane at that. However, the speaker takes joy in doing the laundry because she gets to spend time with her husband's clothes (just bear with me). Folding his clothes she gets to soak in all the memories she has seeing him in those clothes. It's as if their clothes are them, living their lives together. It's a surprisingly sweet thought, but such a sweet thought eventually causes the speaker to wonder what would happen if her joy ever ended. When the speaker says "If you were to leave me, if I were to fold only my own clothes" (Ritchie 842), it shows a moment of terror within her. She's so scared because, as things are now, their love could never be broken, but she's sane enough to know that sometimes things don't work out. Society's thinking that people make the wrong decision 50% of the time when dealing with marriage has gotten into her head, and frightened. The fright somewhat displays how strong their love truly is. Such fright would only come from a separation after so many years of such true love.
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