This Cody

This Cody Compari give-and-take examine What I demanded, I k today now, was just to say our watchwords name extinct loud. The crisp c and the rolling o and the repulse flick of the tongue for the dy (Anderson 5). This quote comes from the story This Cody by Lauri Anderson. It states how the cashier misses being able to say her sons name for he died non to a fault long ago because he was kidnapped in a poseing area. The economise feels as though his married woman is a shame to him and she believes that the reason he does not look at her the same anyto a greater extent is because the son looked exactly exchangeable her.Every while he looks at her face he sees his son and misses him so much. Although the author dialog active many different types of scenes that the wife talks about in this story, Lauri Anderson portrays the narrator as a static character. I say she is a fixed character because her beliefs stay the same passim the entire passage. For instance, she thinks t he dam up is going to break constantly, she thinks her maintain does not esteem her anymore because it was her fault for their son dying and also she tells the cops three absolute face lies about her son.The narrator has dreams about the dam breaking throughout the entire short story. In these dreams, the author has the narrator use mental imagery to describe her dreams and how intense they were. For example, I down dreams about it. They all engender the same focussing. We wake to water two inches deep and the dogs whining, thorned into their corners. whole night we sweep the water out, entirely by morning, were walk waist-deep in the cold, fishless shallows, filling our buckets (Anderson 4).The river that used to go through their ara is not being stopped by the dam and the wife gives the river and the dam human characteristics, which is personification, and says that the river is mad and wants to destroy everything that is now in its path. What I have learned is that when the river returns, it wint be the same river. All that date pushing against a wall will make you desperate. All that time, you wont care about this tidy home or that. If you are the river, you will say, bespeak me a thing I heapt destroy, and if you are the dam, and you are tired of pushing back, you will secretly want to let go (Anderson 6-7).The narrator also says Sometimes I can hear a humming that seems to come from two takes at at a time from far down the creek and also somewhere inside me, as if the dam is as much aware of me as I am of it. As if I need only to step onto the porch and open my fortification (12). This is an example of personification. The wife thinks that the dam knows as much about her as she knows about the dam. She thinks that the dam is going to spill all of her secrets and make everything worse than what it is now between her husband and herself.The dam is also an example of a symbol because it represents the relationship between the wife and the husband. The dam is holding back every drop it was built to contain. Its concrete walls are eight feet thick. It is designed to collapse in and not out (Anderson 16). All of the lies that she told the practice of law and her husband are hidden behind the dam and the heartbeat that the dam breaks is the moment when the entire world will know that she was selfish. I told myself that he was fine, the greenness was safe. I told myself I deserved a few minutes just with the sun and with the trees moving overhead (Anderson 16).She was selfish in thinking that she infallible time to rest her eyes in a public place instead of looking out for where her son was and knowing exactly where he was. Instead of thinking he is just in superstar of his hiding places or sitting on the ground right in prior of her, she should have been going everywhere that he went. The wifes husband did not start getting mad at her and being stimulate with her presence until their son died. The wife lied to the cops three times when their son died so that the blame was not on her and the husband would not snuff it her. On the day I muddled our son, I told three lies. First, I said he had only been missing for fifteen minutes, when it was really more like an hour. Fifteen minutes still sounded hopeful, I image (Anderson 6). She thought that the lie would make herself feel better and it did for a while but she eventually started feeling bad about lying to the cops about something that was her fault. The indorsement lie I told on that day I lost my son was about a hat. I told the detective he was wearing one-a dirty baseball cap with an orange fish on the front.I said this because it was a hot day, nearly ninety degrees in the city, and when we arrived at the park, I cut all of the kids were wearing hats and even tiny pairs of glasses (Anderson 10-11). The wife did not want to seem like a bad mother because she lost her own son, although later it would be established that she was , so she lied to the cops about her own son wearing a hat and watched the man spell it down on his notepad without even flinching or showing regret on her face. There were a number of things that the narrator confesses to the audience about what she did not tell the cops at the end of the story. Ive never said that I leaned my head back and closed my eyes. Ive never said that that Id forgotten my sunglasses, and that the sun threw dappled shadows on my eyelids. No one knows that for maybe half an hour before I faded into sleep, I listened to my son playing nearby with another child, the sound like birds chasing individually other in the trees (Anderson 15). This quote is an example of dramatic irony in that the husband does not know that it was the wifes fault for their son being kidnapped. We the audience knows that she was the reason that her son was stolen at a park and kidnapped and had God know what done to him.The narrator also uses imagery to show how much the husband change d the way he looked and how different and difficult her biography is now that their son died. Some days I dont recognize him. Hes grown out his beard, and the paunch I so lovingly stroked is now all muscle, his abdominals like flat stones voluptuary atop one another (Anderson 4). The narrators husband changed the way he looked after the death. Im different two. Our dogs, two thoroughbred Heelers Brian insisted we buy to go with our new life, wont come when I call. The chickens peck my head when I reach for the eggs. The garden dies all at once, overnight.Last night, I found a scorpion on my pillow, his dancers build up poised to strike (Anderson 4). This quote states how much the place that she is living now does not like her and she feels as though they are all out to get her, including her own husband. The author of the story This Cody, Lauri Anderson, uses different types of figurative expression and imagery to portray the narrator as a static character. The wife is constantl y thinking that the dam is going to break and all of her secrets will be revealed to her husband and the rest of the world and she everyone would know how bad of a mother she is.Throughout the story the narrator believes that her husband does not love her anymore because he blames her for his sons death. He can not contribute to look at her for their son looked exactly like her and every time he looks at her he sees his dead son. Also she continuously tells lies to the police and her husband about their son and what really happened that day at the park when he went missing. Works Cited Anderson, Lauri. This Cody. The Greensboro Review. 91. Spring (2012) 4-16. Print.