The house is adamant that it is “not your mother” (1) and is emphasized by the caesura. The house does not feel the love or natural attachment to its occupants as a mother has to her children. The house “will not be moved by grief or gratitude” (2); in fact it will not be moved by anything, as suggested by the alliteration joining the two antithetical emotions. The extent of the house is so severe that even men who are so helpless that they “weep like orphans at my [its] door” (3) cannot disarm its ruthlessness. The men are portrayed, through the simile, as those who have been deprived of protection, security, and family. Yet the house is so harsh that its is not willing to provide shelter and comfort in the absence of both as these are not seen as valuable things to the house. Many immigrants who come to America become orphans of some sort because many they have left their parents in their mother country in order to come to a foreign country with unknown prospects. Regardless of their lonely, unfortunate circumstances, America does not want to accept them as its own and provide the some level
The house is adamant that it is “not your mother” (1) and is emphasized by the caesura. The house does not feel the love or natural attachment to its occupants as a mother has to her children. The house “will not be moved by grief or gratitude” (2); in fact it will not be moved by anything, as suggested by the alliteration joining the two antithetical emotions. The extent of the house is so severe that even men who are so helpless that they “weep like orphans at my [its] door” (3) cannot disarm its ruthlessness. The men are portrayed, through the simile, as those who have been deprived of protection, security, and family. Yet the house is so harsh that its is not willing to provide shelter and comfort in the absence of both as these are not seen as valuable things to the house. Many immigrants who come to America become orphans of some sort because many they have left their parents in their mother country in order to come to a foreign country with unknown prospects. Regardless of their lonely, unfortunate circumstances, America does not want to accept them as its own and provide the some level