Poem Analysis: Miss Hagstrom

From here on, Button Mulvanney becomes a traveler. She would stay somewhere just long enough, and when things started to get too settled and routine, she would leave. When she was staying with the poet Miss Hagstrom as her caregiver and archivist, she feels content being just that, but when the older woman tells Marianna that she knows she is more than what she lets on, it is time to run. The woman tells Marianne that she would love to have her as her personal assistant to run her company with her, and that she could be so much greater. The poet attempts to form somewhat of a motherly bond with Marianne, and because of this, Marianne went away, never speaking to Miss Hagstrom again. The town of Sykesville is the place where Marianne stayed …show more content…
Some of them are instantaniously, others occur later on. In the case of her father, Michael Senior, when he learns of Marianne's rape he acts on emotion when he drives that night to the Lundt house and comfronts Mort Lundt, the father, and Zachary Lundt. He acts brashly, calling Zachary names and when he appears at the top of the stairs, he bounds up grabbing and cursing at him. Mort Lundt and Eddy Harris, a deputy that was at the house due to Corinne calling him, intervended, but it ended with Mort being struk in the face and Zachary having several cracked ribs and a broken nose. Michael Senoir is arrested on assult but it released with no charges pressed. From then on, Michael reverts back to alchol and violance, deciding to ingnore is daughter than stepping up to protect and comfort her. Drunk and sick in the Wolf's Head Lake, Michael Senior tells Corinne that they deserve better in this town than to be ignored and hidden, that he was a coward for not being able to protect his little girl, and wishes for her to leave so he wouldn't have to lay eyes on her again. From this point on, Michael Senior goes through a downfall of violence, turning the rape and people's judgement into their judgement againest him, and running way from his family which he eventually