Crime - “Unfinished Business”
The speaker’s wife and daughter are fatalities of aggression-related crime: “It’s a week since they beat up my wife,/put five holes in my daughter. I know who they are. I know why.” The speaker is conversant with the personalities who offended his family; violence transpired in the backdrop of rain. Crime initiates the “Unfinished Business” for the speaker has not exonerated the criminals.
‘High Culture’ Art - “The Doll’s House”
“The Doll’s House” presents a grand home that endorses ‘high culture.’ The parts of the house that are conspicuous comprise of the ‘high frosted ceilings’, ‘steep stairways’, the friezes in the ceilings, the bedroom, the library, the Middle passage, and the ‘hardcovered doll’. All the furnishings in the house entreaty to all senses for they are “modelled on high art.” The ‘statue of Eve’ is a sculpture within the house that amplifies to the sovereignty of the house. Furthermore, the speaker composes ‘high culture’ music “by echoing design.” Simulations in the house meet the threshold of classicism.
