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Analysis Of Rose Richards Luvandwar

The Truth Behind Lies, an Analysis of Rose Richards, "Luvandwar"

In Rose Richards Luvandwar the relationships between people and the falsities and emotions that come into play are seen in a clearly negative light, the pessimistic attitude the narrator has towards human emotions is illustrated in the imagery Richards uses in the story. The twelve hours in which the reader comes to these conclusions is the same twelve hours which she comes to terms with her mother's death, seeing the truth through the smoke of a disaster. In the closing paragraphs this imagery culminates in a moment where all the ideas are summed up to conclude the views of the narrator and final freedom derived from this. In the analysis of these last two paragraphs the ideas and imagery will be critically examined to show how they bring light to the false lives we lead and resolution to the story.

One of the main ideas the story adopts, is how age is part of a mental change in attitude and a culmination of experiences that physiologically changes a person and their perspectives. The constant reference to ashes is used to symbolize the end of a life and the despair that end brings with it, the narrator's perspective becomes dull and bleak ever-since the day her mother died. "I was initiated into adulthood with my mother's ashes" Her bleak outlook is furthermore accentuated by the way in which she believes that at the moment of her mothers death, time and therefore her life, ended and the new one that sprung forth was very different from the one that ended that day. "Last year on a Smokey night like this, time ended, and begun". It was also at that moment that she believes the realization of the falsities of love (luv) and the harshness (war) came to reside in her heart. In the last few paragraphs these concerns are reiterated by the reference to "aeons" which singularly is an immensely long period of time, the narrator uses it in the plural to describe how the changes that resulted...