Question

How does the woman in “Mirror” feel about aging?

a.She has a difficult time accepting it.

b.She has accepted it gracefully.

c.She is not sure how she feels about it.

d.She has no feeling one way or the other about it.

Answer 1

A.

Answer 2

A.

Answer 3

a. See excerpt of the second stanza below:

Now I am a lake. A woman bends over me,
Searching my reaches for what she really is.
Then she turns to those liars, the candles or the moon.
I see her back, and reflect it faithfully.
She rewards me with tears and an agitation of hands.
I am important to her. She comes and goes.
Each morning it is her face that replaces the darkness.
In me she has drowned a young girl, and in me an old woman
Rises toward her day after day, like a terrible fish.

-"Mirror", by Sylvia Plath