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Sunday at the Mintons

• By Sylvia Plath

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Plot Summary

• Elizabeth Minton has returned home to live with
  her older brother, Henry. Henry is very stiff,
  mathematical. He is very concerned with
  directions and punctuality Elizabeth is not. On
  a routine walk along the ocean Elizabeth drops
  her broach pin into the rocky shoreline. The tide
  is coming in fast and strong and Elizabeth is
  worried the waves will sweep her pin away. She
  imagines Henry going onto the rocks to save the
  pin and a great wave crashing and sweeping him
  away.

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Henry V.S Elizabeth

• Appearance
• 1.      Colossus, Ponderous footstep
• Personality
• 2.      Fastidious
• 3.      Controlling
• 4.      Patronizes her 314, sees her as a child
• 5.      Stiff, mathematical, rational, logic,
  mind 314
• 6.      Male reasoning 311, know the exact date,
  direction 313
• Power
• 7.      Pen, book, knowledge 311
• 8.      Position at table authority P.310
• Pick the pin as an heroic act

• Appearance
• 1.      Appearance, feminine
• 2.      Docile
• 3.      Lightly
•  Personality
• 4.      Imaginative, day dreaming
• 5.      Not practical
• 6.      Lost track of time
• Nature, scenery
• 8.      Work, serving her brother 310
• Passive Resistance
• Shut her ears against Hernys rebuke

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Structure

• 1.      Narrates/ creates the story
• 2.      Use her imagination re-create
  reality
• 3.      Plath (a female write)
• 4.      Power relationship
• Tone
• 1.      Irony

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Technique

• 1. Elizabeths pretending submissive
• 2. Eliminate boundary
• 3. Language/ thought ? gaps

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Binary Opposition

• 1.      Female, feminine/ male,
  masculine
• 2.      Appearance
• 3.      Words
• 4.      Works
• 5.      Space kitchen, room, nature/
  study room

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Imageries

• 1.Ocean
• a. Womb
• b. Female space
• c. Fluid, moving
• d.Imagination, unconsciousness, a realm that
  Henry can not enter