Afternoons - Larkin

• What's the context?

  • POV of a middle-aged woman with children
  • Society forcing conformity on women
  • Observations of everyday relationships
  • Observed life rather than lived it
  • Didn't marry/ have children
• The leaves fall in ones and twos
• An estateful of washing
• the albums, lettered Our Wedding, lying near the television
• lovers are all in school
• Finding more unripe acorns
• Something is pushing them to the side of their own lives