A Bit of Sanity?

As Akshay said, the story hit on every single stereotype society has a white trash and it created a perfect image of what that would be like. For me though, the most interesting part of the short story came when they went to Mrs. Peacock’s house. Despite all the terrible things Mrs. Peacock made the children do and despite how uncivilized she seemed, her half of the house was somewhat humane. When the narrator was describing the back yard and garden it actually sounded like something that was relatively civilized and sane. That was the biggest surprise for me was that after all Mrs. Peacock did and after all the horrific things she did to the children, we got to see that she has a somewhat compassionate side.

The narrator also spoke briefly on the baby dolls that Mrs. Peacock had all over her room. Again, I feel like this is an attempt by the author to make her seem a little less cruel but at the same time she is depicted as insane due to the volume of dolls. The narrator also notes that Mrs. Peacock calls the “doll babies” which I suspect was an attempt by the author to bring her back down to her white trash level before she started torturing the children again. Overall the visit to Mrs. Peacock’s house was extremely interesting for me, I was a short break from her shell, eventually however, it lead back into the same old lazy poor white trash ways.