LOL!! I was going to ask you the same thing about the babysitter! But yeah, that's how I read it. Only I'm thinking that the distinction between Dead and dead is that with Dead you're a ghost.
I'm seeing it like this: the poet got into Bad Stuff as a whaler, came home, married, then cursed his wife to death when she cast a wandering eye--but then she, as a spirit, got him back in the end. And I'm thinking it's her spirit that then, as a snake, kills the twins' dad--maybe seeing too much similarity between their dad and her husband.
How the poet's daughter/babysitter died, though, I'm not clear on. Maybe it's a decision, just committing to being Dead, kind of like the twins do? And also I'm not sure what it signifies that the hat bites her but lets itself be worn by Claire...
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Date: 2009-10-30 02:32 pm (UTC)I'm seeing it like this: the poet got into Bad Stuff as a whaler, came home, married, then cursed his wife to death when she cast a wandering eye--but then she, as a spirit, got him back in the end. And I'm thinking it's her spirit that then, as a snake, kills the twins' dad--maybe seeing too much similarity between their dad and her husband.
How the poet's daughter/babysitter died, though, I'm not clear on. Maybe it's a decision, just committing to being Dead, kind of like the twins do? And also I'm not sure what it signifies that the hat bites her but lets itself be worn by Claire...