"Ever After" by Joyce Sutphen caused the most curiosity for me. The author never tells the readers what happened to their marriage that caused a divorce. This makes me really want to know what happened. I know the author just wants to leave her audience with some kind of mystery, but I don't want to wonder. I want to know exactly what happened.
The author questions what she means to her ex-husband now that they are not together anymore. If she's asking this, she obviously still cares about what he thinks about her. So maybe she did something to make her husband divorce her. Did she cheat on him? Were they in a fight?
The two were obviously once in love if they had gotten married. So something really big must have happened to make all that love just stop. At the end of the poem, the author talks about their wedding cake and how their were so many layers over and over again. Which makes me think she is implying that maybe they were fighting a lot and there were many different layers to their marriage. Maybe the layers symbolize fights they had. It was one fight, and then the next, and then back to the first one again. But I still have to wonder what exactly were they fighting about?
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