Ballad of Lucy Jordan

Lucy Jordan’s morning seems to consist of nothing more than sending her children off to school and kissing her husband goodbye as he leave for work, “Her husband, he was off to work, and the kids were off to school”. After they were gone she was alone. Being alone for hours would sooner or later drive anyone insane. You can only clean the house or rearrange the flowers so much, you cant keep doing as the dirt wont have time to collect. So I guess all she could do was go back to bed. She would lie in her “white suburban bedroom”, white meaning colourless which in my opinion represents boredom, it also shows the way it is meant to appear to be pure, innocent and perfect. She would lie “ ’neath the covers, dreaming of a thousands lovers”. Under the covers she would feel stuffy, with no air to breath causing dizziness, this represents how she is feeling, she wants to break free, she needs air. Her dreaming of a thousands lover is her need for something new in her life, she is bored and wants excitement. She is so out of touch with what is going on around her that “she let the phone keep ringin’ as she sat there softly singin’ pretty nursery rhymes she’d memorised in her daddy’s easy chair” this showed in some sense madness, just sitting there singing while the phone rings but also reminiscing about the good times in her life, when she felt more or less complete and as if her life was perfect.

I think that Lucy Jordan committed suicide by jumping of the roof of her house or some type of building because she felt isolated and trapped; she wanted a life that did not exist. She knew she could no longer fulfil her dream “at the age of 37, she realised she’d never ride through Paris

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