Lot's Wife
Writers often find significance in their work that others might not see. One can explore the same account written in different forms of literature. Often, there will be similarities found in the comparison of both works. The significance of the mother's painting, "Lot's Wife", in Amy Bloom's "Hold Tight" can be compared to the meaning associated with Anna Ahkmatova's poem "Lot's Wife" in the sense that both women find importance in the destroyed city of Sodom, the physical pain of dying, and the story of Lot's wife herself. The destroyed city of Sodom is significant to both Amy Bloom and Anna Ahkmatova because it symbolizes the destroyed lives of the mother and of Lot's wife. In "Hold Tight" the portion of the mother's painting that is the destroyed city of Sodom is described by Amy Bloom as "bright and grim, were the sticky little flames of the destroyed city, nothing, not even rubble, around it." This is symbolic of the Mother's destroyed life because she was dying and her husband and daughter were becoming more dysfunctional the closer to dying she became. Bloom writes "more often than not, we'd end up back in the brown fog of his study, me taking a last few puffs with my legs thrown over his big leather armchair,
The mother uses her painting and the meaning of the story of Lot's Wife to convey the way that she is feeling to her daughter. She is trying to show her that it is not such a sad painting and that there is a story behind what looks to be a very sad event. As in her own life, her dying is not such a sad thing. She is trying to tell her daughter that there is so much more to be seen in the painting. That Lot's Wife isn't really a sad person and her story not so tragic. Both writers find meaning in the physical pain of dying because it symbolizes the mother and Lot's wife having to leave behind the lives that they love. In "Hold Tight" Amy Bloom writes a passage of the Mother and daughter having a conversation about her painting "Lot's Wife". "It's so sad", I complained to my mother." my father sipping his bourbon and staring out at the backyard." The husband and daughter are dealing with things by smoking pot and drinking, living in a nonexistence, while the mother is dying in her bedroom. Their family life as they know it is pretty much destroyed. Amy Bloom and Anna Ahkmatova both used the story of Lot's Wife to add significance to their literary works "Hold Tight" and "Lot's Wife". Both used the same elements of Lot's Wife's story to add meaning to their characte
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Approximate Word count = 871
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)
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