The poem "Next Day" is about a women who

There are many reasons that the woman is afraid of becoming old. She attends a funeral of a friend and maybe she feels like she is next in line for death. As they story progresses she feels confused with her life and may be is afraid of what's to come for the Next Day.

realizes that she is getting old, and is afraid of what's to come, as she grows older. The setting of the story starts out in a grocery store. Jarrell probably picks this setting because usually you find older people there. Most mothers and fathers usually shop for the family's groceries. As the women shops for food she describes herself as wise, she is troubled at what she has become. I do not believe wisdom is bad but it is referred to as being old, and maybe that's why she is so troubled. When she was younger she describes herself as miserable, pretty, and poor, she had wished to have a husband, h

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