Analysis Of Scrubbing Up Dust
In “Scrubbing Up Dust”, Billie Jo sees a boy, Jim Martin, scrubbing dust. As she walks home, she realizes that her house is a mess and she thinks about what her mom would have done and how the job now falls to her since her mom is dead. In the poem there was a hyperbole declares that the cleaning is, “knuckle-breaking work” (110. Hesse) and her hands aren’t meant for that. There was a simile in the poem stating that her mom would “break that mud like the farmers break sod” (109). On page 110 there is a tone change when she signals the word “but.” This is shown in the quote when Billie Jo states, “It isn’t the work I hate, the knuckle-breaking work of beating mud out of every blessed thing, but every day my fingers ache so bad.” (110) This shows