Change

Change can be a negative experience and unwillingly forced apon its victims. Texts that explore this concept include “In the Park”, “Sky High” and “The Glass Jar”.
In the poem, “In the Park”, the woman copes with change very badly.
She has become unfashionable, ‘her clothes are out of date’, and she sees her children as almost the enemy. Her ‘two children whine and bicker’ because they are unhappy as she ‘sits in the park’. This is a stark and abrupt sentence, showing her lack of movement and engagement with her children.
When an old love from her past passes by, he doesn’t find her important to him and she ‘[feigns] indifference to that casual nod’. Their relationship has been reduced to banalities ‘How nice, et cetera’. She realises that he’s glad they are not still together, as the change from when she was younger has been a negative one.
She has lost her sense of identity as an individual, and this is reflected in her conversation, where...