Middlesex+(125-148)

Definitions: kolyvo-cooked grains mixed with honey. This is a dish left at a graveside and is also eaten at the meal following the funeral. []

Mimnermos-is a Greek elegiac poet from either Colophon or Smyrna in Ionia who wrote from 630 to 600 B.C. He was strongly influenced by the work of Homer yet he wrote short poems. He is chiefly known as a love poet. He had a strong influence on both Hellenistic poets as well as Roman poets. elegiac poet-compositions that are like elegies or to a specific poetic meter used in Classical elegies. This meter has two lines; it is a couplet with one line of dactylic hexameter and one line of dactylic pentameter. [] []

8. Desdemona is definitely in a liminal state throughout this entire chapter. She is constantly struggling with the criminality involved in her feelings for Lefty. While she loves him on a very deep and real level as not only a brother but also a husband, she is constantly plagued by the potential consequences that go along with their relationship and their romance. When she becomes pregnant with their second child, she is constantly haunted by Dr. Philobosian's suggestion that incestuous relations can lead to birth defects in children. Throughout the chapter she goes back and forth between true love and the pressure of social norms and it is because of this that Lefty and Desdemona's marriage begins to suffer.

5. I really pity Desdemona. She really is struggling with all of the new changes in her life and her husband doesn't really consider her or her feelings. She seems to be the only one struggling with the idea of an incestuous relationship and its consequences. Additionally, once her children are born she is relegated strictly to the kitchen: the woman's sphere, the woman's world. When Lefty pressures her to have sex and she refuses, her husband reinforces the gender roles on an even larger scale, preventing Desdemona from entering the sala. Her life is quickly becoming more and more isolated as her relationship with her husband is deteriorating. She has alot going on between the move to America, the potential consequences of an incestuous relationship and a failing marriage that it is hard not to pity her.