22) Explain the significance of stanzas five and six of "Red Riding Hood."
The significance of stanzas five and six in the poem Red Riding Hood is that both of them had a form of deception. Stanza 5 example of deception is with the eyeless beetle finding its way through the maze and with stanza 6 the deception is believing that nothing can haunt a new house, he believed if he built a summer house on Cape Ann he would be able to get away from his mother and her departed soul.
Good work, Richard! Also, these stanzas are autobiographical; Sexton uses the "I" first-person perspective, unlike the first stanzas. Why do you think she suddenly switches perspective like this?
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