The Woman Hanging From The Thirteenth Floor Window

The poem presents a native american woman hanging by her fingers from a window ledge 13 floors above the street.

The woman hanging from the thirteenth floor window.

As she tries to decide whether or not she ll let go she thinks of all the reasons that have led her to consider suicide. A 1982 trip to chicago and a visit to the chicago indian center with its one small room and an old battered rocking chair triggered the poem the woman hanging from the thirteenth floor window. As she struggles to make such a decision she dangles from the window weighing out the pros and cons of holding on. However intricate and elaborate her story may seem though she doesn t actually exist.

She feels broken in several pieces between the two husbands she has had. After reading the woman hanging from the thirteenth floor window the reader may have interpreted that the woman hanging from the thirteenth floor window is debating whether or not she should let go. The woman hanging from the thirteenth floor window march 30 2017 forman stanley harjo joy the woman hanging from the thirteenth floor window slowlander when reading this poem i thought of the famous photograph of a baby sitter falling to her death when a fire escape collapsed during a building fire in boston in 1975. The woman hanging from the 13th floor window is a poem that gives the reader a sense of free will in controlling the character especially in the last few lines of the poem.

The woman hanging from the thirteenth floor window. She is the woman hanging from the 13th floor window. Her hands are pressed white against the concrete moulding of the tenement building. She is a woman of children of the baby carlos and of margaret and of jimmy who is the oldest.

She hangs from the 13th floor window in east chicago with a swirl of birds over her head. Here in a crowded chicago tenement she is out of her natural native place in the. They could be a halo or a storm of glass waiting to crush her. The woman hanging from the thirteenth floor window by joy harjo is a poem about a women who is lost in this big world we live in and trying to find herself while hanging from a thirteenth floor window.

Because the stories the woman has of her past and the things she feels they are able to fit their own life into her. You already know that hanging from the 13th floor window but you don t know why. The woman hanging from the thirteenth floor window is set in east chicago the indian side of town where native americans are isolated from their culture and trapped in an endless.