Summary, Part 2 of The Wasteland

This section is about a woman sitting in a room looking at a painting. The painting is depicting the rape of Philomela. Then it moves into the second section, there is dialogue, most likely toward the narrator. She talks about how her nerves are bad and that she wants the person to stay with her. In section three the speaker is talking to another person (I am guessing a woman) in what we can guess is a bar, because at the end of this section she says good bye and calls people by their names at the bar. This implies that she is most likely a regular at the bar since she knows everyone, which reinforces the idea of the wasteland. The woman got money to go get new teeth but instead she most likely went out and bought drugs to stop an unwanted pregnancy. She is 31 and has already has 5 kids, because during this time wives are captive in their own body and marriage and they really didn’t get to choose anything for themselves. This woman looks miserable and dead. The last line is an allusion to hamlet, Ophilia says this line before she goes and kills herself, because of a failed relationship.