The Waste Land Section 2

Blake Fletcher

AP English

The Waste Land Part 2 Summary

            This portion of “The Waste Land” is split up into two parts. The first half of the section shows a beautiful rich speaker who seems to be waiting for a partner. She starts to get impatient or maybe she is just throwing a hissy fit. The lines seem rather wild as she does this. The last few lines of the first half seem to mellow back out. The second half of the poem shows 3 friends in a bar kind of talking smack about their friend who refuses to get her teeth fixed????? Also, it one of them had an abortion because it would have possibly killed her to have another child? The conversation comes to a close because the bartender is closing the bar.