Tru-Gan-Inny

In reading this poem, it is obvious that the mood in this poem was very sympathetic. Truganinny's dying wish was to be buried in the outback or at sea and instead her husband had her stuffed and put on display for over eighty years just to make some money. This wasn't fair to his wife who thought that her husband really cared about her and cared about her feelings. He obviously didn't put himself in her shoes and thought about how he would feel if he was stuffed and put on display. His actions towards his wife were very disrepectful and should have thought better to give her the proper burial that she had wanted. Reading some of the words in this poem like "put me under the bulk of a mountain or in the distant sea" showed how much she did not want to be put on dsplay. She would be open up to almost every other option just not the one that went through. The worst part is that she is dead and she can't stop her husband from doing anything that he wants.

I feel like there were other ways that the husband could've made money other than putting his wife on display. If money was the only thing that was on his mind, he could've put his wife's clothes on display or different items that she owned that could've worth a lot. He could've at least made if wife rest in peace rather than putting her on display for the whole world to see. This whole poem is about how she did not like being a show and how she is a person with feelings not some display act. In my opinion, any husband that would do that to his wife does not have a heart and never loved her in the first place. This is what she was afraid of that her husband never loved her and that she wanted to remember her husband as somebody who did. In the end it showed what kind of a man he really was. (Mason post 9)