Change in lines
There is a significant change between what appears in the original and what appears in the final draft.
In the original, these lines read,
"'What is that noise now? What is the wind doing?'
Carrying
Away the little light dead people." (V. Eliot 11-13)
However, the modern version reads,
"What is that noise now? What is the wind doing?”
Nothing again nothing."(Eliot 119-20).
The husband in the first version is sarcastic and bleak, as he is in earlier lines when his wife asks him to tell her what he thinks, and his words almost border on the macabre. In the second version, he just wants the wife to be quiet and leave him alone, to stop pestering him with her nervousness.
This website the work of Abigail L. Bunting
In the original, these lines read,
"'What is that noise now? What is the wind doing?'
Carrying
Away the little light dead people." (V. Eliot 11-13)
However, the modern version reads,
"What is that noise now? What is the wind doing?”
Nothing again nothing."(Eliot 119-20).
The husband in the first version is sarcastic and bleak, as he is in earlier lines when his wife asks him to tell her what he thinks, and his words almost border on the macabre. In the second version, he just wants the wife to be quiet and leave him alone, to stop pestering him with her nervousness.
This website the work of Abigail L. Bunting