The Victims by Sharon Olds

This is a 26 line poem, written in imabic and free verse. The author uses an unnamed first girl, who is talking to her dad. The persona is teling her dad that she is happy that her mom left him. This is imposed in the first line. The persona implies that her and the other chldren were happy and did not like living woht their dad. The mom was beaten by the dad and so were the children. this implied in lines 1-2 she took it and took it. and line 16. we pricked with her.
The persona tells us that her dad was fired and when she heard the news she was hapy, there was obviously hatred towards the dad, because there were so many little details that the persona talks about, details that make her imagine how much he is suffering. She hates him so much that even little things that make him mad or sad makes the children glad.

The part where the persona talks about the shoes, having a nose, makes me thinks that for the persona to think that the shoes had noses, meant that she had to be looking at them relly close, maybe the dad kicked her in the face many times and she saw the reflection of her nose. and therefore she hates the shoes.
In the last paragraph the persona talks about uses methapors when he compares alll of the thinkgs that once had power and now are worth nothing to the world to his dad. I think the persona is a girl because i think that if it were a guy he would not have payed attention to little details or he would have talked about a confrontation with his dad, when the beating was going on.