3. The Duke eliminated (divorced? sent to a convent? had executed or poisoned?) his last duchess because (he felt) she undervalued him and treated him much as she treated other men. Which trivial incidents in particular seem to have produced this response in the Duke?

               

         In the poem, the Duke says that his Duchess was not appreciative of his “gift of a nine- hundred- years” and that she “flirted” with a lot of men. He mentions how the two would go out in public and she would have disgraceful behavior when it came to how much attention she was paying towards men besides her husband. You can gather that the Duchess could have been having a couple affairs and she wasn't ashamed of them at all. It also seem like the Duke had known of what she was doing long ago because it was easy for him to shake off the fact that his late wife was suddenly dead (or so we think). As you read on into the poem you begin to feel like the Duke was the reason for the Duchess early dismissal.

~Avery C.