Duchess Mistakes

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?

                The Duke and Duchess, obviously, had issues.  In line 22, the Duke says that the Duchess had “a heart that – how shall I say?- too soon made glad”. She could have gone off and met with some other guys or she could have been a heartbreaker, moving on to one guy after the other. The Duke also says in lines 34 and 35, “Who’d stoop to blame This sort of trifling?”. The Duke had felt like he was unimportant to the Duchess. He was convinced that if she was taught that someone or something’s quality disgusts her that they would have been fine.  The Duchess seemed to be a romancer.  Even though she had this promise to the Duke, she did not honor it. She was, as said earlier, going out and “flirting” with other guys. She was “Too easily impressed; she liked whate’er She looked on, and her looks went everywhere!” (lines 23 and 24) The Duke said that these men would get “the approving speech, or blush, at least.” (lines 30 and 31) He also says that she thanked men. The Duke was not happy about this especially because his name being so known. The trivial incidents were the Duchess looking upon other men and other men looking upon her.