Why the Duchess Left the Duke



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 trivial incident allowed gave the duke to think this statement is true is that he said she liked whatever, whoever (any man or woman) or even any stranger, and she ranks men. The duke said that she was too easily impressed with everything. I don’t think that the duke liked it very much because he loved his last duchess and he didn’t know what she liked the most. It would make me mad if I didn’t know what my wife liked the most out of all that I give to her. If I get too impressed about something or someone that would be pathetic because a wife to a man means everything to them. I think that the duchess should have told him how she felt when she received things from him and what she likes the most. The second point is that she likes everybody that she knows so it’s like having a relationship with your best friend and most people would think that the man or the wife is crazy. The duke said the she thanked men as good as him. To me that mean that she is super friendly and she enjoys the presents of all men. That would make me really mad because she is the dukes wife and it looks as if she is having relationships with other people. The third reason is that she ranks men. She is friends with all men but she ranks them in a certain way the she sees fit and I think that she would rank her close friends and her husband near the top. But we were never told how she ranked them so we don’t know how close many other people were close to the duke. Those are three trivial incidents in the poem My Last Duchess.   

- Alex Renner