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The Dumka Analysis

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Memories from the past are influential to our present and future. In “The Dumka,” B.H. Fairchild vividly illustrates the contrasting images that are abundant in the couples’ life. Their lively and eventful past is contrasted to their slow and still present. The couple sits rigidly together, looking “straight ahead,” as they listen to music. They “sit quietly” as the music entwines with their memories, brining forth images of the “dust storms of the thirties,” and of skies smeared “green with doom,” warning of danger to come. The couple experiences poverty during the war, but celebrate wealth in the post-war economy. As the war hits home, they reside in a “white frame rent house” and must wait in “bread lines” with other struggling Americans.

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